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I have a rifle that was given to me by a friend. On the barrel it says by MALM. Does anyone here know who that is? I'm just trying to find out some info and it seems hard to come by. Thanks in advance. | ||
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Guy Malmborg , maybe. Excellent gunsmith out of SLC. Passed away 4-5 years ago. Was a frequent contributor here, used malm as his screen name. http://forums.accuratereloadin...&forum_scope=9411043 | |||
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Okay, I'm in Utah so that makes sense. My friend who gave me the rifle lives in Salt Lake. He did mention that he thought the gunsmith was no longer around. The gun in question is a Browning A-bolt with a heavy contour, fluted, .375 Weatherby barrel. It's a shame if this smith is no longer around. Was he an older gentleman? Did he specialize in any type of gunsmithing? | |||
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 +1He actually went as "Malm" up until around 7/2007. He got in trouble with one or two of his posts. He returned and posted until his last post dated 6/1/13 as "Westpac". He was an excellent reference and is missed. As usual just my $.02 Paul K | |||
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I've been going through his old threads. Seems like a funny guy. I believe he mentions the gun I have in the thread "who's synthetic stock" he mentions a friends .375 Improved having a ramline stock and that is what this one has. It puzzled me because it seems like such a nice gun and to have a ramline on it seems out of place. I pulled the stock to have a look and it has been bedded and looks to be a good job. I was originally thinking of getting a better stock that might soak up recoil a little better. | |||
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malm was amazing on bullet making, as well --- the ramline stock will accordion in the mag well, which may not lead to great consistency opinions vary band of bubbas and STC hunting Club Information on Ammoguide about the416AR, 458AR, 470AR, 500AR What is an AR round? Case Drawings 416-458-470AR and 500AR. 476AR, http://www.weaponsmith.com | |||
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Guy was a world-class gunsmith and a wonderful friend. He passed way too young and I miss his counsel. Don't waste money on a new stock until you find out how it shoots. If Guy put it together it will work well as is. John Farner If you haven't, please join the NRA! | |||
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I took it out and shot it once. At a local Turkey shoot, shooting long range steel. I did win a round with it shooting the ammo it came with. Not bad considering I'd never fired the gun before. That ammo would have been loaded by Malm as well. There were 2 different 300 grain loads he had worked up. Both loads came with test targets showing MOA groups. One of them is about .75" | |||
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I really hate that Malm is gone. He did a few pistol jobs for me. Work was great, quick, and reasonable. After he passed away the Family called to see if any guns or parts in his shop belonged to me. All of my work was returned by Malm, but I appreciated the Family handling his business. | |||
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I worry about some of the history of this site being lost. Would be quite nice to have a sticky of all the contributors who have passed and a link to their posts? Still miss MHO | |||
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Malm's wife died. He died within six months, possibly from a broken heart. He helped me with a Ruger who's ring base cuts were not even. That rifle continues to shoot tiny groups. I sold it to a friend who calls it the stealth sniper rifle.  | |||
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Guy Malmborg was born April 4, 1952 and left this world on June 6, 2013 while doing one of the things he loved most. Guy was born in Garfield, Utah and was raised in Magna where he attended Cyprus High School on a part time basis. He might have graduated with his class in 1970, however there was a war raging in Vietnam, and in 1969, on his 17th birthday, he enlisted in the United States Marine Corps. He served with the 1st Air and Naval Gunfire Liaison Company and served overseas with WESPAC ground forces. Besides this, Guy was a husband, father, brother, grandfather, master gunsmith, scuba instructor, rescue diver, drummer, photographer, welder, auto body technician, law enforcement officer, motorcycle mechanic, fly fisherman, expert rifleman and generally a good guy. He was optomistic and conservative in his views. He is known to have run into a burning building one night to rescue trapped and injured people, and it is said and witnessed by many, that he even chased down a car one night on foot, to get a hit and run, drunken driver out from behind the steering wheel and hold him until the police showed up. Guy was one to get involved, and feared nothing. He fixed, tuned, and re-barreled at least a 1/2 dozen guns for me and the work was always superb. Mike Legistine actu quod scripsi? Never under estimate the internet community's ability to reply to your post with their personal rant about their tangentially related, single occurrence issue.  What I have learned on AR, since 2001: 1. The proper answer to: Where is the best place in town to get a steak dinner? is…You should go to Mel's Diner and get the fried chicken. 2. Big game animals can tell the difference between .015 of an inch in diameter, 15 grains of bullet weight, and 150 fps. 3. There is a difference in the performance of two identical projectiles launched at the same velocity if they came from different cartridges. 4. While a double rifle is the perfect DGR, every 375HH bolt gun needs to be modified to carry at least 5 down. 5. While a floor plate and detachable box magazine both use a mechanical latch, only the floor plate latch is reliable. Disregard the fact that every modern military rifle uses a detachable box magazine. 6. The Remington 700 is unreliable regardless of the fact it is the basis of the USMC M40 sniper rifle for 40+ years with no changes to the receiver or extractor and is the choice of more military and law enforcement sniper units than any other rifle. 7. PF actions are not suitable for a DGR and it is irrelevant that the M1, M14, M16, & AK47 which were designed for hunting men that can shoot back are all PF actions. 8. 95 deg F in Africa is different than 95 deg F in TX or CA and that is why you must worry about ammunition temperature in Africa (even though most safaris take place in winter) but not in TX or in CA. 9. The size of a ding in a gun's finish doesn't matter, what matters is whether it’s a safe ding or not. 10. 1 in a row is a trend, 2 in a row is statistically significant, and 3 in a row is an irrefutable fact. 11. Never buy a WSM or RCM cartridge for a safari rifle or your go to rifle in the USA because if they lose your ammo you can't find replacement ammo but don't worry 280 Rem, 338-06, 35 Whelen, and all Weatherby cartridges abound in Africa and back country stores. 12. A well hit animal can run 75 yds. in the open and suddenly drop with no initial blood trail, but the one I shot from 200 yds. away that ran 10 yds. and disappeared into a thicket and was not found was lost because the bullet penciled thru. I am 100% certain of this even though I have no physical evidence. 13. A 300 Win Mag is a 500 yard elk cartridge but a 308 Win is not a 300 yard elk cartridge even though the same bullet is travelling at the same velocity at those respective distances. | |||
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