Early this year some Brnos found their way into my home. I felt for something new to do and decided to give them a a new life.



They were ripped apart and I'm doing some small changes on the metal, safeties etc, and I will make new stocks on them.



Will be continued.

The 600 has got some metal work and a new safety.

Is that some sort of lock on the wing safety?

I think EAW makes one like that, and I know Satterlee does.

Not EAW but Recknagel. It´s safety for safety wing.

That is correct. This one is made in Norway though..
It prevent the safety to accidentally be pushed out of the backer position when walking in dense bush etc.

Hello - Do you have plans to alter the triggers? Triggers on these actions are their sole "issue" IMHO.

I agree with you. The triggers need some attention.
I'm pretty lucky though, I have a very competent gunsmith close by.
It's no good to touch The trigger system for a novice like me

The 416 metal.

Nice

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This one is made in Norway though..

I think you have bought it from Ragnar Hansen. He sells Recknagel parts.

The 600 are getting new furniture.

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Originally posted by 9,3x74R:
The 416 metal.

Nice project. Will you keep the third bolt that screws into the rear sight base. I presume you will be bedding the whole of the sock to the action and barrel, rather than having a free floating barrel?

I'm a huge fan of the BRNO's. Keep us posted on the progress!

I have 3 I am building for client. Will end up with Duane's bottom metal, La Pour safeties and killer wood, oh and the classic German octagon to round with a full rib barrel profile on each of them. This project will take me a while.

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Originally posted by Heym SR20:
Nice project. Will you keep the third bolt that screws into the rear sight base. I presume you will be bedding the whole of the sock to the action and barrel, rather than having a free floating barrel?

The action/barrel is bedded down in the stock yes, and I have kept the 3rd screw just as the original BRNO barrels. I feel it's needed with that second recoil block bedded down in the fore end.
Will post a pic later..

TC1.
I'll post pics during the progress. My projects are slow at the moment though, it's summer and less time for hobbies.

The 30-06 (600) is soon about to move into its new home.
There is room for a few minor adjustments, install a grip cap and maybe a ivory fore end before the final sanding and oiling of the stock.
I haven't decided about a ebony fore end though.. Your thoughts?
The stock were moistened with water for the photo shoot

That is a dramatic piece of wood. Regarding the forend, I like them both ways. Nothing wrong in my mind at least leaving it as is.

My opinion on ebony tips is they go on boring wood, and not on nice wood. Something to dress up an otherwise nondescript stock.

Yours has decent figure in the forearm, so I would leave it be.

Jeremy

Nice stick of wood which can only get better with age.

Stephen

Have you given thought to what you'll do with the take off stocks, the one for the '06 in particular.

Heym SR20
Here's the inside of the 416 stock


Gojoe, I'm affraid that the 06 stock is gone. There seem to be a demand for original 600 and 601 stocks.

The steel on the 416 is finished and are being inspected by the alpha female of my home.

They are coming out well. Im keen to see any updates as imhave a coupke of zg47s in ghe ssfe im considering making new stocks for and cleaning up all the metalwork.

This project has been down for a while. I just lost it and have had plenty of other things to do like shuffle snow and walk Amie (my dog) and burn enormous amounts of firewood.

Anyways, I finally managed to kick my self in the butt, and the other night I took the project out of the safe.
I spent the first evening just watching it and tried to remember my plan for the stock.



No guts no glory. I grabbed the stock and cut it to a suitable length and then cut the ebony I had decided to use.
The ebony was then fitted and glued on.
After couple of days, I started to rasp the ebony and very light wood started to show. This was not what I want so I cut it off and started over again.







This time I checked the piece of ebony before mounting it.
The new piece of ivory also has some lighter parts but I decided to give it a try.



Shaping the outside and barrel channel took all night but st least I remembered to take a pic.




I have started to shape the ivory but for some reason I had to stop. I'm not sure if this is what I want.



So... I have put the action/barrel back in the wood. More cooffe and more sitting and watch it.



Need to figure out what's wrong.

Your drinking just coffee. That's what's wrong. Aren't you supposed to be sipping akevitt?

Just my two cents, but methinks the fore end tip is now a bit pointy/wedge shaped. I'd cut it back 1/2" and make is a bit more rounded.

Great work, so far. Looking forward to the final.

Jeremy

9,3x74R
Food for thought.

Thanks for your input.
Like i wrote earlier tonight, I have only started to shape the ebony.
I think the forearm are too chunky. And I am trying to slim it as we speak.






God knows how this is going to be in the end

I think in the end it will be quite nice.

Man. That is looking real good overall in that last picture. Looking forward to see how you shape the top edge - blunt or pointed.

Another just for reference.

You're killing me Terry!

TC posted exactly what I was thinking. Except, in my mind there is a whole rifle.

Jeremy

@ TC1.

AWESOME!

A small update.
I believe the pics tell the story here.

Nice work so far, plugs lined up with the grain. Have you considered using a steel grip cap? Seems like it would top off the style nicely. I have one custom with a ebony cap and it's not nearly as elegant.

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Originally posted by custombolt:
Have you considered using a steel grip cap?.

Yes I have considered steel.



I know that there is several of you guys that use a Brno or CZ action (600,602 or 550) either as an original rifle or in any kind of custom configuration.

I use both the 600 and 602s. I can only speak for my self but for me the ultimate action is the original old one with the integrated peep. I can't think of a better action/rifle for a good hard working safaririfle for an affordable price.

In my part of the world these integrated peep ones happens to be scarce and harder to find each day.

Both of my custom 602s (375 H&H and 416 Rigby) has the newer actions without those sought after peeps. And this has bothered me ever since I bought them.

Therefore I was very happy and pleased when I got to know John McLaughlin on a rifle site on Facebook,and he told me he could make his "Rigby style peeps" to fit a Brno action.

Halleluja. For me this is not a second best option but in my mind a top grade nice and "historic" upgrade to our great rifles.

What do you think? It looks great huh

Btw. I KNOW that these peeps work even better than they look! Can't wait to try them out.

It seems like most of the stock shaping is done.
The stock finally fit me the way I want, it feels good and the rifle point well.
Now it's just the small details that need to be fixed before oiling. The metal is also in for some care.
God knows this has taken me way too many hours to do, but my time is for free. Thank God. ..

Oh very nice. Those are classic beauties!
- Mike

Thank you Redstone.

Last night I had time to complete sanding with 380 grit.
When finished I dyed the stock with water.
Man, it's so cool and satisfying to see the potential of color and grain.

Next step before more sanding will be to cut to correct length.

I'm having a hard time to decide if to use a red rubber pad or make a black leather one..

Thoughts?