huntingfish
CGN frequent flyer
- Location
- Quebec City
This year during moose hunting season, I miss what should of VERY easy shot. I was sitting in my stand, a rather old and noisy stand, and I heard a moose walking in the trail that leads to the back of my stand like it's nobody's business. He was not making any attempts at hiding himself, which is rather strange. As he approached, I ackwardly turned around (the bench is fixed so you look in the front of the stand while sitting down), shouldered the rifle (front of rifle was sitting on the window's bottom, however the butt of the rifle was not in my shoulder, but rather mid-bicep,...so if you can imagine it, I was holding the rifle at a 40'ish degree, not from vertical, but rather from the line my shoulder and hands in front of me would make) and waited. He stopped short of me being able to see him, however his left antler was showing from behind a pine tree. He was just waiting to sniff out if there was any danger before he would cross the trail. While I waited for him to cross, I thought to myself, I should probably turn around completely, however I couldn't since the stand would of made all kinds of cracking noise. I can't possibly miss, the shot was what...50 ft (yes, FEET) or so I thought, so I just thought to myself: aim square to the boiler room and you'll be good.
Wrong.
I missed. Grazed one of the small trees that was a couple of inches below him. A friend and I made fun of a guy at the gunstore when he was saying you really have to have your cheek on the cheekrest in order to see correctly in the scope and not skew where you think you're shooting. Pretty far from a benchrest position lol.
God dang was I dissappointed at myself for that one. SOOOoo, I needed something to boost my moral up. I always wanted to slim down the stock for a while (too bulky), the original trigger had been bugging me and might as well install a better recoil pad. Oh, and I had some african exotic woods lying around...so I installed an african blackwood foreend tip and I turned myself a bolt knob made of bloodwood (thought it was fitting for a hunting rifle!).
One thing I hadn't planned on though, was that when I was stripping the old finish, it melted away the old bedding job. Seems strange the stripper would be able to do that, but meh...
You can see the whole process on the album's link at the end of this post, but here are a couple of highlights:
Original:
Removed the old recoil pad and tip, also started to slim down the stock:
Installed tip and shaped:
Stripped and sanded to 120
Bloodwood bolt kno
Bedding prepping:
Bedding!
Bedding is done (WHAT A RELIEF!!):
Applying sealer (birchwood casey's):
DONE! All 3 coats of tru-oil:
For all the pics:
https://picasaweb.google.com/101796758076780687627/MauserStock?authkey=Gv1sRgCI2-1_2Tg-6UUw#
Man was this a LOT of work. There are plenty of small little mistakes everywhere, but I made sure to take pictures that don't show any of them lol.
Still have to see how it shoots. Made it my priority to get a lot of range time this year! For obvious reasons ;-)
Hope you all have enjoyed the pics.
Fish
Wrong.
I missed. Grazed one of the small trees that was a couple of inches below him. A friend and I made fun of a guy at the gunstore when he was saying you really have to have your cheek on the cheekrest in order to see correctly in the scope and not skew where you think you're shooting. Pretty far from a benchrest position lol.
God dang was I dissappointed at myself for that one. SOOOoo, I needed something to boost my moral up. I always wanted to slim down the stock for a while (too bulky), the original trigger had been bugging me and might as well install a better recoil pad. Oh, and I had some african exotic woods lying around...so I installed an african blackwood foreend tip and I turned myself a bolt knob made of bloodwood (thought it was fitting for a hunting rifle!).
One thing I hadn't planned on though, was that when I was stripping the old finish, it melted away the old bedding job. Seems strange the stripper would be able to do that, but meh...
You can see the whole process on the album's link at the end of this post, but here are a couple of highlights:
Original:
Removed the old recoil pad and tip, also started to slim down the stock:
Installed tip and shaped:
Stripped and sanded to 120
Bloodwood bolt kno
Bedding prepping:
Bedding!
Bedding is done (WHAT A RELIEF!!):
Applying sealer (birchwood casey's):
DONE! All 3 coats of tru-oil:
For all the pics:
https://picasaweb.google.com/101796758076780687627/MauserStock?authkey=Gv1sRgCI2-1_2Tg-6UUw#
Man was this a LOT of work. There are plenty of small little mistakes everywhere, but I made sure to take pictures that don't show any of them lol.
Still have to see how it shoots. Made it my priority to get a lot of range time this year! For obvious reasons ;-)
Hope you all have enjoyed the pics.
Fish
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