Ron_Vella
(.333 member)
30/12/08 01:50 PM
Re: The .450 #2 passes the test with flying colours!

Many thanks to CaptCurl for posting these photos for me. Here's a brief explanation of them. Roscoe, feel free to move these under each photo if you like.

#1: The completed gun in its fitted case with all of the accessories. I turned the snap caps, oil bottle, vaseline bottle, spare firing pin cannister, and spare front sight insert cannister on my lathe, from brass. I also made the firing pin bushing wrench, chamber brush, and interchangeable-bit screwdriver, from walnut, steel, and brass. There is a hidden compartment under the Butler Creek scope caps which holds a supply of bore patches. There is another hidden compartment under the tools which holds all of the bore brushes, jags, screwdriver bits, etc.

#2 & 3: Rifle barrels assembled to the action with the shotgun barrels below.

#4: Quarter rib and rear sight. For some reason, the flash on my camera washes out the colour and makes these polished, deep blue surfaces look silver. I went to a local jeweller and bought a piece of 1.5mm diameter platinum wire from him. I used one of my screw-slitting files to cut, then undercut the vertical line in the express sight. I then used a hammer and a brass drift to tap the platinum wire down into that slot, then dressed it all off, polished it, and blued it. The Brits had this platinum insert thing 100% right. There is something about the stuff that just grabs your eye, regardless of lighting conditions.

#5 & 6: Here's the gun in front of what I built it to do. I took this Cape Buffalo in Zambia with a .458 bolt gun that I built about twenty years ago. Now I aim to go back and take a second one with the .450 #2 NE that I'm holding.

#7: Self-explanatory.

#8: View of the Hi-Viz front sight. This, combined with the platinum insert in the rear express, is a great combo. Everone who has handled this rifle, comments first on how much they love the sights.



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