JudgeG posted some pics of a beautiful upgrade done by Roger Ferrell some time ago. His work is simply beautiful! For a rebed, recontour of the stock to include the right shape, a rosewood foreend, and redoing the checkering he quoted me about $650. His number is 770-460-0533.

By the way, the P7M13 you traded may be the finest 9mm pistol every made. They are terrific firearms.

Thank�s Stefan. The price seems ok.

Boha

boha!

You could consider a semi inletted stock from a guy here in Sweden named Johnny Boberg. He makes semi inletted stocks to many popular rifles. He use to have a good supply of claro walnut but the US$ whent sky high to the Swe. "krona" so he turned to Turkey instead. He now have a decent supply of Turkish walnut.

Johnny have several models and shapes for his stocks. That includes a classic straight model that would suite your 416 Rigby perfect. Johnny will also duplicate a stock that you supply.

The prices starts at about 100 Eur. for a A quality semi inletted blank. If you step up a grade or two you will get a quite nice piece of wood that would look a lot nicer than 95% of the ones you find on a Sako or Tikka rifle. That will set you back about 150 Eur.

You can get Johnny at: johnny.boberg@telia.com

Stefan

Yes, Mike, it was in fact the Judge�s rifle that gave me the idea of trying a CZ. But over here in Finland we don�t have the CZ American available, so I had to start with a hogback stock. I�m not sure of the fore-end, I recall reading on this forum that an old english type fore-end would be about 8", but from where? I have no rosewood, alas, so it will be plain.

The P7 was an accurate piece of high quality, but I had not fired it for five years, so I got rid of it, which in itself is a hard thing to do.

Boha

mstarling,

The P7 series embodies amazing quality but they are way too heavy for their size and the m13 feels like a 2x4 in ones hand. That said, the only pistol I have ever fired that was more accurate was my Glock 17L.

Best,

JohnTheGreek

Good gentlemen. My friend cewe is airborne - destination Johannesburg, and I couldn�t go this year. So some time back I traded a useless HK P7M13 pistol for a CZ .416 Rigby to work with so I wouldn�t feel bad being left behind... Didn�t work though as you all must understand; I know I really should be with my friend in the bush tomorrow stalking zebra.
I thought working on the damn hogback stock would help, but I�m not sure - I�m not there yet.

So give me hints on what to improve on this one - the idea of using some sort of Monte Carlo came from a picture of a late H&H in the article "The bolt action stopper stock" by Jack Lott in the 1984 edition of Gun Digest. I felt a a straight comb would make it too german. The problem is probably that it isn�t a Mauser - but I need it to be just perfect in form before sanding and oiling.







Boha