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This is a basic Mini Mauser in it's third build. It was originally a 7.62X39 barreled action. A Richards Micro Fit stock was finished for it. Wood had great figure, but it wasn't a good inlet. That is typical of Richards in my opinion. An old friend,John Bunch, said I needed to rechamber it. He decided on a 270X39 Ackley. For all intents and purposes it was a 270PPC. It was very accurate. I traded the rifle off for a set of Michelins for my truck. I had second thoughts abot 3 years later and made another trade to get it back. I gave James Anderson the stock and barrel for a project for one of his young Sons. Kerry Stottlemyer did the bolt handle and the custom scope bases and rings. Karl Feldkamp did the cuts on the receiver. James Anderson provided one of the last pieces of bottom metal. I decided to chamber the Shilen barrel in 220 Russian. It is the parent case for the 6PPC and feeds just great. I love Roger Vardy's wood and he sent me a nice piece. Dean Zollinger carved the stock. The rifle weighs 6.25 Lbs complete without scope.      I think I bought the 3 POS safety from PT&G and Kerry installed it. It does have a Timney trigger now. It ain't fancy, but a really nice carry around tin can shooter. It is as accurate as any 22 cal CF rifle. | ||
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Stunning rifle Butch! Fantastic wood. I really like Dean's stocks. -------------------------------------------- Well, other than that Mrs. Lincoln, how was the play? | |||
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Very nice!  Free 500grains | |||
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About the only thing I don't like about it is that it isn't mine.  | |||
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Nice rifle but not familiar with the caliber at all... On the plains of hesitation lie the bleached bones of ten thousand, who on the dawn of victory lay down their weary heads resting, and there resting, died. If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue, Or walk with Kings - nor lose the common touch... Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it, And - which is more - you'll be a Man, my son! - Rudyard Kipling Life grows grim without senseless indulgence. | |||
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Beautiful rifle! Interesting that you are in Texas and got the Wood from OZ. I know that some of the Aussie smiths get nice wood out of NZ! "When the wind stops....start rowing. When the wind starts, get the sail up quick." | |||
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Roger and I go back a ways. He has supplied me excellent wood for years. My stockmakers like his wood. It doesn't cost that much to get it here either. The 220 Russian has been around for quite sometime. 99% of the PPC cartridges are formed from it and the brass is readily available. I do know that good wood is available from the Kiwi's, but why take a chance of going with a new to me vendor. | |||
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Definitely a lot of fine work by a couple gunsmiths, and a long laundry list of components by reputable suppliers. Very well executed light weight stalking rifle. | |||
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Thank you Rich. | |||
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That rifle is just poetry! Oh, wait...that's your mailing address. Nice piece! | |||
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Nice rifle Butch,and another nice stick...He has one I've been eyeball'en. Interesting round but a good one. Enjoy! _____________________ Steve Traxson | |||
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Fantastic rifle. Next time you need new tires let me know, I'll swap tires for that gun any day of the week! ----------------------------------------- "I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived. -Henry David Thoreau, Walden | |||
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That is fantastic. | |||
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I confused. Does that mean you have a richards stock and a 270x39 barrel available? | |||
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richj, I mentioned in the original post that I gave them to James Anderson. | |||
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MD - Me dummy - reading is fundamental. | |||
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Nice Stick Jim | |||
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Very nice Mini Mauser! I bought 2 Mini's for future builds one in .223 one in 7.62x39 not knowing what I would really do with them. After seeing your rifle I now have a better idea of what I need to do with them. Thanks for posting! | |||
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I want one!!!!! I LOVE that pattern  Beautiful piece of wood. Great finish work as well. As usual just my $.02 Paul K | |||
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Great story, beautiful rifle! Thanks! Rusty We Band of Brothers! DRSS, NRA & SCI Life Member "I am rejoiced at my fate. Do not be uneasy about me, for I am with my friends." ----- David Crockett in his last letter (to his children), January 9th, 1836 "I will never forsake Texas and her cause. I am her son." ----- Jose Antonio Navarro, from Mexican Prison in 1841 "for I have sworn upon the altar of god eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man." Thomas Jefferson Declaration of Arbroath April 6, 1320-“. . .It is not for glory, nor riches, nor honours that we are fighting, but for freedom - for that alone, which no honest man gives up but with life itself.” | |||
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