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headoftheholler
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Project Custom Mannlicher Mauser begins
#238723 - 05/12/13 10:42 AM

I found a old Bishop Mannlicher full length stock for my Swedish mauser, I have a ton of old bedding to chip out. I'm going to fit a walnut buttplate and TRY to fit a custom nosepiece from an 8 point I took a few years back. I say try because I don't know if this is something I'm capable of fitting so it looks right, I always have the steel cap to fall back on.
Here is what we start with:

A rough mock up just to see how much work we have:

Walnut buttplate from a Beretta prior to shaping and sanding:

Antler nosecap taking shape:

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Re: Project Custom Mannlicher Mauser begins [Re: headoftheholler]
#238733 - 05/12/13 03:45 PM

With antler nosecap yours stock should have bavarian model butt with their typical cheek piece. Monte Carlo stock with such a horn piece could look a bit tasteless. As a nose cap material black buffalo horn fits much better to yours stock style.

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headoftheholler
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Re: Project Custom Mannlicher Mauser begins [Re: Igorrock]
#238734 - 05/12/13 04:09 PM

"Taste" is objective. Obviously I am wanting to keep the montecarlo stock to help with cheekweld since I am using a scope. For what its worth I am not attempting to copy any particular rifle or stlye (Bavarian) I am making a stock to my own taste, however much you may not like it.

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Re: Project Custom Mannlicher Mauser begins [Re: headoftheholler]
#238736 - 05/12/13 06:59 PM

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"Taste" is objective. Obviously I am wanting to keep the montecarlo stock to help with cheekweld since I am using a scope. For what its worth I am not attempting to copy any particular rifle or stlye (Bavarian) I am making a stock to my own taste, however much you may not like it.

And thats how it is too,good onya for 'rolling your own'

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John303
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Re: Project Custom Mannlicher Mauser begins [Re: gryphon]
#238748 - 06/12/13 12:26 AM

Well to each his own (taste), my only suggestion would be to follow the horny theme a bit further
and put on a horn grip cap and a butt plate. Your nose cap seems a bit "lonely" --- John

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Re: Project Custom Mannlicher Mauser begins [Re: John303]
#238781 - 06/12/13 05:36 AM

the walnut buttplate looks nice but a horn pistol grip cap could be a good idea!
a monte carlo stock for scope use is allways some kind of compromise but I have seens such full stocks with a horn nose cap before.

Edited by lancaster (06/12/13 07:36 AM)

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458Win
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Re: Project Custom Mannlicher Mauser begins [Re: lancaster]
#238993 - 09/12/13 05:12 AM

NICE, I like rifles that show the owners taste, expecially ones with interesting tastes

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headoftheholler
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Re: Project Custom Mannlicher Mauser begins [Re: 458Win]
#239005 - 09/12/13 08:37 AM

Got the stock inletted for the side mount scope and the buttplate shaped to the stock.

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Re: Project Custom Mannlicher Mauser begins [Re: headoftheholler]
#239044 - 10/12/13 02:29 AM

looks good! keep it up. My own project has stalled a little but its cold out now so I should get back to it soon. sometimes just checking out someone elses work gets me motivated again, Thanks! Looking forward to some more.

What about some ebony plugs for the buttplate screwholes?

Edited by barryowens (10/12/13 02:29 AM)

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headoftheholler
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Re: Project Custom Mannlicher Mauser begins [Re: barryowens]
#239074 - 10/12/13 02:39 PM

Thanks, the screws that are in it now are just temporary, was going to put in some fire blued screws, but the plug idea is awesome.

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Re: Project Custom Mannlicher Mauser begins [Re: headoftheholler]
#239109 - 11/12/13 08:04 AM

Floorplate filed flush with bottom of stock, trigger guard re-profiled to thinner shape.

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Re: Project Custom Mannlicher Mauser begins [Re: headoftheholler]
#239116 - 11/12/13 11:05 AM

Got some more progress made on the antler nosecap, I plan on making the tail end flush with the stock, just not sure if I have enough clearance from the muzzle blast.

