Leave in 5 days and I think everything is about ready to go. The rifle I'm taking is one I had originally built for myself about 4 years ago had just put it in a light fiberglass stock and sprayed the metal in moly lube to get rid of the shine so I could use it that year for hunting here locally. As things went my customers rifles took priority to get done. I just used my rifle in it's usable but not really finished state since. Well when Africa became a definite occurance I got on the ball on my own rifle to finish it off. The stock is my own design using features from a number of different makers, and the metal is all finished in Ceracote. When I switched the mount system to QD mounts I noticed the rings weren't wantingto sit quite right. I started taking some measurements and found that the reciever was out of spec. The rear mount holes were off in all 3 axis being about .022 low. This I found about a month ago. Well I machined the rear bridge to accept another block of steel which I permanently attached and blended in to the reciever and finished it off by machining a Talley base directly into the new rear bridge. Of course I couldn't take the rifle on this hunt in fiberglass, it just wouldn't be civilized. I had to finish it out in that piece of Turkish Walnut I had sitting there just for that reason I just didn't know when I was going to get it done. Well it's finally done as of last Sunday and I can't wait to go. If I hadn't gotten this hunt planed who knows when I would have finished this rifle. I'm just glad I had been using this rifle for the past couple of years and not going with a brand new rifle. You know it's always the smiths rifle that comes last.

SOrry the pics are so large. I'll try to figure out how to shrink them.

Very nice. What caliber is it?

375 H&H of course, works very nicely on deer and elk around here.

Nice scope choice. We've got a few Conquests, and they're worth their weight in gold.

Looks pretty good for a last minute cobble together job!

I'd hunt with it. Good luck on your safari. Is it your first?

first safari who knows how many rifles

Jeff, glad to see it in the wood... You'll have a great time... call me if you need any last minute advice...
Blessings,
Aaron

PS Next time build a 9.3 and get some Nosler bullets... heeeahhahaha!

Aaron,
Stop in it will be in the shop until we leave on Wednesday.

P.S. I'll do that when I need to stop a charging gerbil.