But gladly he made it,but I was worried. I think it came out pretty well and within my budget no less.

Here some pics of the post-64 Win that use to be a 300 RUM.

Would like to thank Lee Baker at the Hunter's Den in Carson City Nevada. Lee did the rebarrel and metal work.
Bob Szweda at RMS Custom Checkering for the great job on stockwork and assembling the rifle. Bob had his Friends the Menards do the bluing. Bob Szweda is in the Prescott valley area and teaches at the college.

Anyway I like the rifle very much and shipped off a 375 today to Bob. In about 5 months I'll have a matching pair.

I hope the pictures do the rifle justice as it is a beauty.

That is one beautiful piece of weaponry. What scope and mounts are you going to use?

Also, you call it a Post '64, but isn't that a claw extractor we see on the right, making it a Classic CRF? Or are my muddy browns playing tricks on me?

Beautiful rifle!

best looking winchester 404 EVER (except billy's)

Hope you enjoy your 404 as much as I do mine!

Beautiful rifle!

It is a nice rifle, I hope you enjoy it much and if you can brand new it hunting a nice trophy (of the animal that is and its hunting is permitted of course ), better than better.

A greeting

Oscar.

Fast996

Fine very fine! The stock is great. Did you have the stock made? Love those Winchesters, I have been using the same 300 RUM action to make a few things too! I think someone mentioned it was not control fee---wrong, it is control feed. All the 300 RUMs were control feed guns.

Fine piece of work, thanks for showing!
Michael

Perfection!
Bet it is balanced on the front action screw and feeds as slick as goose poop.
Weight 9.0 lbs dry?
24" barrel?
NO.5 sporter contour?
Best chambering.
Best sights.
Best action.
You could not have done any better.
A spare stock by McMillan would balance well, standard fill.
Save the pretty wood for Sunday-go-to-meeting.

DRG: Kiss my grits.

I likes it!

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Originally posted by jeffeosso:
best looking winchester 404 EVER (except billy's)

Wow..I'm a little more humble than that. Thanks for all the good words about the rifle.

It is a CRF classic. The rifle comes in at about 9.5 pounds probably a little heavier because of the williams bottom metal and the 26 inch barrel. Speaking of the barrel it is a Lilja 375b contour,which is the post-64 Safari express factory contour.
The wood actually surprised me. Bob Szweda put on a Pilkington finish and with his checkering ability the stock is way past what I imagined.
The gun does feed like goose poop and I can't wait for the rain to stop so I can take it to the range.
I haven't even thought about a scope yet. In fact it's still sitting in the kitchen from last night. So I need to wrap it up or I'll be in big trouble.

Awesome looking gun you got ther FAST........I am envious.

Posts like this make me wanna get my "suppposed" 404 build on the go.

Brass/Dies/Bullets are in my possesion, now all I need is gun

That is a super lovely piece of wood. You will have tons of fun with it. I took mine out and got a few goats a couple of weeks back.A good cast bullet mould will be a boon for the play sessions. Now you need a 7x57.

Von Gruff

A couple more here.

Simply Lovely ... sigh ... congratulations!

I can't imagine sweating out the delivery. Last week our FEDEX guy delivered a Zeiss Conquest to the wrong address (same street number, wrong street) about 6 miles away. The receiver called me and I picked it up. I was none too happy! If it had been that rifle, I'd have been going nuts!

UPS tracking said they delivered a 13.0 pound package to my home ("front door") at 2:56 PM on 10/05/09, Monday before last.
No one ever saw that package at my place.
Friday 10/09/09 at 6 PM I filed a claim with UPS.
Saturday morning 10/10/09 I went out to the rifle range.
When I got home that day at 3 PM there was my package, weighing 2.0 pounds, leaned against the front door. A book and some rifle sights.

I called the shipper and he is checking to see if he got charged for 13.0 pounds or 2.0 pounds.

Go figure.

I am afraid the grain flow of that stock reminds me of the CZ 404 Jeffery "fancy American black walnut"
that I had break off at the grip.
That one was replaced with a B&C Kevlar stock, gratis by CZ.

I want to get another of those Winchester "M70 African" rear sights to add to my M70 404J African Sheep Rifle.

Is that sight available from Wisner again?
Weatherby also used that sight on their "Dangerous Game" Mark Vs.

DRG: Kiss my grits.

great looking rifle! love the figure in the wood.

quote:

Originally posted by RIP:

I want to get another of those Winchester "M70 African" rear sights to add to my M70 404J African Sheep Rifle.

Is that sight available from Wisner again?
Weatherby also used that sight on their "Dangerous Game" Mark Vs.

DRG: Kiss my grits.

I just got the last 2 from Jim the other day. He produces these sights for Weatherby and Wisner will have another batch in 8-12 months.

What a piece of "gun porn". Add a Leupold 2.5-8X in Talley QD rings and it would be perfect.

Rich
DRSS

Called Wisner.
Will get in the queue.
Will not rob my .358STA nor the 500A2 for the "parts."
Will wait for new "parts."

Nice! Its got that CZ look, a beauty

ThAT turned out great, beautiful piece of wood! Now, time to light the fuse & start shooting!

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Originally posted by fredj338:
ThAT turned out great, beautiful piece of wood! Now, time to light the fuse & start shooting!

Fred,

When I first joined this forum your jeffery was the rifle that made me want to build this model 70 jeffery. To simply say your gun is tops.

fast