Kootenay Hunter
AH senior member
I had a disastrous day at the range...
No, nothing blew up, the guns performed how they should, the loads I was testing worked more or less where predicted. About the only practical thing that happened poorly, is that I need to get a different front sight blade that is 1mm higher, as I was out testing a rifle that I just finished.
But you see, for the first time in a long time, not a soul commented on my rifles, and I had made both stocks myself! I tell ya it is a blow to a mans ego when nobody notices the fine wood work he produces!
The rifle in the back ground is a custom IBI HMB action with a 26" fluted pipe, in 223. The stock is a chunk of claro walnut I picked up for a song at a gun show last November, with katalox wood for the pommel cap and for end. An old guy had bought the blank in the 80's and had never made it into anything (apparently it had just been drying in the attic since then). I was able to get me a micro chassis from the inside of an MDT timber core, so I machined that into the stock, and then carved out the rest with rasps. I built an F class style stock for it (hence the chunkiness) as I wanted a 223 practice trainer for practicing precision shooting.
The rifle in the foreground is a 1926 Oberdorf Mauser, that I had re-barreled with a 26" Heym barrel in 9.3x62, and put into turkish walnut. I had the smith who did the metal work (https://jakobstrasserltd.com/) inlet the stock, which I then refined, added on the ebony, and did the finishing on. I have to be honest, the inletting is the real chore when making stocks and he did a fabulous job. In the background you can see @BC Tal and his 30-06 Mauser Oberndorf.
SO! Show me some pictures rifles where you have made the stock, and tell me about them. I am curious to see what other back yard wood workers have done!
No, nothing blew up, the guns performed how they should, the loads I was testing worked more or less where predicted. About the only practical thing that happened poorly, is that I need to get a different front sight blade that is 1mm higher, as I was out testing a rifle that I just finished.
But you see, for the first time in a long time, not a soul commented on my rifles, and I had made both stocks myself! I tell ya it is a blow to a mans ego when nobody notices the fine wood work he produces!
The rifle in the back ground is a custom IBI HMB action with a 26" fluted pipe, in 223. The stock is a chunk of claro walnut I picked up for a song at a gun show last November, with katalox wood for the pommel cap and for end. An old guy had bought the blank in the 80's and had never made it into anything (apparently it had just been drying in the attic since then). I was able to get me a micro chassis from the inside of an MDT timber core, so I machined that into the stock, and then carved out the rest with rasps. I built an F class style stock for it (hence the chunkiness) as I wanted a 223 practice trainer for practicing precision shooting.
The rifle in the foreground is a 1926 Oberdorf Mauser, that I had re-barreled with a 26" Heym barrel in 9.3x62, and put into turkish walnut. I had the smith who did the metal work (https://jakobstrasserltd.com/) inlet the stock, which I then refined, added on the ebony, and did the finishing on. I have to be honest, the inletting is the real chore when making stocks and he did a fabulous job. In the background you can see @BC Tal and his 30-06 Mauser Oberndorf.
SO! Show me some pictures rifles where you have made the stock, and tell me about them. I am curious to see what other back yard wood workers have done!
