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This one has been in the works for the past year or so. It was just completed with the help[ of Michael (MDStewart) here on AR, and his band of gunsmiths. I started out with a NIB 450-400, then added a custom reshaped stock, Ebony forend tip, inlet swivel stud, steel grip cap, and a red recoil pad. Parts were supplied by NECG. The wood is better than it appears in the photos...I'll try to get some more in the right light.         online image upload link | ||
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Very nice! How does it shoot? ------------------------------- Some Pictures from Namibia Some Pictures from Zimbabwe An Elephant Story | |||
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Very nice! ya! GWB | |||
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Charles, I've never shot it. I bought the rifle NIB and sent it off for the custom work. | |||
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Biebs, Very nice looking rifle, in a super caliber! The wood is gorgeous, and I am anxious to see your ‘improved’ photos. I particularly like the checkering of the forearm. It is unique, to me at least, and seems to ‘fit’ the design of the rifle’s forend. Artistically envisioned. | |||
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Jon, great choice of platform and cartridge. I am sure that stock will help with the recoil. There is hope, even when your brain tells you there isn’t. – John Green, author | |||
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The wood looks plenty good to me. Dave | |||
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I agree; wood looks fantastic. Biebs, having bought guns off you before, you know I like you, but I really dislike forend tips that are angled like that. Rounded is much better. But to each his own; I know a lot of smiths do that. Hey, I like Schnabel tips and some guys can't stand them. But then, I am not a Blaser fan either... | |||
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I really like the British style forend tip! It would be even better with a pancake cheek piece! Certainly a beautiful rifle.
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Seriously NICE looking rifle!!! | |||
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Kind of looks like a Blaser, doesn't it? :-) | |||
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Send it to me and I will change that ugly-ass forend tip with that piece of Ebony of yours.  Jim Kobe 10841 Oxborough Ave So Bloomington MN 55437 952.884.6031 Professional member American Custom Gunmakers Guild | |||
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it will be for sale by next week  even suggesting that it resembles a blaser could get you hung  | |||
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Beautiful!!! | |||
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Yes, I have my eye on the latest gem from the Mossberg Custom Shop! :-) | |||
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No.1s do make a nice custom, that’s for sure. The 450/400 is a good choice too as it is already in a different class. It has class I should say. I have a similar custom and don’t think I will be selling any time soon. | |||
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Yes, I've always loved the #1, but being a wood lover, I can't stomach their factory wood. | |||
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Nice job, except... Jim Kobe 10841 Oxborough Ave So Bloomington MN 55437 952.884.6031 Professional member American Custom Gunmakers Guild | |||
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You can't stomach No. 1 factory wood but you somehow give Blasers a pass?  Oi Vey!!!  | |||
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Thought about going down to check my safe, I have an 1885 with a wood grain pattern almost identical to that. Nice. I just sold my 450-400 last spring. It was a lot of fun. Krieghoff Classic 30R Blaser Stevens 044-1/2 218 Bee Ruger #1A 7-08 Rem 700 7-08 Tikka t3x lite 6.5 creedmo Tikka TAC A1 6.5 creedmo Win 1885 300H&H. 223Rem Merkel K1 7 Rem mag CCFR | |||
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I am looking to receive a #1 (243win) a smith has been working on for me some quite some time. They are a marvelous platform to begin with. cannot wait for mine. Dark mineral english, some case color hardening, and some machine turning on the block. Hard to go wrong on a custom #1. Biebs: Beautiful piece | |||
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Awesome rifle! You had better send it to me before your Blasers get jealous!  Rusty We Band of Brothers! DRSS, NRA & SCI Life Member "I am rejoiced at my fate. Do not be uneasy about me, for I am with my friends." ----- 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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Long gone, Rusty :-) | |||
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Gorgeous rifle, the Blaser can't compare! Frank "I don't know what there is about buffalo that frightens me so.....He looks like he hates you personally. He looks like you owe him money." - Robert Ruark, Horn of the Hunter, 1953 NRA Life, SAF Life, CRPA Life, DRSS lite | |||
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