Thought it was about time to tart up the old girl...



A nice piece of Tasmanian Blackwood. The buttstock shown was made from an old Lee Enfield 303B stock, fore-end from my original 222R fox rifle from the '70s ( Larry Sims old rifle ) Calibre will be either 22-357 or 6mm-357 Max.

Roger

That’s going to be bloody gorgeous!

Yuma,

IMHO, you could do better by making a proper pistol grip, matching the lever to the curve. and inletting the lever into the front of the pistol grip. that would make it look like a proper British sporting rifle. There's plenty of wood in your blank.

I have one like that, with a .22 LR Shilen barrel and an ebony forearm tip. Another with a straight grip and an original barrel.

But that's just my preference.

My preference is also the English style stock, except that I've never liked those tiny splinter fore-ends.
As I have several Martini's this is one that I just wanted to do something different with...that's the beauty of these little gems, you can have a box full of different stocks, barrels and extractors and just swap them around.

Roger

Interesting shaping of the action sides.

Going to be pretty!

The one unfortunate thing about building a more modern sporter on one of these is that, to have reasonable chamber access one wants to mount the scope a bit higher. Raising the comb to suit loses you cleaning rod access from the rear.

I have one that solves that: it is a take-down.
But that one still wears irons. With the scoped ones I have I just made bore guides that slip over the muzzle.

This action is probably the one I've owned the longest, its been re-barrelled and re-stocked several times, used for different experimental cartridges, the sides were surface ground at some stage...don't remember why..the other side has three small tapped holes for a side mount and a hole in the rear of the action for a cleaning rod. I think the side was cut away to get your thumb in to push a cartridge into the chamber, not by done me...




.....back in the 70's, 222 rimmed and Parker Hale 303B....terrible scanned photo...


Roger