The barrelled action for my Springfield custom is ready, and waiting on stock duplicating.

It is a 240 Weatherby and will be stocked in marbled English to match the Enfield I have in 240. The barrel is half octagon, half round. The rear express sights actually have an octagon base. I had a new bolt handle welded on, as the old one turned out to be cracked. The bolt and follower were jeweled. I put a set of Warne rings on to see how they looked, but plan on switching to Warne quick release, in a lowere height. I kept the Springfield bottom metal, but modified it to make it a little "lighter" looking, and relieved the rear of the floorplate in a cove contour that leads into the tapered trigger guard. I did this so I could thin the grip around the rear of the trigger guard and shape the grip to allow better access to the trigger. Sort of liked a stock on a dropped magazine, without the dropped magazine. We'll see how this works out

Love it!

Interesting project.

If it's not stocked yet, why is it blued already?

Looks good! Isn't the 240 a magnum length cardtridge? (forgive me guys, not familiar with the weatherbys but thought they were all long) what did you have to do to accomodate it?

Red

Well, it's blued because I goofed up. I did the metal work (fitted sights, crowned barrel, safety, altered trigger guard, scope mounts etc. However, since I had never done a Springfield barrel, didn't have the proper bit, and it was an octagon which had to be timed, I sent it to a smith while I was having two other actions blued. They all went in one box, and my instructions in retrospect weren't too clear. I will try to inlet without damaging the blue. Likely won't happen.

The 240 is a 30-06 length cartridge, as is the 257 (qnd I believe the 270 and 7mm). The rest are longer. The 240 is also a 30-06 bolt head size, so most actions will work with no adjustment.

The 240 Wby is like a 243 on steroids. Great deer and Antelope round.