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

Hope you don't use that layout for the forend. Diving grainflow with a knot through your German helmut.