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07-06-2016, 12:53 PM
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A Stalking Rifle
I have been on a rifle binge the last year or so putting together a Pre64 M70 collection and along the way came up with a Mauser action that just begged to be put to good use. The result is my version of a 1930's era stalking rifle with some cosmetic enhancements of course. I did stay true to the era and the caliber is marked as .275 Rigby. This is of course the same as a 7MM Mauser or 7X57 but Rigby needed a proprietary chambering for their rifles.
The stock of English walnut came from Cecil Fredi, the trigger is a Timmeny bottom metal is Sunny Hill and engraved by our own JJ Roberts. The quarter rib was custom built by the smith who did the work, Neidner checkered but plate and sights came from New England custom Gun.
I put 20 rounds through it over the weekend to break in the barrel and now load development will begin. All just in time for mule Deer and Antelope in Wyoming in October.
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There is no hunting like the hunting of man, and those who have hunted armed men long enough and liked it, never care for anything else thereafter...Earnest Hemingway
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07-06-2016, 01:04 PM
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Here are some more pics. The QD rings are Wisner. The gun as pictured weighs just over 8lbs and feels more like 6.
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