Looking for a stock for my new custom rifle and need advice!

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Just got off the phone with Jard Inc. They make custom triggers that will fit the Tikka 3 7mm for $132.00 USD and can be set as low as 12oz. Goody, Goody Gumdrops! That's the trigger I will be going with! :eek:)

I apologize for not using all the right lingo in my explanation of how I will customize my new rifle, but I have never done it before so this is all new to me. I have been shooting with a customized rifle for years, but my beloved father had all the work to it, fits me like a glove and better then any off the shelf rifle I have been holding over the past two weeks.
 
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Be sure to have them bed whatever stock you go with... should be a good "do most things" rifle.
 
Thanks for your kind advise hoytcanon, I definitely will, without a doubt!

Spoke with McMillan yesterday, the are back ordered up to 5 months, which sucks, but in the meantime I have my trusty custom 30-06 to rely on and it has never let me down yet! Good things are worth waiting for.

I also have been looking at a lot of scopes, and I gotta admit the Schmidt & Bender have great glass and if I were going to get into competition shooting, which I wont I would probably get one for this rifle. This rifle will be a hunting and fun 500+ yard target shooting rifle, so the Huskemaw will work for me as they really suit my eye.

My secret wish is that the barrel loves the Barnes bullets. Watched the video on ballistic Gel, devastating terminal internal results! :eek:)

Thank you all for your guidance in my rifle project, greatly appreciated! :eek:)
 
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My custom 30-06 is a P17 which was used as a sniper rifle in WWII.

My beloved father had it given to him by his friend that took him hunting when he was a kid because his parents did not hunt, my father shot his first moose with it when he was 14 years old in 1948.

When my father's friend was dying he gave it to my father. My father then had a custom made to measure stock made for it by the famed stock maker Klaus Hiptmayer. The stock is made of Walnut and it has a sterling silver plaque on the butt, with my father's signature engraved on it. The engraving was done by Klaus's wife Heidi, who was renowned in her own right as a world class engraver. She has since passed away and her engraved plaque is a real work of art, very beautiful.

I have killed many deer and moose with it. My father passed away last year in February, he was my best friend and I sure do miss him! What a great guy with exceptional taste my father was!

I am getting the new rifle so I can retire my beloved father's rife, because it means more to me than just about anything on this planet, and I have abused it enough in the bush perusing table fair.
 
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Thanks for the compliment Swifty. Tell me how to upload photos here and I will, I have no idea how to download otherwise I would have. A picture is worth a thousand words as far as I am concerned! :eek:)

To me it's a real work of art, not to forget a killer tack driver! The German's never did appreciate it as much as I do! LMAO
 
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huntingsask said:
Just got off the phone with Jard Inc. They make custom triggers that will fit the Tikka 3 7mm for $132.00 USD and can be set as low as 12oz. Goody, Goody Gumdrops! That's the trigger I will be going with! :eek:)

I apologize for not using all the right lingo in my explanation of how I will customize my new rifle, but I have never done it before so this is all new to me. I have been shooting with a customized rifle for years, but my beloved father had all the work to it, fits me like a glove and better then any off the shelf rifle I have been holding over the past two weeks.
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I thought your 300WSM Browning TI was your beloved hunting rifle.
At least that's what you talked about for nearly 8 months, when you were on the other forum.

Be aware of the recoil key stock on the Tikka's there a numerous reports of them galling and moving on the Internet, as well as one friend just told me of his having his re placed due to getting galled from recoil.
 
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My custom 30-06 is a P17 which was used as a sniper rifle in WWII.

My beloved father had it given to him by his friend that took him hunting when he was a kid because his parents did not hunt, my father shot his first moose with it when he was 14 years old in 1948.

When my father's friend was dying he gave it to my father. My father then had a custom made to measure stock made for it by the famed stock maker Klaus Hiptmayer. The stock is made of Walnut and it has a sterling silver plaque on the butt, with my father's signature engraved on it. The engraving was done by Klaus's wife Heidi, who was renowned in her own right as a world class engraver. She has since passed away and her engraved plaque is a real work of art, very beautiful.

I have killed many deer and moose with it. My father passed away last year in February, he was my best friend and I sure do miss him! What a great guy with exceptional taste my father was!

I am getting the new rifle so I can retire my beloved father's rife, because it means more to me than just about anything on this planet, and I have abused it enough in the bush perusing table fair.
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I hate to break it to you but there is no such thing as a P17 rifle.
M17, M1917 perhaps, but that's a common slip up, call it what it actually is.

Further to the bad news but the M17 wasn't used as a sniper rifle in WW2. It was issued to Home Guard troops in the UK, as wells as early on in the war US rear echelon, artillery men, and mortar men were issued these rifles while stocks of Garands and Carbines could be brought to supply them.

I've got a M17 re barreled in .308Win., that sports a Winchester serial number dating 1917. It's a really good shooter putting groups like this with irons into 348yards.
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And it has a fantastic laminate stock too boot.
 
yep

Rifle 30-06 Model 1917

trick in rebarreling is first getting off the original barrel, thery were torqued on to alignment not all to the same torque spec.

Winchester production were prefered, early ERA receivers had inconsistant heat treating.

Barrels also were threadded with a squared thread, I know that the last time I was in the back room of Milarm they had a few prechambered in 300WM.

and yes primarially used in WW1 with WW2 use confined to 2nd and 3rd line troops, Navy, Airforce, and Home Guard
 
And the one I own killed many enemies, not to mention all the deer and moose! I feel blessed to even own one (with the original barrel), especially after my beloved father had the barrel re-blued and re-stocked by a famous artist which made it super beautiful, unique and PRICLESS as far as I am concerned.

Everything I shoot with it, drops dead in it's tracks!!! :eek:)
 
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ABSOLUTELY INCORRECT LEFTY ####!

Look up: http://thecmp.org/cmp_sales/rifle_sales/m1917-enfield/
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Ummm......
The CMP used a bad piece of nomenclature in that link. The P prefix is Limey nomenclature. The US used M.
Where do they say they were used as ww2 sniper rifles?

It's ok lots of the stories that were told to us in our younger years were either mis told, or mis remembered?
It's all part of growing up. We all get over it in time.

I'm sure the 30'06 M1917 your dad had re stocked is a really nice rifle. It certainly sounds like the stock maker did a fine job.
Can't wait to see some pictures.
 
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And the one I own killed many enemies, not to mention all the deer and moose! I feel blessed to even own one (with the original barrel), especially after my beloved father had is re-blued and re-stocked by a famous artist which made it super beautiful, unique and PRICLESS as far as I am concerned. Everything I shoot with it, drops dead in it's tracks!!! :eek:)
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Unless this rifle saw combat in ww1 where it may have put a few rounds over to some of the Kaisers troops.. In ww2 however it probably shot very few enemy soldiers if any.
Do you know what a rear echelon soldier does, or is? Or what the Home Guard was?
 
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you really want to take a beating about the history of the Model 1917 ?

wander on over to milsurps and you'll get educated

as for the history of old 'warhorses' that is something I know a thing or 2 about, and owning a smallish pile of them helps with research.

post pictures of the military markings, they all tell a story, inspector marks, acceptance marks etc...
 
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