I just finished this and delivered to the customer in time to put under the Christmas tree. It is a 7x57 on a VZ24 action with 20 inch barrel. I used Duane's bottom metal and trap-door grip cap, a Glen Fewless butt plate, and home-made forend cap. The metalwork, rust bluing and stockwork was by me, checkering by Pam Wheeler, and engraving by Mike Gouse.

I want to give special thanks to Steven Hughes (SDH) for helping me with some of the fitting of stock metal and shaping, and lots of encouragement. We did this work during one of Steven's Stockmaking seminars a couple years ago.

Well done, very nice job all round. Have you got a shot of the LHS?

Here is the left side of the butt.

A very well executed rifle! Cool gun.

Beautiful Wayne just beautiful.

I will get in touch in the new year. Thinking we build a left handed ruger into a full stock. I have a ruger African 375 in my collection.

Thanks,

Mike

VERY nice! a work of art in a classic calibre. I'm sure your customer is having a very Merry Christmas indeed.

Very nice!!

No boxes that long under my Christmas tree, hmm.

Beautiful, Wayne. Merry Christmas!

Wow! Terrific-I wouldn't complain if I found one like that under my tree!

Clarence

Wayne, It looks great as I told you it would. The mid-length schnable on the forend worked out quite nicely and that cap you made helps gives it a very long and lean shape. The rust bluing is lovely and matches perfectly on all parts. It is a lovely rifle, in a great cartridge and it was my pleasure to work with you in my shop!

Fair piece of timber.
And by that I mean fantastic.

Blanks in that length are hard to find to begin with, and finding one so nice was a huge bonus. It was one of those blanks where the more you cut into it the better it got.

Just beautiful!

Love when work like this is shared!

who is the three position safety by?

The safety is from Recknagel as are the sights and scope mounts.

The trigger is a Timney.

Don Markey made the bolt handle blank, which I massaged quite a bit.

how's it shoot?

It shot well.

A friend of mine took Steve's class and I must say the level of design and execution went WAY up. Good influence, good job by all

Really nice work. Really nice wood too.

I’ve always wanted to do full length stock, never built one. Never done a two piece either. Started on a Savage 99 but lost interest.

Stunningly beautiful!
THANKS for sharing with us.

Zeke

Oh my!!!!

I love that wood!

Is that french walnut?

It is California English. Some call it French.

A classic beauty, with long and lean lines, like a purebred greyhound.

I love it.

Very nice work..

Wow is all I have to say.

I don't have words enough to describe how beautiful that is.
Everyone involved in that project has incredible talent.

Spectacular...love the Eichenlaubgraveur...very German.

I just ran across these pics of Wayne's stock being shaped in my Stockmaking Seminar. They show the intermediate schnable that adds a lot of class to the stock. Not an easy thing to accomplish, and quite elegant.


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2019 Stockmaking Seminar: That's Wayne on the left and SDH on the right. Ruger #1 and Mauser shaped from the blank. Zack of Black's Forge with the Mauser