cleaned this one up a bit

16 July 2014, 04:36

A really rusty old Fark, my PC was hit by lighting so no before pictures. We cut down the sides of the action .015" to remove the deep pitting and hand polished the remainder, new scratching by Charles Lee, We fit a new 26" Krieger tube in 450/400 with a quarter rib, custom scope bases, shop made front sight and gave it a rust blue. The client made what I feel to be an excellent choice of a Noseke scope which is 7/8" in diameter and looks great while providing the extra eye relief needed to effectively scope a single shot rifle while not cutting into the front ring of the action. We did not do the stock work on this rifle.
Steve

16 July 2014, 05:05

bwanamrm

Oh wow... I like it!

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

Life grows grim without senseless indulgence.

16 July 2014, 05:21

pennfly

Sure would be fun to shoot a cow elk with.

16 July 2014, 09:38

Michael Robinson

Nice work. Do you know who originally made the action?

16 July 2014, 15:54

xausa

Here's a couple of "Before" photos, after being restocked by Fajan to duplicate the original oil soaked stock:

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I found this rifle in the vault of Kenya Bunduki, a gun store in Nairobi, Kenya, in 1972. It was fitted with a 450/400 barrel devoid of any maker's name and was in deplorable condition. Once I got it home, I had it restocked and rebarreled to .50 Alaskan, since its parent case, .348 Winchester, was the largest Boxer primed rimmed case which was then easily available. The .510" caliber barrel was from John Buhmiller. the famous barrel maker, gunsmith, cartridge developer and African hunter. It stayed in that shape until a couple of years ago, when I turned it over to Steve to work his magic on it.

16 July 2014, 22:20

Woodhits

Looks great, love to see the Farqs live to hunt again. One day I'll find the right one.

16 July 2014, 22:25

Atkinson

Must be Steve B !

I would dearly like to rent that old gun and go shoot something with it..it is beautiful, I dearly hope its a 450-400 that would be perfect. I'd have to shoot something big with that! I would sorely be tempted to replace that old Weaver with a 3X Leupold but then maybe not!