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This is a .500 Jeffery custom rifle that someone built.  | ||
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It's a lefty!  | |||
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ya but unfortunatly its a weatherby...... a 500 a square would have been a far better choice since its based on the 460 anyways. | |||
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Reminds me of a baby hippo I once shot. | |||
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Well, that's an ugly color on the stock but I have one in GMC Rootbeer brown metal flake, so who am I to judge? Frank "I don't know what there is about buffalo that frightens me so.....He looks like he hates you personally. He looks like you owe him money." - Robert Ruark, Horn of the Hunter, 1953 NRA Life, SAF Life, CRPA Life, DRSS lite | |||
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Jeez! A baby-shit colored synthethic stock. FUGLEEE!!   Lo do they call to me, They bid me take my place among them in the Halls of Valhalla, Where the brave may live forever. | |||
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Oh thats bad, really bad. And its got that stick on panel stuff to take the place of checkering. I think Brown Precision used to put it on their stocks. Whew. Doug | |||
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Also notice the fold down rear sight which will inevitably be in the folded down position if it is ever needed. | |||
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The sad thing is he/she probably paod a lot of money for it too. LIFE IS NOT A SPECTATOR'S SPORT! | |||
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Odd barrel band sling swivel. Looks like the factory forearm piece screwed into a shot of pipe and sweated onto the barrel. "Experience" is the only class you take where the exam comes before the lesson. | |||
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Bolt on left, cheek on right? Thats some whacky shite! ------------------------------- Too many people........ | |||
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Paint it steel gray and black spider webs, and it's fine, shesh.. a lefty is pretty much screwed for a 500 jeffe, though the suggestion for 500 a2/510wells is a far better solution. the overly thick stock is for at least 3 down (could it be 4?) I would replace to rear sight and give it to rob, right after I took the auto-lobotomy device off it. Ever shoot a "weatherby scope"? it's got about 2" eye relief at lowest setting jeffe opinions vary band of bubbas and STC hunting Club Information on Ammoguide about the416AR, 458AR, 470AR, 500AR What is an AR round? Case Drawings 416-458-470AR and 500AR. 476AR, http://www.weaponsmith.com | |||
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Yes, I saw that Champlin's had some interesting new guns in... | |||
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I don't know what you're talking about. With a new rear sight and some cherce candy apple red metallic paint . . . just wait for the Christmas Tree to blink GREEN and GO, BABY! Mike Wilderness is my cathedral, and hunting is my prayer. | |||
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Whats wrong with it? Tough as nails, kill's critters dead. What more could a guy ask for? -------------------- THANOS WAS RIGHT! | |||
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My guess is he went to a synthetic stock to totally avoid humidity problems and to minimize the possibility of scratches and dents when he uses this rifle. I can appreciate the fact that it's left-handed; I am left-handed, so I am prejudiced. Were I to have built this rifle, I would have painted it a darker color. But, then, he probably thinks it's beautiful (like he thinks his daughter is beautiful...). The only question is: Does it shoot? My rifle is going to be done around the end of October. If you want to see fuglee, you just wait... | |||
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What a waste of a rifle. I'd rather have 3 good rifles than a thousand pcs of junk like that. | |||
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Not at all! Granite Mountain Arms makes their double square bridge magnum Mauser action in a left hand version sized for the 500 Jeffery. And Karl Heinz Ritterbusch will build a LH rifle with a magnum mauser action from scratch in his shop for any appropriate caliber, including 500 Jeff. | |||
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grains...didnt you mean abomination? 577 BME 3"500 KILL ALL 358 GREMLIN 404-375 *we band of 45-70ers* (Founder) Single Shot Shooters Society S.S.S.S. (Founder) | |||
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No, it's an abortion because it's half done and somebody didn't want it. | |||
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Dan, okay, a guy could go with the GMA, but i bet that action costs 75-85% of what the guy has in it. So, if it were right handed, I would have these complaints. 1: replace rear sight 2: throw away scope and mounts 3: paint stock okay, the "checkering" is FUGLY.. if it feeds and was painted dark, had 1 standing rear sight, and NO scope, it would be fun. after all, it's a big weatherby, and a single stack feeder... Sorry (grin) hard for me not to like a jeffe!!! jeffe opinions vary band of bubbas and STC hunting Club Information on Ammoguide about the416AR, 458AR, 470AR, 500AR What is an AR round? Case Drawings 416-458-470AR and 500AR. 476AR, http://www.weaponsmith.com | |||
