This rifle now belongs to a friend who lent it to me because I want to duplicate the checkering pattern on the two CZ's that I am currently stocking.
Ed Lundberg and I laid out this pattern and Ted Nicklaus checkered it. Old Ted was never quite sure what made for an elegant rifle but, if you laid out a pattern for him, he could checker like an angel.
Dick Wright
Posts: 669 | Location: Michigan | Registered: 27 March 2014
I don't remember where the Mex action or the blank came from. All metal work and rust blueing was done by Herman Waldron. Ted checkered it after I whittled out and finished the stock. It has a Canjar trigger set at 3 lbs.
I sold it to a friend, Kim, who immediately sent it to Jack Haugh for engraving. Since Kim has made it a lifetime goal to never shoot his guns, I'm quite sure that the last time this gun was fired was back in the 80's when I shot a fat, frying-pan-size whitetail for meat.
Dick Wright
Posts: 669 | Location: Michigan | Registered: 27 March 2014
Very nice work on that rifle. No offense but the first name that came to mind when I saw the rifle was Al Biesen!
On the plains of hesitation lie the bleached bones of ten thousand, who on the dawn of victory lay down their weary heads resting, and there resting, died.
If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue, Or walk with Kings - nor lose the common touch... Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it, And - which is more - you'll be a Man, my son! - Rudyard Kipling
I can attest to the elegance of this rifle, being what we all hope to achieve in our projects. The only thing wrong with it is it's not living in Colorado Springs with me...
Edward Lundberg
Posts: 348 | Location: Colorado Springs, CO | Registered: 13 July 2007