Frankenrifles...
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Here is my contribution. 30-06 RCBS improved using a old pre 1940 win model 70 barrel on a 1960 Savage 110 with a late 70s savage beech stock. Nice shooter too.
beautiful rifle!
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- Steel Town
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- Southern Vancouver Island
Here is mine. It started life as a BOSS equipped 30-06 and a take off 338 Win Mag barrel. Jan Kolenbrander fit the barrel, modified the rails and feed ramp, worked over the trigger, opened the bolt face, and fit a Williams extractor. I added "MOA" winchester magazine spring and follower, fit the stock and added after market bottom metal. It will get a synthetic stock likely to go unpainted. It shoots well and functions perfectly.
hifiwasabi
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Where from did you get such a lovely stock and scope base for the second of your two Enfields? I'd very much like to modernize mine to look similar, but still in 303.
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- Southern Vancouver Island
I got the stock for the .32-40 Enfield from a fellow CGN'er. It's a Bishop stock from the 60's-70's. Bought the guy's Enfield just to get the stocks. The scope mount is a Weaver TO-1 with low Weaver tip-off rings.
hifiwasabi
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I like that a lot, just have to make friends with a competent gunsmith now
That is exactly what this thread is about! Let's see them.
Somewhere around here I have a picture of a Turkish Mauser, with a SAKO barrel rechambered to 240 Page Sooper-Pooper, and inletted into a repaired Model 70 stock.
Ted
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- Lumby Town!!
Somewhere around here I have a picture of a Turkish Mauser, with a SAKO barrel rechambered to 240 Page Sooper-Pooper, and inletted into a repaired Model 70 stock.
OK, buddy, this one I want to see!!!!!
OK, buddy, this one I want to see!!!!!
The top is the (303) Norma aka: .311-308 norma mag
The lower one is just a P-14 .303 brit. I bedded it into that stock, am planning on putting a picatinny rail and putting it on the EE to pay for the other .303 I bought, which kinda fits this thread as well:
Possibly less Franken than others, but the best I've got to offer right now....
The action is a wartime K98 Mauser, at some point in it's life it became a heavy barrelled match rifle of some sort in .308 Win. I'm told the crown was damaged, so they lopped a couple inches off and put a nice recessed crown on the end, which is the point where my uncle's buddy acquired the barrelled action and stuffed it in the back of his gun cabinet for a few years. The stock and mystery scope mounts were part of a sporterized Mauser a cousin owned, presumably Spanish since it was chambered in 7x57. It developed a bad head spacing issue, cases were splitting wide open, and the action was ruined in an attempt to remove the old military barrel. around this time, the uncle spotted buddy's barrelled action in the safe, wheels started turning, and it all wound up in my hands for the paltry sum of $260. He fitted the action to the stock (an old Fajen), removing a ton of material for the heavy contour barrel (now just a little over 20" long), glass bedded the action, installed the bolt and trigger from the wrecked rifle (lucked out on head spacing) and mounted the old 4x Tasco from it as well. I shot a pile of deer with the rifle before upgrading to a Bushnell Elite 3-9x40, and it struck down another buck last fall after some shenanigans occurred to the other gun. It's quite accurate, I've never really pissed around with any match ammo or bullets, but it put 10 rounds of Federal blue box into 2.5" at 200 yards last year. Which kind of #%^*ed me off, my reloads weren't grouping that tight.....
The action is a wartime K98 Mauser, at some point in it's life it became a heavy barrelled match rifle of some sort in .308 Win. I'm told the crown was damaged, so they lopped a couple inches off and put a nice recessed crown on the end, which is the point where my uncle's buddy acquired the barrelled action and stuffed it in the back of his gun cabinet for a few years. The stock and mystery scope mounts were part of a sporterized Mauser a cousin owned, presumably Spanish since it was chambered in 7x57. It developed a bad head spacing issue, cases were splitting wide open, and the action was ruined in an attempt to remove the old military barrel. around this time, the uncle spotted buddy's barrelled action in the safe, wheels started turning, and it all wound up in my hands for the paltry sum of $260. He fitted the action to the stock (an old Fajen), removing a ton of material for the heavy contour barrel (now just a little over 20" long), glass bedded the action, installed the bolt and trigger from the wrecked rifle (lucked out on head spacing) and mounted the old 4x Tasco from it as well. I shot a pile of deer with the rifle before upgrading to a Bushnell Elite 3-9x40, and it struck down another buck last fall after some shenanigans occurred to the other gun. It's quite accurate, I've never really pissed around with any match ammo or bullets, but it put 10 rounds of Federal blue box into 2.5" at 200 yards last year. Which kind of #%^*ed me off, my reloads weren't grouping that tight.....
This is mine. A M70 in 3o/o6 Springfield. Other than the Shilen barrel and S&K rings, all the parts were used and or scrounged off of various EEs. A good friend actually christened it 'Frankenstien' the first time he saw it.
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what is the distinction between a "custom" or semi-custom assembled from various new and/or recycled/reworked/refinished/inletted parts and a "frankenrifle"?
A Frankenrifle is made up of miscellaneous parts from different makes of previously completed factory rifles, rather than fitted with aftermarket parts. Take-off barrels, stocks, recoil pads, etc, are fitted together to make the completed rifle.
I recently saw a Husqvarna rifle that had a Ruger recoil pad fitted to it. Hardly a Franken, but you get the idea.
Ted
I recently saw a Husqvarna rifle that had a Ruger recoil pad fitted to it. Hardly a Franken, but you get the idea.
Ted
Not exactly a Frankenrifle this is a heavily worked over 98 Mauser re-chambered to 8mm / 06.
The work that went into this is awesome, aside from the outrageous stock, the metalwork has a beautiful rich blue and virtually all lettering and numbers are polished off.
Wood to metal fit is nothing short of perfect and the rifle is very comfortable to shoot despite the shaping of the stock.
I would dearly like to know who did all the work on this piece as the seller, fellow CGNer and dear friend ( H4831 ) knew very little about it.
So if anyone out there knows of the builder please chip in...
