I got tired of sanding and decided to just put some paint on it. I have the bedding perfected, crossbolts and pillars, and an oak block in the butt for the recoil pad attachment.
The top surface of the stock and barrel channel are finished, but the bottom metal area needs some more rebuilding, filling, sanding, and a repaint.
It is shootable as is, but I am on the lookout for another stock. Not MPI.







This rifle is another of the "Thinking and Seeing Man's" caliber: .395/.416 Rigby Rimless

40-07

410-grain LBT LFNGC at 2150 fps
or
GSC Trio 340-grainers
and
S&H 310, 325, and 330-grainers as fast as needed for any task:
Surely 2800 fps or less is prudent for shooting from ballistic-pendulum wheelchairs.

416/400 Rigby Rimless Magnum would be more "English" and extend more pinkies

Ah, yes, the "schwing" of the extended pinky ...
I better get a wood stock for it and have the other side of the barrel engraved: "416/395 Rigby Rimless" just to be a little more precise ... Ah what the hell, the original 400 Nitro For Black Powder 3" was a .395, and you can even find some references claiming the previous existence of a 400 Nitro Express 3" that was a .395-caliber.

416/400 Rigby Rimless Magnum it is, for yet another name for this cartridge.

Boomer,
Besides a wood stock, do I have to put a barrel band sling base and a multi-leaf express rear sight on it too?

Thinking "Pinky Finger Schwing" here.

Ezactly...the name precedent is kinda like the 400/375 Holland and Holland.



All self promoting self respecting gun makers need a proprietary namesake cart. Yern is the 400 RIP Gunverks

Stock looks pretty good except the old girls bottom has some cellulite!!

Don't you have "people" for that kind of work Doc??

When I used to paint signs we called that FLA or Fat ladies ass

quote:

Originally posted by Macifej:
Stock looks pretty good except the old girls bottom has some cellulite!!

Don't you have "people" for that kind of work Doc??

FLA, yep.

Killing time, herding turtles: .395 component suppliers.

No self respecting gunsmith would touch that MPI stock. I was stuck with it or scrap it. The cellulite is wrinkles in epoxy smeared over the places where I stuck the crossbolts. I was just using paint as a filler. Time to sand it down again, maybe Bondo glazing putty for the next smoothing attempt, then 400-grit, and paint some more.

This will be the disposable "beater stock." Boomer has given me delusions of grandeur. I now need wood for Pinky Finger Schwing.

good work ron!

MPI ...

much pain involved!
macho patience involved

even at 65 bucks,l might have been 75... well, lets just say an mpi enfield stock was the first thing i ever sent back to brownells because it was fugly

Jeffe,
You are too kind.
I thought the MPI was a bargain too. Man was I ever wrong!

So mpi stocks are as usefull as snake mittens?

anyone got one of those "snake mitten" stocks for a P-14? (for a song, maybe) Any configuration, be it a A2, drop belly, or whatever....

Thanks,
archdlx

quote:

Originally posted by RIP:
Jeffe,
You are too kind.
I thought the MPI was a bargain too. Man was I ever wrong!

RIP, you have deep pockets! Get something like these from Serengeti, with their laminating process and send it and fugly to el jeffe. He can use fugly to replicate a decent chunk of wood that'll be impervious to the weather.

How about an African wood... Bubinga or Makore


http://www.cookwoods.com/

Makore


Bubinga

Bubinga : Pretty, heavy... smells like a burning urinal!

HOLY SMACK!!!
Those fully inletted and finished stocks are mre than each of my rifles!!

Some people have some DEEP DEEP pockets.

archdlx

Please!
I was just joking about the Pinky Finger Schwing!
I will liposuction (sand) and tighten up her bottom (epoxyplasty), then give her dermabrasion (sand) and some new makeup (paint).
Maybe brown (faux walnut) instead of gray will be more romantic, at least the same color as termite food! That will give me a woody.

I now know that it would be much easier to make a McMillan CZ Express stock fit a Dakota African than to use an MPI abortion:

Shouldn't the Pre-64 be closer?

Like this one for Winchester Safari Classic with Sunny Hill drop belly bottom metal? I'll check that out too.

Side-by-side:

Winchester:


CZ:


I think the hole spacing is a closer fit on the CZ Express, for the Rigby-sized Dakota African.

The CZ action is very Winchester-like. Remember how Axel's dad turned a CZ into Model 70?

I'm going on the premis that Dakota claims to have modelled the 76 on the Pre 64.
Axel's dad? I believe that is a member of the scizo family living in the trollish mind of ScottS.

A CZ into an M70 would take smoke & mirrors.
Different animals.