Making a Mannlicher style stock for my Lithgow, the stock is for a pantograph pattern hence the join.



Roger

Nice, that should be a sweet carry rifle.

Nice. It will be.

Thanks Yoda !

Roger

...sorry, resist I couldn't...

Looking forward to the finished product, Yuma. The wildcat you mention -- how different is it from the old .25-303?

Pretty much the same, slight capacity difference, still limited by the strength of the action. This was originally a 303-25, as we call them here, and I had a couple hundred 7x57R cases left over when I sold my 7x57R/12ga BRNO combination, I built one of my Lithgows in 7X57R and re-cut this one to 257 Roberts. The beauty of using these cases in the LE's is that there are no other changes to mags or feeding because the 7x57R and 303 cases are so similar.



...my 7x57R, way back when, I am currently re-stocking in a Daniel Fraser style stock.



303 and 7x57R.

Roger

Roger, you are fortunate to have those Lithgows to work with. They once were reasonable here, but not for a long time. I see rusty and shamefully abused kitchen-table butchered Enfields from any old arsenal starting at $500 here these days.
After reading Fitzsimons' "Kokoda" I wanted a Lithgow in the worst way, but failed to "strike whilst the iron was hot" if you have that saying in Australia.
Lovely that you have them available to build fine sporters.