Nature Boy
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What cartridges DM? Good freezer filler!
What cartridges DM?
16/16 over 8x57...
Remington 700? What’s it chambered in?
Georgeous stock!!!This is my 240 Weatherby Magnum, which I originally built in 2009 but reworked a couple of years ago. It's a 1917 ERFURT Mauser 98 with a 26" ER Shaw barrel (glass-bedded) and a nice figured piece of walnut. I went with a maple tip and cap just to be different. It has a Timney deluxe trigger and a Rams horn buttplate you can't really see in the picture below due to the grass. It also has replacement bottom metal with a hinged floor-plate. Currently it has a Leupold scope mounted (I hate the elevation turret without a cap!). The bolt is also jeweled. It's one of my nicest presenting rifles I own. So far, I've only shot a bobcat with it but plan on doing some more deer hunting with it in the future.
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Georgeous stock!!!
Thank you. My cousin did the stock work. He inletted, hand-checkered, glass-bedded, sanded and oil-finished the stock. He also installed the tip and cap.
Hope your cousin free-floated the barrel in the forend. A stock with all that figure may warp with the weather...changing POI considerably.
I'm not too worried about that. I'm not planning on taking it out in crappy weather. I have other rifles I use when weather is a factor.
FYI: Wood tends to warp as it dries, whether left out in the rain or not. Yours may or may not visably warp if the wood was well-seasoned, but it doesn't take much warpage to affect POI or grouping ability.
And I'd still take a wood-stock over plastic/synthetic any day... I've hunted with wood stocked rifles for many decades and never had any issues! God bless!
For deer in Ohio, we are limited to straight walled 35 cal and up so here are my two:
Marlin 1895 in 45/70
Winchester 1907 in 351 WSL