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Well that is different. I like the wood but the ivory around the magazine looks like a repair to a mis-cut magazine opening. I won't bother to say what the schnable looks like.

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Interesting wood indeed. First time I've seen bubinga look like a give piece of curly maple.

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Here is a picture of an air rifle from Georgia (the country) that I found on the internet. Similarly grained Bubinga wood.

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Well that is different. I like the wood but the ivory around the magazine looks like a repair to a mis-cut magazine opening. I won't bother to say what the schnable looks like.

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I've seen ivory used that way on other gun stocks....ebony as well (which makes more sense to me). The real problem is that they used ivory at all, making travel with the rifle across political borders now virtually impossible because of the zero tolerance ivory ban. I inherited some elephant tusk carvings of Samurai from 18th c. Japan and I know something about transporting ivory across international borders. Its very difficult, even with 250 year old antique art works. Looks like this rifle is staying in Canada.

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I don't understand why people use a "magnum" cartridge chambering in a shorter barrelled rifle. instead of a cartridge chambering designed to burn off the powder in the appropriate barrel length.

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I don't understand why people use a "magnum" cartridge chambering in a shorter barrelled rifle. instead of a cartridge chambering designed to burn off the powder in the appropriate barrel length.

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There are plenty of factory rifles that use a cartridge that cannot burn all its powder in the given barrel length...the very popular (at least up in northwest bear country) Sako .375 H&H "Mannlicher" carbine comes to mind. Not every stutzen rifle needs to be in 6.5x54...handiness often trumps "appropriate barrel length." Maximum ballistic efficiency is only part of the rifle equation.

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My comment still stands and the logic. For examplea stutzen or carbine stocked and short barrelled 9.3x62 is a better choice than the same in .375 H&H or 9.3x64. A 9.3x57 and 9.5x57 as wekk, A .308 or even a .30-06 than a .300 Magnum. A 8x57 rather than a 8x68S.

JMO and logic. On the original commissioners of custom rifles or factory choices.

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Rpeck, how does Bubinga compares to walnut with regards to density and resulting weight? Tropical hardwoods are most of the time quite heavy; is the weight of you stock manageable?
Louis

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" Effectivness" should always be combined with good taste and style.

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The real problem is that they used ivory at all, making travel with the rifle across political borders now virtually impossible because of the zero tolerance ivory ban. I inherited some elephant tusk carvings of Samurai from 18th c. Japan and I know something about transporting ivory across international borders. Its very difficult, even with 250 year old antique art works. Looks like this rifle is staying in Canada.

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That is a truly excellent rifle. An Afro-stutzen if you will. .300 H&H to avoid military calibre trouble and achieve slightly better brush shooting performance with heavier bullets. Ivory inlay to bring focus and contrast to the black trigger guard and engraved floorplate, possibly influenced by Arabic or African folk (bubba) gun art. Bubinga to keep in the Africa theme plus moderate the recoil a bit, which is evidently an issue vis a vis the rubber recoil pad. Yet overall heavy Germanic flavor of the stock. Even the absence of checkering seems intentional as the stock would then look quite busy. A specific rifle built by a specific person for a specific purpose in a specific era, and very well executed.

Excellent.

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