Almost Finished a 9.3x62

[AZDAVE]

Have been working on a custom 9.3x62 off and on for a while, honey-doo projects and a new trophy room kept pushing it to the back burner. I had a old FN mauser in 30/06 with a shot out barrel. so I sent the action to Roger Ferrell from the gunmakers guild and he did the barrel work and rust bluing. (24 in tapered octagon barrel ) I did the stock work. Had a old english walnut blank that didn't look like much but boy did I get a surprise when I started cutting into it. Was very pleased with the fiddle back and nice grain pattern that came out. All that is left is to checker the stock.

 

[Sako AV]

Looks great!

 

[Bullthrower338]

Very nice Dave!

 

[JPbowhunter]

Where's the open sights!

Looks great mate.

 

[CAustin]

Looks great Dave! I am impressed with the stock you made.

 

[CoElkHunter]

VERY nice! The wood is absolutely fantastic!

 

[BeeMaa]

I saw the grain on that wood and said "holy s*%$" out loud.
Like waves hitting the beach...pretty cool.

 

[sestoppelman]

Very nice! Don't forget the sights! Classic rifle gotsta have sights.

 

[Dr Ray]

Very very nice

 

[Areaonereal]

Those mineral lines and the fiddleback truly set that apart from many XXX stocks, I really like any stock with fiddleback. Very nice eye candy.

 

[Shootist43]

Looking mighty fine my friend. Have you taken it to the range yet? What are you planning on hunting with it?

 

[WAB]

Awesome! How does it shoot?

 

[AZDAVE]

Thank you all for the kind comments, I haven't had the opportunity to get it to the range yet as I just finished the stock yesterday. I plan on hunting mouse to moose in NA. Driven boar in europe, and dik-dik to Eland in africa. Now I just need to save the $$$ to pull off the hunts. As funny as it sounds for a guy that loves to shoot Iron sights I gave allot of thought to having or not having them on this rifle. I really liked the clean look of the tapered octagon and chose to not add them to this build. I might chang my mind in the future after shooting it as the irons would be easy to add.

 

[Milan]

I was just about to ask you about the iron sights. Though I rarely use them these days, I still like to have them on all my hunting rifles. So I think you should put them on.
Beautiful rifle!

 

[sestoppelman]

Thank you all for the kind comments, I haven't had the opportunity to get it to the range yet as I just finished the stock yesterday. I plan on hunting mouse to moose in NA. Driven boar in europe, and dik-dik to Eland in africa. Now I just need to save the $$$ to pull off the hunts. As funny as it sounds for a guy that loves to shoot Iron sights I gave allot of thought to having or not having them on this rifle. I really liked the clean look of the tapered octagon and chose to not add them to this build. I might chang my mind in the future after shooting it as the irons would be easy to add.

You mean the bald headed look? LOL. Like an AR15 without a flash suppressor, bald!

 

[Von Gruff]

Always nice to see something come out of a piece of wood that you had not expected and some serious "nice" has has come to the surface on that one.

 

[Fastrig]

What a beauty!!! Well done!!!