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for 1975$, walk out with dies, a lefty would have to work hard to get a better deal. it needs about $300 to be "what I would want" for a cheap working 500 jeffe
The super neato thing is that it's just a rebarrel away from the first 550 magnum lefty!! jeffe opinions vary band of bubbas and STC hunting Club Information on Ammoguide about the416AR, 458AR, 470AR, 500AR What is an AR round? Case Drawings 416-458-470AR and 500AR. 476AR, http://www.weaponsmith.com | |||
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FWIW that looks like a Clifton drop-belly stock like Jeff Cooper's "Baby". Someone added the stick-ons and repainted it. If it's a Clifton its one of the best stocks ever made. A good stripping and new paint job would resurect it. The scope and front sight are cheap to change. All-in-all, I agree with Jeffe that a lefty could do a lot worse if they wanted a cheap 500 Jeff. "Experience" is the only class you take where the exam comes before the lesson. | |||
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What difference does it make on a piece of plastic derivative materal, its all butt ugly no matter what you do to it..Not only that its cold, has no warmth, reeks of recycled melted toasters, vehicle trim, kitchen knife handles, water bottles and used condoms! One would get the impression that I dislike composit stocks, well thats not true, they make wonderful trot line sinkers, especially the ones with lead in the butt... Ray Atkinson Atkinson Hunting Adventures 10 Ward Lane, Filer, Idaho, 83328 208-731-4120 rayatkinsonhunting@gmail.com | |||
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Jeffe, true a GMA costs money, but quality always does. So fortunately there is an excellent option for left handed fellows. And a LH shooter can also get a double. Really there is no need for a leftie to resort to the perversity of the rifle pictured above.  | |||
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I like it! If I was a lefty I would own it! Aleko Hits count, misses don't | |||
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If it were a fish, I would throw it back. | |||
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If it were a fish, I'd bonk it and then throw it back!  ------------------------------- Too many people........ | |||
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I agree, and hope it would sink!!! | |||
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DAMN!! I must be off my rocker,but I want the damn thinglefties are hard to come by in BIG bores at a half decent price for those of us facing a negative cash flow Stay Alert,Stay Alive Niet geschoten is altijd mis Hate of America is the defeat position of failed individuals and the failing state | |||
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If I was a leftie I'd buy it. Then I'd take it home, strip it, send the stock out for a decent paint job by McMillam and fix the sight while its out. I wouldn't want a scope on a 500 Jeff anyway. "Experience" is the only class you take where the exam comes before the lesson. | |||
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Interesting survival gun. Does it float? | |||
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Shame on you Aleko, you have been in that store to long, you need a vacation!!  remember the guy who claimed that fiberglass stock absorbed recoil, then we found out the fiberglass was much lighter than wood so that balanced things out...Now was that a media croc or what! Bet that 505 has a maidens caress with that lightweight stock, huh? bet me!   Ray Atkinson Atkinson Hunting Adventures 10 Ward Lane, Filer, Idaho, 83328 208-731-4120 rayatkinsonhunting@gmail.com | |||
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Is this rifle for sale? Price? I am interested. Thank you My biggest fear is when I die my wife will sell my guns for what I told her they cost. | |||
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Here is the listing. It is at Champlin Arms. There are asking $1975. | |||
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My guess is the rifle started as an old 378 because it has the early Wby scope and perhaps the bloke had a mate who had 500 Jeffery with dies and reamer etc. and so for him it was an easier way to go 50 calibre than 500 A2 Bolt face/extractor and feeding would be ready to go for a 500 J. A left handed Granite might have some feeding issues in 500 J. In addition, at least half the fun would be having a rifle that would annoy so many people  Mike | |||
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Wait until you see mine if you want something annoying. I'm not ever going to own up to what it cost. And I haven't bought the scope yet... | |||
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Gents, I'm a port sider. Sure would like to have this beautiful specimen of a lefty DG. I'll make a trade offer to the owner. I have a very nice stainless GG in 45-70 with a 1x3 Leuy. Give me $200.00 boot money and I'll take it off your hands. Shows you how much I really want this gun. Roger QSL | |||
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Shop Mule for ballistic testing? It is a firing replica of a hunting rifle, right? BTW, the Brown Precision stocks have molded in "checkering" like the McMillans, and that ain't neither! | |||
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