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Sendero300
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Here's a few pics of a rifle Mark Penrod built for me.
It's on a 1940 Mod. 70 action w/ 3X9 Khales
LOP 13 3/4", Weight 7# 8oz (rifle and Talley bases)

Scope of work:

Blueprint action
Surface grind bottom of receiver
Krieger #2 Echol's contour barrel
Weld Bridge and blind rear guard screw hole
Re-cut and surface grind loading port
Trigger Sears Surface Ground and polished..2#
3 panel checkered Penrod bolt handle
Drill & Tap Receiver for 8X40 screws
Counter bore bases for 8X40
Hone raceways and magazine well & polish
Heat treated Hex head action screws
Pillar bedded action and pressure bedded tip
Range tested for accuracy
Fine Pattern Jewell bolt body and mag follower (approx 3300 jewels on bolt)
Saftey timed

Here's a pic of the rear of the action. Notice the welded up bridge and blinded screw hole and checkered bolt release.





Photo of the Blackburn bottom metal with hex head screws.




Pic of Mark's 3 panel checkered bolt handle.









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Beautiful.
 
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That is a great looking, functional, no problem rifle by a great smith that will last you a lifetime. Nice job.
 
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Perfect rifle, perfect caliber and perfect scope.

I love that rifle !!
Congrats, I wish you many hunting adventures with it tu2

L
 
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Thanks for posting that. That is a beautiful rifle.
 
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Mark said he regularly got 5/8" groups with some loads of IMR 4350 and I believe N550 and 165gr ballistic tips.

I shot several 5 shot groups that are 1".

57.5 grs. H4350 180gr Accubonds 5 shots= 2839fps

58 grs. IMR 4350 165gr BT's = 2904fps

I haven't shot these at any greater distance than 100 yards yet but both loads are same POI at 100 yards and will put the 180gr. partitions in the same place.


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Originally posted by Lorenzo:
Perfect rifle, perfect caliber and perfect scope.

I love that rifle !!
Congrats, I wish you many hunting adventures with it tu2

L
I'm with Lorenzo here....very well done!

Is that a Rimrock stock?


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Hi vapodog,

It's a Darcy Echol's stock .."edge" made by Mcmillan.


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Terry, thanks for posting those pics. Now I have a couple of new ideas for my upcoming 270!
 
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Rick,
What is the blueprint for the Bill Leeper rifle? What's it weigh etc.?
Those are conetrol mounts aren't they? I like the low profile....


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The blueprint is very basic. I have had the stock factory fwt -06 for over 20 years, and 6 or 7 years ago I decided I wanted a nice stock on it. I picked up the semi-inletted stock and Blackburn bottom metal, and asked Bill to put the pieces together.

It was a bit of an exercise in frustration for him. He normally prefers to work from the blank. The grip on the stock is a bit more open then he or I prefer. Also he would have liked to go with a bit heavier barrel to help balance the extremely dense piece of English.

Otherwise there's not much that's not factory. He built up and checkered the bolt release, jewelled the bolt, fitted a blank in the rear sight dovetail, put a gas block in, that's about it. But the work is absolutely impeccable.

Oops, he also modified the bolt so it would clear the ocular on that low mounted scope.

Luckily for me, it is also much more accurate in the new stock with the close fitting foreened. It will go way under an inch with 150 TSX's at an easy 2950 fps over 59 grains of H4350.

I have never actually weighed it but it has to be right at 8 pounds. Those are low Conetrols and a VX-III 1.75-6X32 scope with Premier Reticles #4 reticle.

It's a keeper!
 
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Nice rifle!! Definitely all business. All it needs now is an identical big brother chambered for the venerable 375 H&H.


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That rifle is first class - as Mark always delivers!
 
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Love it!


Mike

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RickF
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Is the paint the standard McMillan olive? Thanks.
 
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Mark said it's painted olive w/Polane ..same as Mcmillan.....


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my favorite part of the whole thing is that built up and checkered bolt release.

Nice!

Did you mention what metal finish was used.
 
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Very nice! What finish is on the gun rust blue?
 
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The finish is Mark's own matte blue but it is similar (to me anyway...kinda...)to a rust blue.

It's just a real soft blue....


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That is about a perfect rifle... Congrats!
 
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Fine Pattern Jewell bolt body and mag follower (approx 3300 jewels on bolt)
Saftey timed

I just caught this could you please show some close up picks?
 
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DMB
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Magnificent rifle!!
I'm in utter awe of Mark Penrod's work.
WOW!!

Don




 
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Sendero300
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Here is a poor pic of the jeweled bolt and follower...Mark took all of the pics in the post except this one. He's also a good photographer!!



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That is very nice. I have never seen a follower jeweled!
 
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Mark sent me approx 40 photo's during the build. Also a couple other nice touches.

On the left side of the barrel where the caliber is marked he put .30-06

On the other side he put Model 70

On top of the barrel about a third of the way to the crown is : Mark Penrod-Gunmaker

Mark also did some work on the heat treating. I think my action was 66RC and he brought it down to 59RC.

He's an amazing gunsmith and every little thing on the rifle is smooth, also amazing inletting..

and on top of all that he's a pleasure to deal with and I learned quite a few things from him.


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He built me a .300 win in SS. It is the twin except the follower. He is one of the very best IMHO!
 
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Originally posted by Sendero300:

Here's a pic of the rear of the action.






Nice rifle!

Question: what did he do to the area behind the tang? It looks like there is a different material (color change) between the tang area and the stock. Is this some kind of bedding material or what?

Thanks
 
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The stock was inlet for a regular tang. It looks like Mark reshaped the tang to a Pre-War style then filled the inlet with Marine-Tex and shaped the stock to perfectly match the tang.

It's apparent that he ordered the stock from McMillan with no bolt notch cut (and probably no ejection port cut), so that he could position the action perfectly to match the stock, then cut he bolt notch to match up exactly with no extra gap. It is a lot of extra work, but the results are worth it, IMO.

You're right, it is nice work.
 
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The stock was inlet for a regular tang. It looks like Mark reshaped the tang to a Pre-War style then filled the inlet with Marine-Tex and shaped the stock to perfectly match the tang.

It's apparent that he ordered the stock from McMillan with no bolt notch cut (and probably no ejection port cut), so that he could position the action perfectly to match the stock, then cut he bolt notch to match up exactly with no extra gap. It is a lot of extra work, but the results are worth it, IMO.

You're right, it is nice work.


The only way to get a D'arcy Echols stock is to buy a rifle from him or order it from him and they come unfinished, inletted for the action and barrel, but not the bolt handle. I sent my Model 70 .375 H&H to McMillan for fitting and painting. Its MOA at 100 yds.


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Actually you can order any McMillan stock without the bolt notch and ejection port cut.

You are right about the Echols stocks, I think I have 5 of them in process in my shop right now.
 
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are actions like the dakota 76 and the empire 98S put through the same steps as what mark does to blueprint the actions?
 
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A+++++ Class,Beauty,Business,all time very best caliber. You have a gun for several generations of trouble free, bang flop hunting. understated beauty!!!WOW
 
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NO NO NO... you got it all wrong. You reeeely should have done a 300 SAUM on a push feed with a red dot Big Grin

OK seriously that is a super sweet rig. All go and incredibly practical.


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I thought this thread was gone and so I deleted some of the pics.... so I reposted a few pics.

Thanks for the compliments...I'm enjoying it very much. It's really a pleasure to shoot with the Echol's stock design.


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