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Gentlemen,
I just purchased a Ruger #1 in 9.3x74 and have also purchased a semi-inletted 2-piece exhibition Bastogne replacement stock. I am looking for someone to finish her out (classic oil finish, of course)and checker her for me. I am not looking for the cheapest or fastest but someone who will do a quality job at a fair price and turn this into a rifle I can be proud to carry. Would like to stay in Texas, but don't have to... any ideas?


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John Valicek (Val-a-check) in Canyon Lake Texas.

(830) 964-5813


As usual just my $.02
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lets go shoot the #1.... ive got about 7 1/2 boxes of S&B factory ammo... the spotting scope stays in my pickup....ready to use....


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I just purchased a Ruger #1 in 9.3x74

I didn't know they existed so I have already asked my buddy (a dealer) to get me a price.


As usual just my $.02
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k.w. lloyd hwy 12 vidor tx.


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John Valicek (Val-a-check) in Canyon Lake Texas.

(830) 964-5813


He did the re-work on my Whitworth for Tip Burns and did Rusty's .404s if I recall correctly.
 
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John Valicek (Val-a-check) in Canyon Lake Texas.



Thanks, will call him tomorrow!


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.
 
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John did the stock work on the .458 Win Mag Tip built for me on a Springfield action. He did a fine job.

Mike


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Gentlemen,
Thanks again for sending me John's phone number and providing references. I spoke with him on the phone today and he is a super nice guy. He is taking on my project and I am dropping rifle and stock off to him on Friday. Will let you know how it turns out!


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.
 
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Gentlemen,
Thanks again for sending me John's phone number and providing references. I spoke with him on the phone today and he is a super nice guy. He is taking on my project and I am dropping rifle and stock off to him on Friday. Will let you know how it turns out!


I hope everything goes perfectly for you.

We will need lots of pictures!
 
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Yep,
John a great fellow and does awesome work!


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Update on the Ruger 1S in 9.3x74R that John finished for me last week. You gentlemen were right... he does excellent work!




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.
 
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Beautiful Rifle. thumb


As usual just my $.02
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Three month turnaround?!
His peers may kick him out of the profession for not making you wait a couple of years and not giving you the run-around.

The rifle really looks nice. We want to see a range report posted here by Sunday evening. Have fun with that rifle.


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YES!

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very nice rifle!!!!!!


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John is refinishing my double. His talent and turnaround are unmached. His a pretty darn nice guy too. Wink

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That was your Wm. Douglas double? Very nice... I think you will be very pleased with it when you get it back!


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.
 
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bwanamrm,

Yep thats mine, John is replacing the slivers pad with a nice soft pad. He is also slimming down that Beavertail forarm into more of a splinter. The William Douglass is the best value IMO on the used double rifle market. It would take 25-30K plus to re-produce it now.

John is one of the very few that I would trust with a double even to restock. He is a truly gifted.

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I'm glad you found John. He is great. I also use Tip Burns as my gunsmith.

Bob


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My project is already about a year longer than planned and I still do not have it off to a stockmaker....maybe this will be my guy too????
 
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Bob

You made a good selection too, Tip is a true crafsman. Some of his work is truly amazing and he is so nonchalant about it.

505ED


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I know this post is old but how does the WD look with the splinter fore end? I have a WD and I am thinking of getting the same work done to mine plus a grip cap with trap, They are a great rifle any pics of the work? Thanks

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bwanamrm,

Yep thats mine, John is replacing the slivers pad with a nice soft pad. He is also slimming down that Beavertail forarm into more of a splinter. The William Douglass is the best value IMO on the used double rifle market. It would take 25-30K plus to re-produce it now.

John is one of the very few that I would trust with a double even to restock. He is a truly gifted.

505ED


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Dang! That man does do some fine work! Congratulations on your new rifle!


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----- David Crockett in his last letter (to his children), January 9th, 1836
"I will never forsake Texas and her cause. I am her son." ----- Jose Antonio Navarro, from Mexican Prison in 1841
"for I have sworn upon the altar of god eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man." Thomas Jefferson
Declaration of Arbroath April 6, 1320-“. . .It is not for glory, nor riches, nor honours that we are fighting, but for freedom - for that alone, which no honest man gives up but with life itself.”
 
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