It’s a piece of walnut grown in Marlborough. Apparently from a tree planted by the first European settlers of the area. Go ahead and do it, you only live once right?Quote:
Originally Posted by rockland
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It’s a piece of walnut grown in Marlborough. Apparently from a tree planted by the first European settlers of the area. Go ahead and do it, you only live once right?Quote:
Originally Posted by rockland
All the walnut I have on hand here in Akaroa similarly comes from trees planted by the original settlers circa 1850Quote:
Originally Posted by Hunter_Nick
Most of those original trees just start dying of old age at around 150 years old
I have another big walnut to take down this summer to refresh my walnut supply for use in another 5 years time
Gee those top two rifles are really smart, as nice as any rifles that have ever been shown on the forumQuote:
Originally Posted by rambo-6mmrem
Superb craftsmanship, a rifle of with depth and true character and in 358 no less. Magnificent!
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9.3 Mauser
A Husqvarna 1640 in 9.3x62 in a custom stock. Ebony foreend and gripcap. Checkered by myself. It will shoot 286 grain bullets at 2400fps into an inch. It is light for a big gun, only barely 8 pounds including the scope. It will hit you shooting of the bench, but offhand she is easily wrangled.
I can still see the front sight well enough to shoot her with open sights, so the scope may not stay for some missions
Had a Sako 85 Bavarian but sold it for a Sauer 404.
Picture without scope when i had it up for sale.
Just had the wood cleaned up on my Webley Scott and Sons Hammerless hammer shotgun. Pleased with the result!!
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That's stunning @Southcity! You've got some nice bits of blued steel and walnut there from the pictures you've posted over the years.
NiceeeeQuote:
Originally Posted by Southcity
Thanks. Sucker for traditional wood and blue. Have some practical rifles as well but the look and feel of blued steel and walnut is hard to beat.Quote:
Originally Posted by Steelisreal
Very very nice @Southcity , stunning bit of kit and very nice finish on that wood whoever did it
Come on guys it's been 4 months and no Walnut and Blued Steel " ?
Just finished repairs on this
Field's patent falling block 450 no1 Express
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Easily one of the nicest pieces of heavy dark walnut among my collection
Hang on!! Not a lot of blue and that’s Manuka😂Quote:
Originally Posted by akaroa1
Yeh FIELD'S actions all lose their case colours pretty well
I will ask the moderators to remove that post.
The 500 Express I finished repairs on and test fired will have to wait to be shown now, until this non walnut and Blued Steel is removed
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Very nice bit of kit , you can’t beat that old walnut with some patina , nice rifleQuote:
Originally Posted by akaroa1
Handsome French big game rifled musket
70 caliber,"Sellior Paris" on the barrel. In overall grand condition,rich case hardening present on most parts.Fine carved floral motive on the cherkpeice,sadly missing its rear sight.Butt trap fits a couple of Gauloise and a matchbook or a small piece of briē and a couple of tiny cracker biscuits.
NiceQuote:
Originally Posted by norsk
Glue a sight on and fire it
Looking forward to the range report.
Take a bore mould and get a Tanner mould asap
Yesterday evening Mr Vulcan visited to see the first shots of a just finished project.
Partly to see this beauty and partly for safety if it blew up and I needed first aid.
A unique 500 Express single shot rifle. Scottish circa 1875.
I only brought it home a few days ago and I really thrashed it on the Bush fix to fit a new hammer and get it shootable again.
Lots of little faults to deal with.
It was easily the best first range session I have ever had with a Big Bore vintage rifle.
But due to the lack of regular Walnut and Blued Steel posts I will hold it back for a few months and let someone else step up and share their new beauties
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Here's mine. Top to bottom.
Mauser 98 7x57
Heym sr20 6.5x55
Brno ZKK 600 7x64
Savage 99 250 savage
@Longrun - if we asked nicely, would it be possible to have some more pictures of the M98 in 7*57 please? It looks like it might be a special one?
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It's a nice rifle. Don't know who put it together. I bought it off @Missalot on here.
Most likely a Kevin Gaskell rifle
New lease of life for my old 788. Definitely lots learned checkering for the first time, and it’s far from perfect, but it’s mine and I will take great joy in carrying and shooting it!
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@Longrun … now I have my new flash shiny carbon fibre job I find myself missing the old wood blue! Hope it’s going well ����Quote:
Originally Posted by Longrun
Haha yes going well thanks.Quote:
Originally Posted by Missalot
Picked up this very average condition Sako Forester 243 on the weekend. Pretty tired after a life on a Stewart Island fishing boat. Gave it a bit of a spruce up and threw on the Leupold M8 & rings. Has a weird ring attachment. Will probably end up in the NZDA Heritage Trust museum but will see if she still shoots. Has bedding issues and the end of the barrel has some pitting.
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Had to do a safe reorganise the other day. Had time for another walnut/blue pic. A nice M1917 I bought off Dad before he sold it out of the family...
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Finally back together and ready for some load development Saturday morning. Zastava action with 1-7.5t 6mm rem barrel. Stock work done by the late Howard Lopdell. One beautiful peice of walnut
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Picked this up this last month, Blaser k95 in 243
Was bought off a real gentleman who has had some bad luck with his health, as the story goes he ordered a quite standard k95, he was known to the blaser dealer who took it upon himself to upgrade him into grade 7 wood. Also has a cool system of ammo storage in stock. The high grade wood did make it hard for him to get it on the hills. I've decided to use it after some load development and I've also got a new 308 barrel to go with it
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Very nice @BOPR93 , first glance I went shit that’s nice wood , I had to spend a lot of $ to get grade 7 , and then I read it , very similar stock to my one actually , did it come with 2 barrels or did you but the 308 ?
Certainly a beautiful rifle that I’d love to own, wicked piece of walnut too. Just a shame that (considering the price) the checkering is machine cut….Quote:
Originally Posted by BOPR93
Get out there and give it some ‘character’!
Nah didn't come with the 308Quote:
Originally Posted by Lucky
Had to bite and bullet and fork out for new (3.5k) which was a bit of a shock, but I'll be keeping it and handing it down.
I was quoted over $4k for a barrel, who did you order it with ?
Price for barrels went up early this year. I snuck in just before the price increase.
What did you get?Quote:
Originally Posted by stug
.222, closest I could get to a .223 for the K95. Fingers crossed it is a 1:12 twist. Hoping to use 60-63gr projectiles. The rimmed .224 cartridges are too much of a hassle to get components in NZ.
have shot .222 for over 50 years dropped big stags pigs great caliber still have the .222 remington from the day I started culling for NZFS will not part with it
