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casper50
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Westley 1871 stock is done.
#131113 - 01/04/09 07:38 PM

I finished the stock for my Westley model 1871 improved martini in 577-500 #2 today. The wood came from Ebay, $125. The dies also came in the mail so I will load some rounds tomorrow.

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bouldersmith
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Re: Westley 1871 stock is done. [Re: casper50]
#131125 - 01/04/09 10:44 PM

looks great and like it would be a bunch of fun. Let us know how she shoots.
Steve

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88MauSporter
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Re: Westley 1871 stock is done. [Re: bouldersmith]
#131138 - 02/04/09 12:59 AM

Fantastic. Love the features. Beautiful wood grain and color. Is that a finished and checkered butt with no plate?

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DarylS
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Re: Westley 1871 stock is done. [Re: bouldersmith]
#131140 - 02/04/09 01:03 AM

Nice board you bought there, Casper - absolutely stunning. That early Martini looks similar ot theone Ross Seyfried wrote up in DGJournal. It's so odd and clunky looking, forend held on with a wedge - entry pipe for cleaning rod- so 'muzzleloader-ish' - it's beautiful - even more so when you peruse the engraving.

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casper50
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Re: Westley 1871 stock is done. [Re: DarylS]
#131146 - 02/04/09 01:34 AM

It has a steel buttplate with trapdoor. I haunt the stock wood area of ebay and get lucky quite often. I've got better blanks for the same or cheaper but I believe the wood should match the grade of the gun it's going on. I have one blank that I might not ever own a gun good enough to use it on.

$85

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DarylS
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Re: Westley 1871 stock is done. [Re: casper50]
#131147 - 02/04/09 02:01 AM

$85??? SOLD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!HA! - great find indeed. That wood would be OK on a #1 or an 1877 Sharps.
Imagine, an action like that available in 1871, along with bolt actioned Mauser '71, or Peebody Martini and in 73, the US government went with a trapdoor instead.

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