Howdy everyone!

OK here is what I did and total cost for the rifle as a "do it yourself" custom.

1. Get a Marlin X7 rifle
2. Get a McGowan custom custom barrel in .275 Rigby (7x57) they will stamp it for you as a .275 Rigby
3. Get a Boyds custom stock for the rifle
4. DNZ medium mounts one piece XL7 Win70
5. Scope of your choosing (this will alter the price) I chose the Weaver 40/44
6. Put it together. If you do this yourself you need a barrel clamp and wrench.
7. Pick your load and test (I am in the process of doing this) test as of tomorrow is Hornady 175gr with euro brass (prvi Partisian) and Alliant powder 48 grains of R-19.

Total cost for a do it your self is...
1. XL7 at the time I got it for 259.00 (first run marlin owned) now X7 is 360.00
2. Boyds custom stock 97.00 laminate or 119.00 walnut.
3. McGowan custom barrel 300.00
4. DNZ medium one piece mount 57.00
5. Gonna use my scope 40/44 Weaver 99.95

Have to say that this is a god price of about
950.00

HOLY CRAP what have I done.
I could have had a custom built rifle for what I have in this dang thing!
For me is was a bit cheaper due to the lower cost I paid for the original rifle and laminate stock. About 800.00 but still close enough to a true custom that if I had to do it all over I'd get the Custom

sounds about right. roger

I did something similar just different components.
However mine is marked 276 rigby Improved

Now how the heck do we find some 275 Rigby marked brass???????????????

Interesting. Why not call it the “284 Holly Crap”. That would make it a wildcat.

Holly Crap it looks like a 275, 7mm Mauser. It’s your money, you spend it the way you want.

It seems that you did have a custom rifle made to your specs,it was just put together by you.
I always got a lot of satisfaction when I finished the one that I made because there are no others like them.

I found a J.C. Higgins M50 with FN Mauser action for $200. Seems like the barel got caught in a screen door or something as it was noticably bent. I found a stock from I think a Husqvarna Husky, the one with a schnable tip on the forearm for $100. I had my gunsmith rebarrel the rifle to 7x57 and set it into that stock, do a nice glass bed job. Barrel was a douglas BTW. Final package was a hair over $900 and is one of the most accurate rifles I own. The scope is a vintage Leupold in I think 3X. It doesn't say anywhere on the scope. That scope looks exactly right on that rifle. It had a Redfield scope base on the action when I got it and a well tune Timney trigger.
I have a few customs that cost a hell of a lot more money than that 7x57 but to be honest, it's one of the very last rifles I would ever let go.
Paul B.