Dropped of my oldest boy's LH M70 Stainless / Synthetic in 416 Rem at Kevin Weaver's place today. It shoots fine, but I'm having him go through it with a fine tooth comb, cut 2" off of the barrel to 22" then CeraKote it. It wasn't cheap but then either are kids ...

Here's before, I should have an after picture in a month or two ...

I would love to get my hand son one of those but the handle needs to be on the other side for me.

Nice rifle your son should be very proud to hunt with that.

Saw one like that although it was right handed at the San Antonio gun show this weekend.

Ed

Surestrike, Nope the handle is on the correct side! Love to find one of those in the WSMs in lefthand.
Max

Is that the Custom Extreme Weather (no.1) that was built in Connecticut up until about 2003? I have one, also in left hand, in 338-06 (rebored from 25-06). Very nice gun, Adam

Cerracoating a Stainless rifle is like painting a tin barn??????? Curious as to why.

Because it looks pretty

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Originally posted by Atkinson:
Cerracoating a Stainless rifle is like painting a tin barn??????? Curious as to why.

Because his son wants it that way. This is a labor of love. Last I read, his son is coming back to the US from deployment and he was planning to rebarrel it to .375 H&H for him. Kids have wishes that do not always make sense.

I watched this rifle on Gunbroker for several weeks but it was too high for me to justify, living in Japan and with no immediate ability to use it.

Personally, I think it is a mistake to change calibers or modify it in any way, in that it is a rare LH stainless .416 Rem from the Custom Shop, and should shoot great and retain greater value as is, but he bought it and it's not my gun.

Good for him, whatever he does.