The twins are finally finished!!!!!!
They have some things in common that I’ll describe first
- the stocks are Black Walnut from the Arrow Lakes area of the Kootenays. Apparently the tree was felled just prior to the flooding and submerged for a number of years. It was salvaged in the 80’s and milled. I bought the semi-inletted blanks from Don Robinson (Kelowna) at the Kamloops Gun Show last March. The wood is quite heavy–about the same weight as an equivalent laminate.
- steel grip caps from Dressels of Washington state
- ebony fore-end tips
- glass bedded and with internal cross-bolts behind the recoil lugs and behind the magazine boxes
- all metal was slow rust blued
- 1” Pachmayr Old English Decelerator recoil pads
- 2-position M70 style safeties
The first rifle is a 9.3X62 Mauser built on an Oberndorf Brazilian 1908 Mauser action and a 24” Bevan King barrel (1-12 twist). The barrel was profiled to approximate the Douglas #2 profile (.600” muzzle diameter). It has a Dayton-Traister trigger. The scope is a Leupold VariX-II 3-9X40 with 2 piece Leupold bases and Leupold rings. It weighs 9.5lbs all up.
I fired the rifle for the first time last week but problems with the Warne bases cut things short(the front base holes were off-center). With the new rings/bases I fired the first group this morning, which measured 0.60”. I’m using RL15, 270 gr Speer semi-spitzers, Norma brass and CCI200 primers.
Velocities were
- 57 gr, 2396fps
- 58 gr, 2433fps
- 59 gr, 2504fps
No adverse pressure signs.
Corlane Sporting Goods (Rocky Mountain Rifles) in Dawson Creek, BC did all of the metal work(d&t, profile barrel, chamber/thread/crown/install barrel, lap lugs, square receiver) and I am very happy with their work.
All metal and wood finishing was done in-house.
The second rifle is a .35 Whelen built on an early 50’s FN Mauser with a 23” #2 profile Douglas Premium barrel (1-12 twist). This one has a Timney trigger. The scope is a Leupold VarX-II 2-7X33 with one-piece Leupold base and Leupold rings. It weighs 8.5 lbs all up.
I’ve had this rifle since about 1998. This is it’s fourth stock!!
Both rifles
They have some things in common that I’ll describe first
- the stocks are Black Walnut from the Arrow Lakes area of the Kootenays. Apparently the tree was felled just prior to the flooding and submerged for a number of years. It was salvaged in the 80’s and milled. I bought the semi-inletted blanks from Don Robinson (Kelowna) at the Kamloops Gun Show last March. The wood is quite heavy–about the same weight as an equivalent laminate.
- steel grip caps from Dressels of Washington state
- ebony fore-end tips
- glass bedded and with internal cross-bolts behind the recoil lugs and behind the magazine boxes
- all metal was slow rust blued
- 1” Pachmayr Old English Decelerator recoil pads
- 2-position M70 style safeties
The first rifle is a 9.3X62 Mauser built on an Oberndorf Brazilian 1908 Mauser action and a 24” Bevan King barrel (1-12 twist). The barrel was profiled to approximate the Douglas #2 profile (.600” muzzle diameter). It has a Dayton-Traister trigger. The scope is a Leupold VariX-II 3-9X40 with 2 piece Leupold bases and Leupold rings. It weighs 9.5lbs all up.
I fired the rifle for the first time last week but problems with the Warne bases cut things short(the front base holes were off-center). With the new rings/bases I fired the first group this morning, which measured 0.60”. I’m using RL15, 270 gr Speer semi-spitzers, Norma brass and CCI200 primers.
Velocities were
- 57 gr, 2396fps
- 58 gr, 2433fps
- 59 gr, 2504fps
No adverse pressure signs.
Corlane Sporting Goods (Rocky Mountain Rifles) in Dawson Creek, BC did all of the metal work(d&t, profile barrel, chamber/thread/crown/install barrel, lap lugs, square receiver) and I am very happy with their work.
All metal and wood finishing was done in-house.
The second rifle is a .35 Whelen built on an early 50’s FN Mauser with a 23” #2 profile Douglas Premium barrel (1-12 twist). This one has a Timney trigger. The scope is a Leupold VarX-II 2-7X33 with one-piece Leupold base and Leupold rings. It weighs 8.5 lbs all up.
I’ve had this rifle since about 1998. This is it’s fourth stock!!
Both rifles
