So let's build the full blown custom rifle of your dreams with all the bells and whistles. Something that'd make you shiver just looking at it. What barrel, stock, engraving, options ? Who's gonna do the work ?
Thing is the base action is an NEF Handi Rifle, the ultimate in controlled round feed, one at a time.
Posts: 1295 | Location: 3rd Planet from the Sun | Registered: 24 April 2003
Well, you start out with the most expensive model NEF handi-rifle and you sell it and use the money for a down payment on a nice commercial mauser action and............ you get the picture, Roger.
Posts: 495 | Location: South Texas | Registered: 13 November 2003
Jim, I was just being sarcastic. Shame on me. I don't believe anyone has given this fellow the answers he was looking for. Or, maybe he was just being sarcastic, too. Roger.
Posts: 495 | Location: South Texas | Registered: 13 November 2003
.458 Win Mag, short light weight barrel, light weight fiberglass stock with steel butt plate, short narrow light weight forend, nickle plated receiver, full engraving on all metal surfaces in full floral pattern by the owner using his new "gravemaster" engraving tool. Stock to be "carved" with the owners full name by the owner. Light weight short eye relief scope, nickle plated and engraved to "match" the rifle, mounted in light weight aluminum mounts. If just the "thought" of this does not make you "shiver", then the first shot fired ought to do the trick. Have fun, this was presented in "fun" only of course, no one would want to use aluminum scope mounts.
Clasic
Posts: 33 | Location: United States | Registered: 25 December 2002
Finally, a Handi Rifle artisan . Of course I'm being a bit sarcastic about the action choice here but you know what ? Based on the talent I see in evidence by the rifle pics posted here I gotta say that some of these guys could very well turn a sows ear like the Handi Rifle into a silk purse (or as close as you can get).
I can see it now, a 45/70 Handi DGR with a Krieger barrel specially made for hard cast bullets. Integral quarter rib with 3 leaf express sights and an NEGC adjustable front sight, banded. Stocked in English walnut in a British Express rifle pattern, Silvers pad, barrel band sling swivel. Talley QD rings holding a Swarovski. And engraved on both sides of the reciever with scenes of a guy getting gored by a buffalo and stomped by an elephant.
Posts: 1295 | Location: 3rd Planet from the Sun | Registered: 24 April 2003
My 45/70 handi rifle is strong, accurate, lightweight, only cost me $100, and combines the sharp stabbing recoil with the big push that leaves me a couple feet back.
As a 180 pound man, it reminds me of shooting a 12 gauge when I weighed 80 pounds.
I've hit the custom rifle program from just about every direction and angle since I had my first one built back back when I first got out of college some twenty-five years ago.
Regardless of price or cosmetic novelty, the best custom rifles I've ever owned are the ones I've had D'Arcy Echols build on Model 70 actions. The ones I own are the "Legend" version with D'Arcy's own McMillan fiberglass stock, full metalwork features, plus extras like custom bottommetal and checkered bolt-release from Tom Burgess. As go-anywhere, do-anything, all-purpose, serious hunting rifles, these have done it all for me with absolutely no problems - just solid, 100% reliable performance.
No, they don't feature beautiful walnut stocks or fine engraving, but at this stage of my hunting career, I really don't care.
