kuduae
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More than a year ago there was a discussion of a bullpup prototype by one Marco Rigido: http://forums.nitroexpress.com/showflat.php?Cat=0&Number=204304&an=0&page=4#Post204304 I plainly wrote that I did not like signore Rigido's invention. I looked up his website then. Well, I was not awed by the guns shown there, rather amused. I saw a .500 jeffery rifle with a boxy, military style single-row magazine, cheap-looking "factory" style checkering panels and a curved bolt handle in a straight cutout. then an "engraving carrier" of a backlock hammer shotgun, underbolted only with a squarish belly. Mehulkamdar then challenged as not being a gunsmith myself and asked me to show a gun made by me before criticizing the works of a "great master" who gets awful lots of money for his work. I forgot about that challenge until I browsed through old threads today. I was never trained as a gunsmith except by the "school of cut and try" and some obsevations of the work by others. In fact, I am a (now retired) forester who does some hobby gunsmithing for my own use only. As Mehulkamdar asked, here are a half dozen rifles from my collection. Made over 30 years, the last one was made about 5 years ago. All were designed, stocked, sighted, finished and well used by your's truly.

From top to bottom: 7x57 on a 1912 vintage Mauser Oberndorf commercial intermediate length action. 9.3x62, Mauser 1930s commercial standard action. .416 Rigby on a ZKK 602 action, barrel rebored in Suhl from .375, made 1991. 9x57 on a WW1 military action, barrel rebored in the 1930s, done 1978. 10.75x63, barrel by Kalezki, Vienna 1906, Mauser Intermediate length action. .45-70 on a (unsplit) Greener Martini police action, barrel blank from Numrich.
I never filed any patents of my own, as anything worthwhile in gun design was already patented more than a hundred years ago and is now in the public domain. You just have to do a bit of research.
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Sarg
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Thank you for posting your rifles, some very good work in that lot !
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NitroX
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Good classic design rifles. Well done.
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Rule303
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Some nice rifles there. good work.
How many rounds does your 416 Rigby hold in the magazine?
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lancaster
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hope not to crawl here but you ask yourself why this is not the common taste. there are some very simple rules how to build a rifle and a gun and its not understandable why and when this got lost in the public.
the damned hippie's ... 
its like everything man have invented there are excellent reason's to call some things classic's!
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kuduae
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Quote:
How many rounds does your 416 Rigby hold in the magazine?
The mag holds four cartridges and the bolt can be closed over them. For reliability I did not alter the extractor to snap over the rim of a chambered cartridge. So the rifle is a four-shooter. Many years ago I got diappointed with gunsmithes who seemed to listen to my wishes and subsequently made things their usual way. So I started to serve myself. The guns I made to my own tastes and desires may not be perfect, but they serve me and function perfectly. I like them the way I made them.
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DarylS
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I agree - some nice rifles indeed - well done.
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Huvius
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I especially like the 416 and the 10.75. The position of the bolt knob is right there ready to rack the next round. The bolt handle may look long, generally, but there is a good reason for it to be that way on a DG gun. I really admire your willingness to pick up the tools and do it yourself. Nice work!
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greenshoots
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that 45/70 is nice
greenshoots
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TilleyMan
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Very nice work Kuduae... you've obviously been able to take the time to get it just right!
Any chance of some close-ups of the ZKK602
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mehulkamdar
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Kuduae,
Good work for an amateur. 
You also happen to be lexically challenged. I had asked you if you had a single firearms related patent to your name to show. I'm still waiting for details of those. And, of course, if you have people willing to pay for your work, that would accord it extra merit.
Considering that I'm unlikely to see either, you simply come across as a whiny old non-entity with little more than an opinion to offer. And, as the old one goes, opinions are like a certain part of the anatomy that everyone possesses . . .
Keep at it. You're always funny!
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HuntingSchneider
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WTF???
Isn't this supposed to be a gentleman's forum? What's with the unpleasantness???
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Taylor416
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Nice work! Thanks for posting!
cheers
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