If you read this forum, you like nice custom guns.
Tell me your dream rifle - all of your favorite custom things you want on that rifle from action to checkering to sights to grip caps to butt plates to finish....

What caliber would you build for?

300 H&H on a Mauser action with weld on rear square bridge, sculpted Alaska Arms quick release rings, 25" slim profile barrel with integral front sight, sling swivel and rear sight base on quarter rib. English style stock of quarter sawn English, with straight grain in the forend curving down through the grip with some character in the butt.

It would need a pancake cheekpiece, ebony tip leather covered recoil pad, single screw grip cap, and flat top checkering in a point pattern.

Standard depth bottom metal, Blackburn steel trigger with the trigger modded to be to the rear of the guard. Satterlee 3 position safety, oval checkered pad on the bolt stop and a tasteful amount of rose and scroll engraving.

Let's finish it with a gold oval with my initials in it.

Greg

Dog,
That is good.
I need more...

Feed my greed....

Satterlee action 375 H&H ½ octagon to ½ round with full length rib. All features integral, ¼ rib, sling stud,and front sight base. Tasteful piece of Turkish walnut shaped into a slim stock. Single screw grip cap, flat top checkering and a small but of engraving in the English scroll style with just a touch of gold inlay.

Must be the "dog" thread!

I can't dream about just one rifle. In fact, I have a cupboard full of rifles, not one of which could be described as a "fine custom" or a "best quality" (although not one of them is factory standard either), and I can't even imagine swopping the whole lot for just one rifle, no matter what it might be.

However, I would love a dinky little single-shot falling-block side-lever rifle in a fairly small caliber (say somewhere between .22 Hornet and 6x45mm). 22" barrel, 2-7 Leopold scope (or something with similar classic lines) on QD mounts over a flip-up ghost-ring peep with a simple blade foresight with a folding hood in highly figured wood. Splinter fore-end with buffalo horn caps (fore-end and pistol grip) and a skeleton but-plate.

And a larger but still svelte 9.3x74R single-shot underlever falling block with similar fittings, although probably plainer wood for strength and with a pad rather than a hard but.

And a .45-caliber double of entirely classic design except for the rear sight. There I want a ghost-ring on a ramp, and no allowance for a scope at all.

That should do for now, as long as I can keep what's in the cupboard already.

I am dreaming of a mated smaller rifle to my Wiebe ZG47 in 375 H&H. The rifle would be in 30-06 on a BRNO 21/22 or ZG47 with a #1 contour 21” barrel. Banded front sight and banded sling stud. Island rear with BRNO style insert. Lightweight well-figured stock to my dimensions with flat top checkering and a red Pachmayr pad. Topped with Alaska Arms rings and a Leupold 2.5-8x36 scope. Finished about 6.5lbs bare rifle and 7.5lbs scoped.

I have a pic somewhere of a dressel with a squared up LR mauser action in silver, blind box.

Wow! I can see these rifles in my head. Keep it up guys.

458 win mag on a mauser, 5+1, 23" stout barrel - no lightweight, wide single standing rear, banded bead front, flat barrel band, talley rings on welded bases, nice wood - nothing exhibition, engraved on the floorplate "He prayeth well who loveth well ⁠Both man and bird and beast"(Coleridge), 480 Woodleighs at 2150 and 450 TSX/FN Solids at 2250.

Or Frostbit's 450 NE Army and Navy...

My "dream" rifle has already been built, but I will never own it,

It would be the David Miller Co. rifle that was built as the SCI no. 1 Rifle for the Big 5 series of Rifles, and engraved by Lynton McKenzie. I saw it on display at Reno a number of years ago. The only thing I'd change would be the caliber - I wouldn't want it in .458 Win Mag. .338 Win Mag would be fine. And I'd want a scope on it.

Kolo, this one?

Biebs, that would be the one!

Exquisite!

Ross, something along these lines would do it for me :-)

https://www.westleyrichards.co...s/bolt-action-rifle/

Dressel

300 HandH on a medium Hagn action. Still formulating the engraving.

quote:

Originally posted by Biebs:
Ross, something along these lines would do it for me :-)

https://www.westleyrichards.co...s/bolt-action-rifle/

Biebs,
That is the 23year old beauty queen with a brain we all dream of. Not to mention other assets.

Mine would probably have to be something similar to this one, only chambered in a 7x57. I've always had a soft spot for the 7mm Mauser...

Holland and Holland 243 Rifle

saw a picture of a Mauser Kurtz action in 250 Savage. That would be it

Although probably not a true custom rifle, mine would be a early 1900's (1915-1920) Rigby 416 on a double square bridge magnum Mauser action. Nothing different than what came from the factory. I remember reading and seeing pics of Ross Seyfried's 416 Rigby, and that was the moment I found my perfect dream rifle...now just have to figure out how to pay for my dreams......

Mine would be a light, trim 7X57 built on a small ring Mauser, stocked Mannlicher style in Teyssier French walnut, by Don Klein and engraved in small English scroll by Dan Goodwin.

Even better, I had it built over 40 years ago and still cherish it as much today as I did when I first received it...

There are plenty of dream rifles on Ralf Martinis website.Just pick a caliber and options!

So many dream rifles, too little time!

I went the other way.

My dream rifle was meant to be used.

For everything.

I designed a cartridge that meets my requirements.

To hunt everything with.

I picked the Dakota 76 action.

Been on lots of safaris.

Two identical rifles.

Used by many hunters.

Never failed!

Edward, this is Dave from Cody. Can we see this 7x57 Mannlicher by Don Klein? He was a fellow Wisconsinite, that is where I got the custom gun fever. I hope it never leaves!