Finished this one today. 6.5mm x 55mm on 42 G33/40. I don't really like taking photos, so please excuse the smudges and handprints. I think it came out nicely.
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Super combination of a great Mauser action with a classic stock in my favorite medium game caliber! Wonderful execution of essentials with no extra frills. I am very impressed. Thanks for sharing this rifle.
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Finish is WATCO Teak Oil colored with alkanet root. Wet sand each coat, finishing with 1000 grit paper then once dry polish with soft rag dampened with paraffin oil and dusted with rotten stone.
John Farner
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Thanks for all the compliments. No, not for sale. It was built for a very good friend of mine who specified the caliber but left the rest to me. I don think you could talk him out of it.
Duane W. Made the bottom metal for it. The stock blank I picked up at the ACGG show from a logger who sold me six magnificent green blanks in '09. I have three left but one is a two-piece as it twisted so badly I couldn't use it any other way. I'm using one for a .375 H&H I'm building for my Son.
John Farner
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Posts: 2939 | Location: Corrales, NM, USA | Registered: 07 February 2001
A wonderful hunting rifle. I think too many people here think you need all sorts of bells and whistles to make a custom. Good wood and elegant stock lines and good workmanship are all that is needed.
Dick Wright
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