Here's my current and most Frankenstein rifle. M78 Sportsman action which was Rem's cheap M700 rifle before the SPS series. BBl is stainless factory SPS. Stock is a Brown Precision that came off a 358Norma that I owned and sold to a friend. He sold the stock back to me. Scope is a current FXII 4x. Weight as shown is 7lb. I was going to refinish the stock but found some yellow paint under the top coat black and decided to leave it as-is. Kind of a rat gun theme ala rat rod. It's actually a nice little pkg as shown.
Thanks ..... I rather like that rifle as well.
Thanks ..... I rather like that rifle as well.
It is currently at the blacksmith getting a new SS Lilja bbl in 35Whelen, but no bodywork will be done to the stock other than a 1/2" extension to bring the LOP up to 13.5". I picked up a beater/gloss Vari-X III 2.5-8 in the States for $140US. I will put that into good olde weaver rings and bases for the added ugly effect. The fellow doing the bbl has a bit (lot) of OCD so I know it's killing him to see that go out the door in ugly mode.
All things worked together for good.
The butchered barrel is now two inches shorter. Parted the chamber end off, enough to remove all the tenon threads and most of the extra special chambering job that had been done.
New chamber took care of all the extras in there. Turned down the barrel over the chamber reinforce just barely enough to get rid of the caliber stamping garbage. Cold blue made it all presentable.
Now a handy outfit, and still launches 180s well over 3000 fps! Amazing what a skilled smith can do with such stuff.
Ted
