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My buddy is handy and has a few gadgets he's made over the years. This started as an FN Magnum Mauser. We are going to fire up the steamer (one of these days) to rust blue a few projects.

dpcd did the metal work, Doug barrel, sights, etc.. It's spot on with scope and irons.

Buddy found the stock on the net. It was to have a neidner buttplate but the stock is too wide so he went with a rubber recoil pad that he curved to fit. The widows peak is filled with black epoxy.

Ahlmans checkering.






 
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I like it !
 
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I like it too; not sure about that pad though!
Beautiful checkering.
 
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It was to have a neidner buttplate but the stock is too wide so he went with a rubber recoil pad that he curved to fit.


That's easy enough to fix if you are handy with a rasp!
 
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He didn't want to thin out the butt. The stock was a left over from gunstock.com (GAG?)
 
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nice checkering -- what caliber?

stock looks like a great american gunstocks' oberndorf classic, but, honestly, it looks way better than what Henry used to make , and way WAY WAY more svelte - GAG's stocks were notorious for being THICK, some say like 1/8 too wide on both sides .. I know i have spent hours with rasp and file on them

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I stopped off at Ahlman's last week and asked if Carol was there, apparently she no longer is.


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375 HH
 
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That is very bad news; she told me last fall that she was going to retire but she has said that before.
I have a stock ready for them; I hope she trained someone else.
 
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And speaking of GAG, and the crook who took over the "inventory"; he cheated a friend out of $200; sent him a piece of plain maple and wouldn't take it back. I told him to burn it; not worth my time putting metal in it .
 
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The sole purpose of a rifle is to please its owner.

So all that matters is that you like it.


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And speaking of GAG, and the crook who took over the "inventory"; he cheated a friend out of $200; sent him a piece of plain maple and wouldn't take it back. I told him to burn it; not worth my time putting metal in it .


People that shop only price get what they pay for
 
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Ok, a dead plain maple semi inletted stock is not $200 in any universe. I didn't mention that the picture showed a walnut stock; he lost that one. He talked to the guy several times.
 
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And speaking of GAG, and the crook who took over the "inventory"; he cheated a friend out of $200; sent him a piece of plain maple and wouldn't take it back. I told him to burn it; not worth my time putting metal in it .


Who is/was the crook ?
 
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The guy that ended up with all of GAGs inventory after the fire; forgot his name.
He sold my friend a walnut stock; they talked about it several times, and apparently "lost" that one; delivered a plain maple one instead. Wouldn't take it back. Doesn't matter now; I should not have said anything about it. He is deployed for a year now, anyway. Where? A place that is 100% sand.
 
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Beautiful rifle!

For the recoil pad to metal:

1) I have some old take action metal buttplates if you want to see if they would work. One is pretty wide, not sure about the height.

2) Maybe Duane's metal buttplates might be big enough.

3) You could probably just shape some metal to fit the stock and have it checkered.


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I stopped off at Ahlman's last week and asked if Carol was there, apparently she no longer is.

I did not talk to Carol personally but talked to Stacey a couple weeks ago. Carol had given me an estimate on converting a stock from pressed checkering to cut checkering and was given 4-6 weeks turn around. I sent it to them about 2 weeks ago. ???

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The Maple checkering was done over the holidays. It didn't take all that long, maybe 3 weeks, I'll find out for sure. I remember he told him to go with 18lpi.

That GAG Maple stock was the second one delivered to my buddy, the first was walnut and was warped.

Even with the rubber, after 10 shots my buddy was done.
 
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