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Ardent said:
Martin finished my 5.6x50 barreled action ten days ago... I'll update when stock making commences, at present barrel is finished at 27", iron sights and quarter rib with Talley cut bases.
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I look forward to the finished project... it will certainly be a sweet little piece.
 
Beautiful! Any preliminary numbers on weight as pictured? Are you going to start a poll to see what leaf pattern and Krylon paint you should use on it? Just kidding. Are the stock and barrel finished as pictured or will you bead blast?
 
Ardent said:
Yessir! And will do Simon, sights are mocked up there with tape, proper NECGs going on now.

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Nice rifle. The 9.5 Mannlicher is a fine old round. If you've read Edison Marshall, he took a 9.5 to Africa which he disliked a great deal, Charles Cottar said it kicked to much and suggested he use his 405 Winchester (hardly known as a light kicker) which he proceded to use on Buffalo, Lion, and Rhino.
 
I've had a good perspective on recoil thanks to Stickhunter's long term loaned .505 Gibbs I have to get back to him, which is a tad light for a .505, and rather refreshing. I've fired a well stoked 235gr from this and it felt like any mountain rifle, nothing noteworthy.

I've lost my scale and will get another soon, but when it shipped it was 5.75lbs before sights and stock paint. Will have increased fractionally, the stock is just Krylon fusion as it will take a beating guiding Grizzlies and need something cheap I can respray at will.
 
Bah, this is fun worth spending on, bespoke work guns are the ultimate guilty pleasure. The 10mm I built for ATC was a money pit too. The trick is to run aircraft and boats for perspective, guns are cheap and don't require maintenance. They can sit and don't consume money to store, don't need servicing or prohibitively expensive insurance. Really if you sell them one day and got your use out of them for the depreciation they cost you nothing. And who doesn't like customising guns? ;) Best way to kill winter I've found.
 
Ardent said:
Bah, this is fun worth spending on, bespoke work guns are the ultimate guilty pleasure. The 10mm I built for ATC was a money pit too. The trick is to run aircraft and boats for perspective, guns are cheap and don't require maintenance. They can sit and don't consume money to store, don't need servicing or prohibitively expensive insurance. Really if you sell them one day and got your use out of them for the depreciation they cost you nothing. And who doesn't like customising guns? ;) Best way to kill winter I've found.
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Im at your feet and learning... thank you, Mary Lou Retton...
 
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