Darwin Hensley 7x57

24 November 2010, 02:09

nyrifleman

Darwin Hensley 7x57

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

24 November 2010, 02:28

PerH

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 .

24 November 2010, 04:22

ColoradoMatt

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
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24 November 2010, 04:42

cmfic1

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

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24 November 2010, 05:17

D Humbarger

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24 November 2010, 06:34

Nomo4me

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.

24 November 2010, 07:02

gunmaker

Nice rifle, wonder who did the metalwork?

quote:
Originally posted by PerH:
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 .

You mean your wife won't let you have more than 6 guns?

25 November 2010, 17:57

Trax

quote:
Originally posted by ColoradoMatt:
... or perhaps another small ring that has had the G33/40 lightening treatment...

I heard this said before by others, please tell what this "other" small ring action might be.
I remain unaware of any such thing.

25 November 2010, 18:23

ColoradoMatt

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.

25 November 2010, 19:28

Jerry Liles

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

25 November 2010, 19:46

Nomo4me

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.

25 November 2010, 23:09

Trax

quote:
Originally posted by ColoradoMatt:
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 think that there is a polish small ring 98 as well. WZ29 perhaps?

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?

26 November 2010, 07:28

SR4759

The 98/09 Peruvian was an intermediate length action with Large Ring and Small Thread.