Some nice boom sticks NS!! Have you had a chance to use them?? Or any plans on a dangerous game hunt?
I have a few, a couple I hope to still use some day.
These are a pair of pre 64 .375’s, the top being a 375/338, my grandad built the works and managed to take it to Africa and use it on a Cape buffalo. I just received this rifle back after a 25 year hiatus, I’ll be packing it this fall for all my low land hunting.
The bottom rifle is my grandmothers .375 h&h. The year before we lost the grizzly hunt, I planned to use it for bear. Being the stock was fit for my grandmother, I built a stock to fit me. Unfortunately I haven’t gotten to use it on a grizzly, yet, only moose…. But I keep buying tickets for yukon grizzly hunts, so I have hopes!
A few years after grandads Africa trip, he was booked again. He built this .458wm off of a GEW 98, a blank of walnut and a blank barrel, other then the action this one is literally from scratch.
Unfortunately the airline lost this rifle when he went the second time, so he used his partners freshly built .458 instead for his second buffalo.
I have a savings account running, so I can take this .458wm to Africa for what it was intended for. In the meantime, I’ll replace that model 70 steel plate for a more forgiving recoil pad. I fired this rifle twice back around year ‘2000 (with grandads hand loads), nearly ko’d me each shot. After nearly 25 years, I just bought die’s and brass for it yesterday, and have a few recoil pads on the way to try out. Leaning towards a brown old English pad with a black line.
That .458, grandad built 2 identical stocks, one in rosewood and one in walnut. I recently picked up a Brazilian 98 and have it fitted to the spare walnut stock, I need a bigger bore build to fill that barrel channel, that was cut for a .458 size barrel. Leaning towards an open sighted 35 whelen or 9.3x62, or going further and doing a .416 Taylor, to match up with my other big bores.
