This Blaser stock is crazy

[hoytcanon]

That 132 year old lever action that was found in the desert a few years back looked pretty cool... that was pretty "distressed."

 

[BlackRam]

That is just a neat find!
Makes you wonder at its story.

 

[Big bore dinosaur]

That 132 year old lever action that was found in the desert a few years back looked pretty cool... that was pretty "distressed."

Sad day for some poor guy...
" just left it beside this tree ,I think"
Cool pic, anyhow

 

[hoytcanon]

Sad day for some poor guy...
" just left it beside this tree ,I think"
Cool pic, anyhow

I think the coyotes may have scattered his bones...

 

[SuperCub]

That rifle would be perfect for the guy who didn't get enough attention with his last rifle.

 

[blasted_saber]

That is one ugly rifle

Barf

 

[SHELL SHUCKER]

That Blaser looks like a Hobbit rifle. I'd rather have the R8 Silence in 9.3x62 meself.

 

[elker]

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That Blaser looks like a Hobbit rifle. I'd rather have the R8 Silence in 9.3x62 meself.

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I have had the same thought only to realize that we are in a wrong country. Will use my new r8 this spring though

 

[vagrantviking]

Me neither, it looks like it's made of cheap resin.

Looks like a cheap plastic casting like you would find on tacky dollar store party decorations. Do they make a steampunk version with phony gears and gauges all over it?

I can see what they are aiming for but it just looks hokey. Pietta or Uberti make Colt SAA with an antique finish that always looks off to me too but it's a lot better than these.

 

[Dmay]

So what's the story? Blaser actually did that? Or somebody just got creative with couple of their new thumbhole stocks?



I like mine better:

 

[Big bore dinosaur]

Dmay. Great stock .. interesting cheek well shape on that stock.
Never seen that before

 

[Rob]

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[Rob]

So what's the story? Blaser actually did that? Or somebody just got creative with couple of their new thumbhole stocks?



I like mine better:
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If that is really your rifle, I'd like to hear about it. Here is a picture of my Blaser K71 in 7.5x55 Swiss

 

[Dmay]

If that is really your rifle, I'd like to hear about it.

Yep, it is. Stutzen Attache, Grade 9 wood, 7x57R.

 

[jjohnwm]

I love my Blasers from a functional standpoint, will never get rid of them...but I think almost all of them look like crap. The plastic ones are bad, but the ones that utilize beautiful wood are even worse, IMHO. They just don't know when to quit, always crossing the line from "nice" to "WTF? What did they do to that wood????" The rifle in the first post of this thread just continues that trend. Ugh.

Rob's K71 has the nicest lines, along with the K95, of any Blaser. That stock style, done up in magnificent wood, would make a lovely rifle, again in my opinion.

Dmay, no disrespect intended; your gun has many beautiful features and amazing wood. But again, they just kept going and going and going...I mean, slicing tiny slabs of matching wood and then adhering it to the sidewalls of the action, between the buttstock and the fore-end? Sorry, just...nah...

To each his own!

 

[guy329]

Here's my Blaser K95 Black Edition in 6.5x55
I've never regretted buying a Blaser.

http://www.blaserbuds.com/forum/download/file.php?id=18333&mode=view

 

[Rob]

....They just don't know when to quit, always crossing the line from "nice" to "WTF? ....they just kept going and going and going...)

An "over the top" surface treatment is typical of numerous high end European rifles. Obviously many are willing to pay a premium for wildly figured wood, somewhat garish wood carving, deep sculptural engraving, and even gold plating (see the two Mauser 66 rifles in photo below...neither is mine). And while one man's deluxe is another man's kitsch, and although I myself prefer somewhat cleaner lines in both metalwork and woodwork, I have rarely met a rifle I didn't like. And I like the Blaser K95 Stutzen Attache.

 

[hoytcanon]

Those are hideous.