Tinker,

I look forward to the pics when you finally do get to building it. It sounds like you have a great shop. I hope to get there someday but currently I'm a parasite of a fellow I've corrupted into building his own DR's as well

. He is a retired tool and die guy who has a full shop because he does small production runs of stuff for extra money. I'm still learning every time I use the mill or lathe it seems. I'm fortunate that I have a built in teacher and a shop I can use anytime. I must be learning something as I can make a monoblock from a chunk of 4140 in about 3-4 hours by myself. That might not be impressive to the machinests here but that is a huge jump from where I started.

I remembered the Coggie pics. Any plans for that yet?

The little toplever sounds cool. How did you decide on 25-25 stevens? You turning your own cases from solid bar? You going smokeless or BP? A few years ago I had built a 25 hornet on small stevens frame single shot (marksman). It worked well enough but I had limited use for it and soon parted ways with the little rifle. I still have a marksman in .22 long.

Bill