Maybe not custom but a very rare rifle. H. Koon, founder of Ranger Arms, Omega Arms and Alpha Arms designed and built this rifle. It's serial #5. About 1000 of the Flower Mound, Tx rifles were made before the design was sold to Hi-Shear of Calif. Hi-Shear tried to make the rifles with modern manuf techniques but failed and the manuf soon ceased. This rifle was sold by H. Koon to Daniel McPeak Sr, an executive with Hi-Shear. His son, Daniel McPeak Jr, is my best friend. The rifle has an extra special stock with unusual European oak leaf carving in the grip and forearm areas. It also has an "M" for McPeak inlayed on the grip cap. For the record, ALL Omega III rifles were fired at the point of manufacturing. I know this because I talked to Duncan F. Koon, son of H. Koon, just a few nights ago and he verified this fact. The rifle was designed as a light weight take down, removing just one screw to quickly remove the butt stock from the barreled action. This rifle is in 300 Win Mag. I'm putting it up for sale once I figure out what to charge for it.

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Square bolt face with a 3-round internal rotary magazine.

Beautiful rifle and very interesting design.

I had one in 300Winbag also. Sold it to a buddy just down the road so I still have visitation rights :-)

The stock on mine was also very nice but not carved like that one. SN was 5xx. This was b4 digital so I don't have pics of it. Good Luck

It's unusual, that's for sure. I'm not sure it would win any beauty contests though. My aesthetic is shamelessly biased toward classic Mausers actions assembled and stocked by traditional British gun makers.

Finely executed rifle. Form-wise it looks like the end of the evolutionary trail of the Swiss 1881 rifles.

If I could afford it, I would just say the "M" stood for Mine. Nice rifle.

It is nice. I had one several years ago. It was a 6-284. Never cared for it and sold it promptly. My taste just didn't run that way.

I had one in 1998. Mine looked nearly identical to yours, but without the carving. It was a well machined machine, and everything worked as planned.

Overall, the design didn't fix anything I needed fixed, so the 'oddness' of it was a bit of a turn off. I paid $1000 for it, and after trying to sell it for a year, I found one guy that liked it and he bought it from me for the same.

I think these are a perfect example to demonstrate the difference between 'rare' and 'desirable'. While certainly rare (and even well done), they aren't particularly desirable.