Another 9.3X62

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Mauser98

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I'm leaving Sunday for my annual moose/elk hunt in Northern BC. This year, as in many other years, I'll be taking a new rifle.

This one is a 9.3X62 Mauser built on a JC Higgins(FN Mauser) action with a 21' Heym barrel. Other than lapping the locking lugs/seats and tapering the rear tang, nothing has been done to the action. The safety is factory and I'm using a Timney trigger. The rings and mounts are Talley holding a Leupold 2-7X33. Total weight scoped is 8lbs 6 oz which is just about right for a rifle in this caliber. All the metal was finished with a slow rust blue.

The stock is unique in that it a English Walnut laminate. Our local gunsmith gave it to me because I'm such a nice guy:). It was configured as a target stock with a huge beaver-tail forend, roll-over cheekpiece and a very generous grip. It's total weigh was well over four pounds. After inletting and bedding, a few minutes with a bandsaw on the forend and roll-over and a few hours with a rasp reduced the weight considerably.

The forend tip, grip cap are ebony as is the trim around the bolt stop. The recoil pad is a 1" Pachmayr Decellerator and the swivel band and stud are from Gentry.

All in all, I'm pretty happy with how this rifle turned out. But I can't help but wonder what I'll be packing next year.:D

I almost forgot. It's a good shooter.

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She's a sweet lookin' piece!!
What load are you using?
I am going with 250 AB's, RL-15 powder,
but not sure of charge yet. Still have some
'testin' to do!
 
after you're done with her after this season, keep me in mind for next year. I think she looks super nice and wouldn't mind takin her off your hands for ya. Gun Safes only have SOOOO much room you know!!!!!!!!!!
 
SuperCub said:
I like it. :)

Nicely proportioned with the short forend to accommodate the short bbl.




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I had a heck of a time with the forend's length. A generally accepted rule of thumb is for the forend to be 1" less than 1/2 the barrel length. If I had done that, the swivel ring would have been too close to the tip and the forend would look clubish.

So I used 'Golden Ratio' (learn more here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_ratio)

Numerically, the Golden Ratio equals about 1.6180339887.

So I divide the barrel length by the Golden Ratio then subtract the barrel length to get the forend length.

It works for me.:)
 
LeRoy said:
She's a sweet lookin' piece!!
What load are you using?
I am going with 250 AB's, RL-15 powder,
but not sure of charge yet. Still have some
'testin' to do!
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The lightest bullet I've loaded in either of my x62's has been the 270 gr Speer. With a max load of 61 gr of RL15 velocity was around 2550 fps out of a 24" barrel. As with all max loads, start low and work up.
 
Why not? said:
Lovely rifle. You do very nice work! :cool:

Any chance we could see a picture of the swivel band?

Thanks,
Ted
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No problem, Ted

Gentry Band. It's machined with a double contour that tapers nicely into the barrel. There were no machine marks and the bluing was ok. I stripped and blued it so the color would match the barrel.

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As a comparison, here's a picture of the Talley band on my other X62. This band comes in the white and showed a lot of machine marks so I had to do quite a bit of filing/sanding. Also, it's not tapered lke the Gentry but I still like it's look. It's cost is about 1/2 of that of the Gentry.

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And just for the heck of it, here's a close-up of the ebony detail under the bolt-stop.

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Very nicely done, very tasteful and practical.
Is the stock from any pattern or "freehand". I really appreciate the lines and balanced look of the stock.
Pat
 
Pat Brennan said:
Very nicely done, very tasteful and practical.
Is the stock from any pattern or "freehand". I really appreciate the lines and balanced look of the stock.
Pat
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The stock as acquired was a very crude semi-inlet. It had been shaped as a target stock and inletted for the action and barrel(the barrel channel was a 1/2" groove). There was no inletting for the trigger guard.

So realistically, I had to put as much work into it as I would when starting with a rough blank.
 
Noel said:
Very nice Paul!
Are you going to checker the grip?
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Hi Noel

Funny you should ask. There's a guy at ou our Club that keeps nagging me about getting checkering done on this and other rifles I have. Apparently there are guys out there who do custom work but I haven't looked into it. Maybe I should learn how:)

I'm also thinking about some iron rights of some sort. I kind of like the offerings from NECG.
 
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