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Thanks go out to tip burns and john valicek for a job well done... This project started as a pawn shop rifle for $140... and ended up as a nice working rifle, suitable for anything.... also thanks to randy (norman conquest), rich (idaho sharpshooter) and forrest b for all the wedding present bullets they sent me to try out in my loads... the eddystone enfield was barreled w/shilen #5 contour, cut to 20"... has a barrel band necg front sight and a necg adjustable rear... barrel band front sling swivel, a winchester style supergrade rear swivel, winchester supergrade recoil crossbolts... 16 lines checkering..heavy checkering that a gloved hand can hang onto...patterned after a remington model 30....pachmar decelerator recoil pad on a boyds' pepper laminate stock.... tip full bedded the action and barrel... i like the look of the enfield bottom metal, so i left it alone... weaver steel 2 piece bases... tip parkerizd the whole thing...a nice oil finish on the stock....tip test fired it, and i'll get it in a couple weeks... thanks guys!!!!!!!!  http://i90.photobucket.com/albums/k245/jimatcat/P1011345.jpg[/IMG]      and i nearly forgot.... the gun weighs 10 lbs, 2oz....go big or go home ........ DSC-- Life Member NRA--Life member DRSS--9.3x74 r Chapuis | ||
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Congratulations on the new rifle!  ------------------------------- Some Pictures from Namibia Some Pictures from Zimbabwe An Elephant Story | |||
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Nice! I know that you'll love the 416 Taylor, I sure love mine. | |||
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Great looking rifle and job well done.  "Sometimes nothing can be a pretty cool hand." 470 Heym; 9.3x74r Chapuis, Heym 450/400 on it's way | |||
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Very nice Jim. Tip and John do great work. Mike | |||
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that is a very serious, functional looking rifle. Well appointed, as they say, and not too pretty to take out in the brush. You have done well, and it should give you a lifetime of good memories. Stick 57gr of AA5744 behind those bullets and let me know , it should be good for about 2150fps. Rich DRSS Knowledge not shared is knowledge lost... | |||
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......Really great...,.,.,.,.,.,.,.,.,.I like how they filled in the swimming pool ..Even tho I prefer the Ears left on ..., My 1st Taylor was an Eddystone .,.,Yours is alot nicer ...74 gr IMR 4320 350 gr bullet...Perfact load ... .If it can,t be grown , its gotta be mined .... | |||
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Very nice indeed! Congratulations! Rusty We Band of Brothers! DRSS, NRA & SCI Life Member "I am rejoiced at my fate. Do not be uneasy about me, for I am with my friends." ----- David Crockett in his last letter (to his children), January 9th, 1836 "I will never forsake Texas and her cause. I am her son." ----- Jose Antonio Navarro, from Mexican Prison in 1841 "for I have sworn upon the altar of god eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man." Thomas Jefferson Declaration of Arbroath April 6, 1320-“. . .It is not for glory, nor riches, nor honours that we are fighting, but for freedom - for that alone, which no honest man gives up but with life itself.” | |||
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neither of my rifles had the "swimming pool".... it's witness marks from machining that a previous owner left when the ears were removed...the difference in the hardness of the metal made the discoloration more obvious....this particular enfield was machined to match a remington 30, drilled and tapped... tip found steel weaver bases and parkerized them also... go big or go home ........ DSC-- Life Member NRA--Life member DRSS--9.3x74 r Chapuis | |||
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Jim- Congratulations to you, Tip and John!! That rifle is a dandy. The cross bolts, while necessary, are a great touch. May the wind be in your face and the sun at your back. P. Mark Stark | |||
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