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JCalhoun · Posted: Sat Feb 23, 2008 6:55 pm Post subject: Rifle pics

Let's see what you fellas are using for long range shooting.

Here's mine:

It's a Savage Model 110 action with a Sharp Shooter Supply trigger, stock, recoil lug, and bolt handle. Barrel is a 30" Broughton chambered in 7mm WSM. Scope is a Leupold Vari-X II 6-18X40 AO with Ken Farrell base and rings.

It is primarily a 600y & 1000y target rifle but I hope to one day be able to do some long distance varmint shooting with it.

CVC · Joined: 04 Mar 2006 Posts: 938 Location: Kansas

Well it sure is pretty and accurate too I bet.

Don Fischer · Joined: 24 Mar 2005 Posts: 1993 Location: Antelope, Ore

Gonna have to put mine on here tomorrow. Need to get a photo of it. Looks like a 700BDL because it is. But it's in 6.5-06 with a 26" Shilen barrel, heavy mag taper. 4.5-14x Nikon in Leupold one pice base and rings. Weight's 9 1/2# MTY. The trigger is the factory Rem that I took down to 3#. The stock has been relieved everywhere and the the action bedded and the barrel floated from the action forward.

It was supposed to have had a 1-8 twist but had trouble with 140gr bullets. Turns out it's a 1-9! Finally started shooting some Sierras again in it and the only 140gr I found that would shoot well was the 140gr MK. Have only shot it to 500yds but it shoots 3 1/2" group's with disgusting regularity. I'll get a photo tomorrow.

That's a nice rifle JC. I just can't get close to plastic stocks tho. Have a Rem factory on a 700ADL, junk. Keep thinking I'll try a good one some day but I love wood!

JCalhoun · Posted: Sat Feb 23, 2008 9:09 pm Post subject:

Thanks for the compliments.

Don;
My next target rifle is going to have a laminated wood stock. I would like to use a hardwood stock but prices for a target stock are cost prohibitive now.

Don Fischer · Joined: 24 Mar 2005 Posts: 1993 Location: Antelope, Ore

Friend of mine had a walnut/maple laminate. He said it was hard to inlet. Heavy too. I'd like to have a walnut/walnut laminate. I do like them.

italianhunter · Joined: 04 Feb 2008 Posts: 12 Location: Florence, Italy

This is my long range hunting choice. Sako TRG 42 in 338Lapua Magnum and Zeiss 6-24 x 56 mil dot reticle. Yesterday i shot a Roe Deer at 675 meters. One shot one kill! Sierra 250 grs at 900/ms.

italianhunter · Joined: 04 Feb 2008 Posts: 12 Location: Florence, Italy

Those are my hunting place

italianhunter · Joined: 04 Feb 2008 Posts: 12 Location: Florence, Italy

this is a magic moment

Don Fischer · Joined: 24 Mar 2005 Posts: 1993 Location: Antelope, Ore

Here it is. If I were to do this over, I'd do a 6.5x270 Gibbs. Hear a lot of good things about the Gibbs version and would use the 270 case for a bit longer neck and cases I don't and won't have a rifle for. I refinished the stock with Tru Oil a couple years ago and gouged it out to bed in Micro Bed for the action and floated the whole barrel. I think a walnut/walnut laminated stock in thumb hole would be nice!

I was up at Night force several years ago and the kid that owns it has a 308 Bare in a laminated maple stock w/30" barrel weights 35#.

JCalhoun · Posted: Tue Feb 26, 2008 7:35 pm Post subject:

Very nice rifles fellas! :D

Don Fischer · Joined: 24 Mar 2005 Posts: 1993 Location: Antelope, Ore

Hey you guys. Do those rifles you have have a bedding block for the action? I've thought I'd like to try one. Either that or the Darrel Holland system that floatf the action and the barrel in front of the chamber.

JCalhoun · Posted: Sat Mar 01, 2008 11:52 am Post subject:

The stock on mine has a block but I imagine that is because it's fiberglass. I still epoxy bedded the action.

7mm Magnum · Joined: 16 Mar 2008 Posts: 50 Location: Ossineke, Michigan

This is my 7mm Magnum,... I've bedded action, and floated the barrel, I've reset the trigger to a crisp 2 1/2 lb. pull.

It has a Leupold VXL Long Range 4.5-14X56 scope with a Harris swivel mount bi-pod. I have developed my own handloads for it, and it shoots sub-moa @ 100 yards

The stock is a semi-inletted Boyd's laminate stock that I completed in both fit and finish.

I love this rifle!

Don Fischer · Joined: 24 Mar 2005 Posts: 1993 Location: Antelope, Ore

Terry,

Friend of mine had a laminate on a 264 Win back in the early 70's. Liked his stock, looked just like yours. How much trouble was it to gouge out the barrel channel? My friend said it was tuff. Oh, his was heavy also. Not a carrying around rifle.

7mm Magnum · Joined: 16 Mar 2008 Posts: 50 Location: Ossineke, Michigan

Don Fischer wrote: Terry,

Friend of mine had a laminate on a 264 Win back in the early 70's. Liked his stock, looked just like yours. How much trouble was it to gouge out the barrel channel? My friend said it was tuff. Oh, his was heavy also. Not a carrying around rifle.

Don,.. it wasn't TOO bad,.. I have a plethora of tools at my disposal. A good hand rasp and a dremmel tool to do the clean-up before all of the hand work detailing. I personally think the worst part of the job was the thumbhole area.

You have to go VERY slowly, and be careful NOT to take too much material from crucial structural areas. This was my 2nd stock I made for the same action and barrel. My first one was a Claro Walnut blank that I did in a varminter stock pattern (another thumbhole stock) This took me well over 320 hours to shape, inlet, and channel out. I did a complete tung-oil finish on the final assembly with rosewood caps. That took another 20-30 hours for all the steps needed.