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CPJ 2.0 wrote: ↑Mon Nov 06, 2023 2:50 am I like this. A lot. Marked Herters on the barrel, it’s a CZ Mauser action. It’s my cousins, who got it from his dad. His dad ordered the barreled action and stock separately, sometime in the mid 1960s. Right hand action, that he shot left handed, hence the stock.
I like the stock, because it’s not gaudy like a Weatherby style stock from the same era. I’ll even forgive the white line spacers. I was confirming zero today, and good thing I did. It was off. Not sure why someone would want a “vintage” scope, but hey. Not my deal. After deer season, it’s getting brought home and getting a spa treatment. It’s NASTY inside the bolt. I’ll remove the rust and refinish the stock. Too nice to let it be.

Wambli Ska wrote: ↑Mon Nov 06, 2023 6:45 am Beautiful! Love the classics from that era. 30-06?

bullsi1911 wrote: ↑Mon Nov 06, 2023 12:23 pm That is a classic from the era. Very nice, and I want to see how you get it to shoot!

Zee wrote: ↑Mon Nov 06, 2023 3:03 pm What ammo you using? If I had to guess, being an older rifle, it could likely have a slower twist rate than common today.

CPJ 2.0 wrote: ↑Mon Nov 06, 2023 12:15 pm

Wambli Ska wrote: ↑Mon Nov 06, 2023 6:45 am Beautiful! Love the classics from that era. 30-06?

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Japhy wrote: ↑Mon Nov 06, 2023 5:35 pm Most likely that stock comes from Warsaw, Missouri
home of Reinhart Fajen and is made from Missouri walnut. Relatives sold many walnut trees to RF years ago.

Bigslug wrote: ↑Tue Nov 07, 2023 1:33 pm NICE! I'll take the cheap hunting rifle of the '60's over the cheap hunting rifle of now any day! That rifle may have been built up in rebellion to the fact someone had just recently lost the ability to buy a "real" Winchester Model 70. Close enough to the Sears/JC Higgins Model 51/FN-M98 as to make little difference. It deserves your attention.

Once upon a time, I'd instinctively have kicked the "vintage optics" and their mounts to the curb. Any more, it's probably a judgement call starting with function. Friction adjustments rub me the wrong way. Crappy light transmission rubs me the wrong way. Intact, working, examples of period combos however tend to rub me jussssssst right in special places.

Then again, I was recently inspired to help a work buddy upgrade the '60's or '70's hand-me-down glass on his mid-'80's Remington 78 Sportsman after he came out last year with a limited amount of ammo needing to get zeroed mere days before season opener. Not only was it friction dials, they weren't marked in any way, shape, or form as to what the adjustment value per hash mark was. Definitely not confidence building when you're still chasing the spotter with only ten rounds left. . .including the ones he had to hunt with. Set him up with a VX3 2.5-8CDS-L sporting a custom dial for the ammo he's shooting. After I sent him a 1" 200 yard group, I don't think he misses the old scope too much.

Dunno. . .the desire to hunt with Grandpa's rifle as-is sometimes collides with the reality that he'd have used our optics if he had 'em.

jbp-ohio wrote: ↑Wed Nov 08, 2023 12:59 am Is the stock missing a fore end cap? Looks unfinished.

CPJ 2.0 wrote: ↑Tue Nov 07, 2023 3:18 pm I think what draws me to this one over most rifles from the same period is that it’s PLAIN. Not gaudy. Just well crafted.

CPJ 2.0 wrote: ↑Wed Nov 08, 2023 4:19 am

jbp-ohio wrote: ↑Wed Nov 08, 2023 12:59 am Is the stock missing a fore end cap? Looks unfinished.

It looks perfect. Not like some pimp owns it.

jbp-ohio wrote: ↑Wed Nov 08, 2023 2:49 pm

CPJ 2.0 wrote: ↑Wed Nov 08, 2023 4:19 am

jbp-ohio wrote: ↑Wed Nov 08, 2023 12:59 am Is the stock missing a fore end cap? Looks unfinished.

It looks perfect. Not like some pimp owns it.

Nothing wrong with just using the same wood throughout. Heck. The 788 is my favorite rifle (although I never owned one. But it isn't shaped. It looks perfectly flat like it was meant for something else to be glued on.