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Pair of no. 1 .270s
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Here's a couple rifles I recently finished up restocking. Ruger no. 1 .270 Win. 22" sporter barrels wearing thin shell walnut. I modified the factory stocks to have unique dimensions and new shaping and hardware, sent them off to be duplicated, and then finished up the rest of the work by hand. I also rust blued all the steel hardware attached to the stocks and the safety pieces too. Added Dakota skeleton grip caps, pre-64 M70 buttplates, NECG fore-end escutcheons, and Dakota swivel studs, plus the cheekpieces and side panels. 21 lpi checkering on the grips and 28 lpi inside the grip caps. Scopes are Leupold VX3i 2.5-8x36mm in Warne QD rings.





















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Nice work and superb pieces of wood. Who supplied the blanks?


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A beautiful pair.
I don't think I have ever seen a pair of rifles in opposite hands?
 
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A beautiful pair.
I don't think I have ever seen a pair of rifles in opposite hands?


Same here. He has sure done a great job.
 
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Thanks fellas! Wood was supplied by Cecil Fredi. Yeah not quite a matching pair, one is a little bit longer than the other too, but close enough. Getting the side panels to match between the two was fun.


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Never been a Ruger fan, but those two could sure suck me over to the dark-side! Beautiful.
 
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They look really nice Evan very well done indeed.
 
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Truly beautiful!
 
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Very nice work
 
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Well done. What did you use for wood finish?
 
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I like the treatment of the Foreend screws and escutcheons.
 
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They look Great Evan, Nice Work!


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Very nice, Evan! Good to see them in color, too. beer
 
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Beautiful workmanship and amazing wood.
 
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Fine work from end to end and those cheekpieces are very nicely shaped. Very well done.
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Thanks all! These were finished with spar urethane.

Here's some pics of the right handed one by itself.















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Your work is really coming along Evan. The junction of the toe line of the stock, the grip cylinder, and the grip cap angle gives a lot of stock makers grief. You handled that area very well on these two rifles.

Keep up the good work.

John Holliger
 
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Beautiful pair of rifles!! Can someone explain to me what "thin shelled walnut" means? I have heard it several times in refrence to stocks but am unsure of what it means.
 
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Your work is really coming along Evan. The junction of the toe line of the stock, the grip cylinder, and the grip cap angle gives a lot of stock makers grief. You handled that area very well on these two rifles.

Keep up the good work.

John Holliger


Thanks John!

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Beautiful pair of rifles!! Can someone explain to me what "thin shelled walnut" means? I have heard it several times in refrence to stocks but am unsure of what it means.


Referring to the nut hulls themselves. Juglans Nigra (what most call black walnut) has very thick hulls that are fun to crack. Juglans Regia (which goes by many names including English, French, Turkish, etc.) in comparison has thinner hulls- they're the tan colored ones that come in bags of mixed nuts. So... rather than try and apply one of several names to it or refer to Linnaean taxonomy, you can just call it thin shelled walnut too.


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Two very beautiful rifles.A job well done, you should be proud.
 
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That is fantastic work.


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Beautiful rifles. I really like how they came out


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