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Igorrock
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Very interestin Gibbs .470 NE
#236964 - 22/10/13 07:12 AM

This page has copyright but klick the link and go to look nice rifle with a special stock.

http://www.waffenkofferundsafariausruestung.de/gibbs-doppelbuumlchse.html

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500Nitro
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Re: Very interestin Gibbs .470 NE [Re: Igorrock]
#236967 - 22/10/13 08:16 AM

Field repair to a cracked stock or to make it look like the famous gun ?

Either way, a nice job.

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Claydog
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Re: Very interestin Gibbs .470 NE [Re: 500Nitro]
#236969 - 22/10/13 08:55 AM

Too good a job to be a field repair surely? Either way very nice.

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Buchsemann
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Re: Very interestin Gibbs .470 NE [Re: Claydog]
#236972 - 22/10/13 12:18 PM

It does look a bit Selousish doesn't it?

http://forums.nitroexpress.com/showflat.php?Cat=0&Number=229708&an=0&page=0#Post229708

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Huvius
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Re: Very interestin Gibbs .470 NE [Re: Buchsemann]
#236975 - 22/10/13 01:17 PM

Yes, very nicely done whether as a repair or a preventative measure.
I'm not sold on the idea that any of these well fit Selous plated examples are repair jobs. Seems like a tremendous amount of work to properly fashion and fit them... Maybe even moreso than a restock.

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Nordmann
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Re: Very interestin Gibbs .470 NE [Re: Huvius]
#236983 - 22/10/13 06:02 PM

If it was born like that, then wouldn't the Selous plate be flush up to the back of the action action, and not just dropped directly in on the middle of the chequering? (without any border to the top of the plate)

Looks like a creative repair to a cracked stock to me...

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gwh
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Re: Very interestin Gibbs .470 NE [Re: Nordmann]
#236986 - 22/10/13 09:23 PM

Very nice

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Huvius
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Re: Very interestin Gibbs .470 NE [Re: Nordmann]
#236991 - 22/10/13 11:55 PM

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If it was born like that, then wouldn't the Selous plate be flush up to the back of the action action, and not just dropped directly in on the middle of the chequering? (without any border to the top of the plate)

Looks like a creative repair to a cracked stock to me...

Good point Nordmann.

I guess that not knowing just how thick the steel is clouds my perception of how difficult these plates would be to make.
They are probably much thinner than I think, that is why there are so many screws used to attach them. Even a thin compound form, if well fixed around the edges, would be quite rigid and I would think there would also be other types of stabilization of the break underneath the plates which we cannot see.

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