Classic Rifle

Wood

Win/64 said:
What is that stock made of? Is that what they called wood?
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Yes, at one time rifle stocks were actually made of wood! Stranger still, shooters liked them and preferred walnut, with the best of all being walnut with a pattern. Gee, we must have had some queer ideas!
 
Rembo said:
that's a BSA CF-2...looks very 60's-ish....and Roy Weatherby would have been very proud to have BSA emulate his stocks like that.....
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I'll bet ya stocks have been made like that long before "Roy Weatherby" came along.
 
here's another "classic" BSA.....a Regent in 222.......

the owner's manual says it was built in '56

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Nice rifle Rick, I've always liked the triple deuce as well. I wish I had pics of my Imperial feather weight, but I didn't take any before I took it apart to refinish the stock. When I'm done the oil finish should look great. Come to think of it, I believe I bought that rifle from you.:wave:
 
bronco_mudder said:
I wish I had pics of my Imperial feather weight, but I didn't take any before I took it apart to refinish the stock. When I'm done the oil finish should look great. Come to think of it, I believe I bought that rifle from you.:wave:
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yup...you did buy that one from me....
 
The comment about "stocks like that were around before Roy W." may have some merit as some custom gun makers and stock makers may have used them but make no mistake, Roy Weatherby is responsible for that "California Look" he was making rifles with that look in the early 1940s, probably alot earlier, but it was 1944 when he started selling them and his line of Magnum cartridges. As the photo shows, everyone copied him.
 
gitrdun said:
NIce rig Boo, now do it a favour and loose those rings. :)
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I broke 2 sets of PH aluminum rings after that rifle was re-barreled to 338-06. At 7 pounds scoped it is a true lightweight and the recoil does catch your attention. :rolleyes: After the second set broke I had my gunsmith drill the top of the bridge flats and install a set of steel Weaver Bases. The scope is now set into the Weaver rings using a thin layer of dried contact cement as a friction enhancer.

After 3 years and close to 500 rounds the scope is yet to move. In this case form follows function and I will just leave the Weavers in place. LoL
 
Mauser98 said:
Nice looking wood and the white spacers, roll-over cheekpiece and bowling pin finish would make Roy Weatherby proud.
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And then some :puke:

Ironically that "American Style" stock was not something you had to have on a BSA CF2, you could have had a nice plain walnut stock, with no cap, no spacers etc, which is what I had, and it was much more elegant looking. Granted the checkering was total Brit crap, but that aside, it was a nice piece of wood.
 
ben hunchak said:
The comment about "stocks like that were around before Roy W." may have some merit as some custom gun makers and stock makers may have used them but make no mistake, Roy Weatherby is responsible for that "California Look" he was making rifles with that look in the early 1940s, probably alot earlier, but it was 1944 when he started selling them and his line of Magnum cartridges. As the photo shows, everyone copied him.
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+1 This is what is often reffered to as the "California School" of stock design.
Sile was a major manufacturer of this type of stock, and made them for Anschutz, BSA, Weatherby, Voere, Parker Hale, just to name a few.

Some of the C.I.L. 950C'c and many of their Anschutz OEM rifles had Sile stocks on them.
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