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What is the advantage of the one piece bottom metal? Is it for look's or stiffnes? I saw a Sunny Hill$$ on a friend new custom rifle and could not justify spending more money instead of using the factory one and then again I new to custom rifle world. | ||
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<Daryl Elder> |
One advantage is the one piecers are easier to bed. Another is no torque on the action from that middle screw. | ||
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I agree with Allen....but that is not to say the original bottom metal on a M-70 or a Mauser is not usable and they can be modified very nicely, but I normally just use Blackburn bottom metal on all my customs unless a particular gun such as my JP Sauer that I'm restocking, needs to keep the origenality as close as possibel...It will use the original bottom metal, double set triggers etc. the two piece bottom metal on a M-70 Win is very usable on say a plastic stocked or laminated stocked rifle etc...it would however hurt the value of a full blown custom rifle... ------------------ | |||
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Ray, I ordered Blackburn bottom metal for a mod 70 in 270 that is being rebarrelled and restocked to be a nice 9.3x62. This project is taking time but it's coming along nicely so far. | |||
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Stu, Now thats a gun to make me shiver and break into a cold sweat..I built one for myself just like that a couple of years ago on a pre-64 action with a round knob grip and a piece of exceptionally red claro that I had been hording for a century....It was a dandy little rifle but Bill Cauthen who posts here from time to time lets his sweet little wife fanagle me out of that gun, and she hammered a nice Buffalo with it. One shot and down in 40 yards.... I am building another 9.3x62 as we speak on a Jp Sauer with a 20" oct. full ribbed barrel on a single C ring Mauser action, butterknife bolt. I'm stocking it in the original Obendorf style, round knob grip, panels, schenable forend. It will be set up for irons, but it has claw mounts and will sport a 2.5 Leupold Alaskan..I should be finished in a month or so..It's in the shaped French walnut stock now...Will be the first short barreled gun that I have owned for 20 years, but thats the way it came, and I probably need a short gun anyway, yeah right!... The French walnut on this piece is not real fancy but it is the absolute hardest piece of wood that I have ever worked with it actually shines under the knife cut..was very hard to inlet...It will be stable as a diamond. harder than woodpecker lips... ------------------ | |||
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