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458Win
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Re: Project Custom Mannlicher Mauser begins [Re: headoftheholler]
#239341 - 16/12/13 06:27 AM

If it were mine I would place the cap so the longest portion was slightly behind the muzzle.
One of the benefits of schnabble tips was that they made a good firm grip if you used the rifle as a walking staff in the mountains

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Re: Project Custom Mannlicher Mauser begins [Re: 458Win]
#239374 - 16/12/13 11:17 PM

Actually I am going with a longer piece of antler, in trying to duplicate the dimensions of the steel nose cap, the new antler one became too fragile and thin to work with due to the taper of the stock (thinner wood towards the tip). I'm going to bring the nose cap inletting back 3 inches and try again with a different piece of antler.

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Re: Project Custom Mannlicher Mauser begins [Re: headoftheholler]
#239376 - 16/12/13 11:30 PM

As they say beauty is in the eye of the beholder. Good on you for having the guts to try something new! Please keep the photos coming

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Re: Project Custom Mannlicher Mauser begins [Re: 458Win]
#239399 - 17/12/13 07:16 AM

Quote:

If it were mine I would place the cap so the longest portion was slightly behind the muzzle.
One of the benefits of schnabble tips was that they made a good firm grip if you used the rifle as a walking staff in the mountains

Phil,
may I express some doubt to that?
Bad for the stock and potentially dangerous...
Even today mountain hunters in Austria and Bavaria have their Bergstock / mountain staff, cut from hazel.

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headoftheholler
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Re: Project Custom Mannlicher Mauser begins [Re: fuhrmann]
#239458 - 18/12/13 06:38 AM

Steel grip cap came in

Floorplate scrubbed of all military stampings:

Before and after , reprofiling military follower to allow closing the bolt on an empty magazine without depressing the follower:

Edited by headoftheholler (18/12/13 01:11 PM)

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458Win
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Re: Project Custom Mannlicher Mauser begins [Re: fuhrmann]
#239576 - 20/12/13 05:50 AM

Quote:

Quote:

If it were mine I would place the cap so the longest portion was slightly behind the muzzle.
One of the benefits of schnabble tips was that they made a good firm grip if you used the rifle as a walking staff in the mountains

Phil,
may I express some doubt to that?
Bad for the stock and potentially dangerous...
Even today mountain hunters in Austria and Bavaria have their Bergstock / mountain staff, cut from hazel.

Regards,
fuhrmann

I certainly didn't mean they were used as primary walking staffs but only as "make-do" staffs when real ones were not carried.

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Re: Project Custom Mannlicher Mauser begins [Re: 458Win]
#239616 - 20/12/13 07:45 PM

Quote:

I certainly didn't mean they were used as primary walking staffs but only as "make-do" staffs when real ones were not carried.

Sure, but then one starts wondering if anybody would add some Schnabel or whatever bulge or ulcer to provide a good grip "just in case"?

IMO these "why" discussions can be lots of fun but are in the end "academic" because we do not know what the maker and the customer really thought and wanted back then...
Some stock shapes are clearly functional, but fashion also will play a role. And fashion will be repeated because it looks good or at some time "because that's the way it is done...."

Use of horn on a rifle is one such example. Really fashionable after Emperor Franz Joseph of Austria grew fond of rifles made by the gunmaker Leithner in Bad Ischl.
Example: http://www.hermann-historica.de/auktion/...;db=kat63_s.txt

Even today Austrian and German gunmakers build Ischlerstutzen!

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458Win
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Re: Project Custom Mannlicher Mauser begins [Re: fuhrmann]
#239665 - 22/12/13 05:27 AM

People who like guns can be strange at times

Or so my wife tells me

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Re: Project Custom Mannlicher Mauser begins [Re: 458Win]
#239667 - 22/12/13 06:32 AM

HA!

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headoftheholler
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Re: Project Custom Mannlicher Mauser begins [Re: DarylS]
#239676 - 22/12/13 02:52 PM

I wasn't happy with the smaller piece of antler so I went with another antler crown, epoxied and ready for final finishing.

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458Win
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Re: Project Custom Mannlicher Mauser begins [Re: headoftheholler]
#239704 - 23/12/13 12:09 PM

That one flows better, will be interested to see how it blends with the staining and finish

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Re: Project Custom Mannlicher Mauser begins [Re: 458Win]
#240032 - 02/01/14 08:58 AM

Grain is filled , waiting to cure prior to checkering and final finish.

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headoftheholler
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Re: Project Custom Mannlicher Mauser begins [Re: headoftheholler]
#240668 - 15/01/14 12:40 PM

Front sling post, rear sling stud and hood for front sight came in and installed.
Still waiting on bottom metal at local engraver, still have to bed stock and checker.

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