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Someone needs to post these, and then buy it before I do something that results in a divorce. http://www.gunsinternational.c...cfm?gun_id=100155730 Doug | ||
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If i can do it any worse for you, we have a 6 gun limit on hunting guns over here and my gun wardrobe is overfilled to the point i must sell down to 5 guns before i can get another license for a new rifle . Well i think i must get a gunmaker to dress up the m98 i have to look like that one afterwards . was mr Rigby before a pc crash | |||
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The pictures don't come out very large on the website. I googled Robert, Bain and the pictures on that website are larger. It looks to me to be a G33/40 action that has been cleaned up and the SN# restamped or perhaps another small ring that has had the G33/40 lightening treatment. Very cool rifle regardless. The checkering is outstanding. Matt FISH!! Heed the words of Winston Smith in Orwell's 1984: "Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street building has been renamed, every date has been altered. And the process is continuing day by day and minute by minute. History has stopped. Nothing exists except an endless present in which the Party is always right." | |||
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Matt and others, if you click on the pictures on the website, they will pop up about 30% screen size. Beautiful gun BTW, the Hensleys do/did an awesome job. Rod -------------------------------- "A hunter should not choose the cal, cartridge, and bullet that will kill an animal when everything is right; rather, he should choose ones that will kill the most efficiently when everything goes wrong" Bob Hagel | |||
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  Doug Humbarger NRA Life member Tonkin Gulf Yacht Club 72'73. Yankee Station Try to look unimportant. Your enemy might be low on ammo. | |||
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I'd guess that's Darwin's mid-80's work. Looks quite conventional compared to his later work but hints as to where he was headed are there, such as the detailing under the bolt release. | |||
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Nice rifle, wonder who did the metalwork?
You mean your wife won't let you have more than 6 guns? | |||
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I heard this said before by others, please tell what this "other" small ring action might be. I remain unaware of any such thing. | |||
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Erfurt or danzig 1917. They are small ring large thread actions. There may be more, but these are the ones that I know of. I have a barreled action squirrled away. I could be wrong, but I think that there is a polish small ring 98 as well. WZ29 perhaps? I once saw a very nice 270WCF built by Gene Simillion on an Erfurt action. Matt FISH!! Heed the words of Winston Smith in Orwell's 1984: "Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street building has been renamed, every date has been altered. And the process is continuing day by day and minute by minute. History has stopped. Nothing exists except an endless present in which the Party is always right." | |||
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Beautiful rifle. On the side view of the action left side there is a square tab extending up at the level of the rear of the bolt stop box. Any idea what that is? Jerry Liles | |||
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Root of the raised bolt handle. I did notice that Darwin crafted a slight raised lip under the action cutout bevel. In later guns this lip would become more pronounced. This one appears to be crafted in a piece of Morrocan Walnut that was available back then. I had beautiful piece of it - the smell when working was very exotic, intoxicating even to a wood nut. | |||
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One could grind & machine any one of a broad variety of common LR-large thread M98 to outwardly resemble a VZ33 or G33/40. To be more specific,.. were there any other small thread std.length M98 produced that one could machine to clone a VZ33 or G33/40? | |||
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The 98/09 Peruvian was an intermediate length action with Large Ring and Small Thread. | |||
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