All:

Over the past few months, I have been doing a lot of posts about actions, barrels and gun stocks for a "labor of love" project that my father and I are starting for my son, Ewan.

Well, the project is now officially under way, and I wanted to share with everyone the progress of this project.

As of right now, here is what we have:

A pre-1964 Winchester Model 70 action that was manufactured in 1955.

Roger Ferrell will be the gunsmith doing all of the action works, barrel installation and sight work.

Bill Soverns will be doing the stock work.

On Monday I wired Ali Denli the money for the Circassian Walnut wood blank that I am using for this project. The blank should arrive in the US in a a week or two. Here is a photo of the blank that Bill will be working with:

Bill will be carving the wood blank into a stock very similar to this shape: Custom Gun by Todd Ramirez

We have choosen a Kreiger Barrel for this project. Based upon feedback and recommendations from many people here on AR, specifics about this barrel include:

Chrome Molly
Blued
1 in 10" rate of twist
24" barrel
32 Standard Sporter Contour

We plan on have a barrel band front swivel and the sights will probably be from NECG.

That's the project as of today. The action will be shipped to Roger next week and he will order and install the barrel and do any and all necessary work on the action. He said it will probably take about 12 weeks for the barrel to arrive.