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Ron_Vella
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Re: The .450 #2 passes the test with flying colours!
30/12/08 01:50 PM

Many thanks to CaptCurl for posting these photos for me. Here's a brief explanation of them. Roscoe, feel free to move these under each photo if you like.

#1: The completed gun in its fitted case with all of the accessories. I turned the snap caps, oil bottle, vaseline bottle, spare firing pin cannister, and spare front sight insert cannister on my lathe, from brass. I also made the firing pin bushing wrench, chamber brush, and interchangeable-bit screwdriver, from walnut, steel, and brass. There is a hidden compartment under the Butler Creek scope caps which holds a supply of bore patches. There is another hidden compartment under the tools which holds all of the bore brushes, jags, screwdriver bits, etc.

#2 & 3: Rifle barrels assembled to the action with the shotgun barrels below.

#4: Quarter rib and rear sight. For some reason, the flash on my camera washes out the colour and makes these polished, deep blue surfaces look silver. I went to a local jeweller and bought a piece of 1.5mm diameter platinum wire from him. I used one of my screw-slitting files to cut, then undercut the vertical line in the express sight. I then used a hammer and a brass drift to tap the platinum wire down into that slot, then dressed it all off, polished it, and blued it. The Brits had this platinum insert thing 100% right. There is something about the stuff that just grabs your eye, regardless of lighting conditions.

#5 & 6: Here's the gun in front of what I built it to do. I took this Cape Buffalo in Zambia with a .458 bolt gun that I built about twenty years ago. Now I aim to go back and take a second one with the .450 #2 NE that I'm holding.

#7: Self-explanatory.

#8: View of the Hi-Viz front sight. This, combined with the platinum insert in the rear express, is a great combo. Everone who has handled this rifle, comments first on how much they love the sights.

Edited by ronvella (30/12/08 01:55 PM)

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The .450 #2 passes the test with flying colours!	Ron_Vella	15/01/07 02:25 AM
Re: The .450 #2 passes the test with flying colours!	CptCurl	15/01/07 11:50 PM
Re: The .450 #2 passes the test with flying colours!	500grains	15/01/07 12:08 PM
Re: The .450 #2 passes the test with flying colours!	Ron_Vella	15/01/07 12:31 PM
Re: The .450 #2 passes the test with flying colours!	sakmyk	16/01/07 10:50 AM
Re: The .450 #2 passes the test with flying colours!	Ron_Vella	16/01/07 12:19 PM
Re: The .450 #2 passes the test with flying colours!	Marrakai	17/01/07 01:01 AM
Re: The .450 #2 passes the test with flying colours!	Ron_Vella	17/01/07 01:54 AM
Re: The .450 #2 passes the test with flying colours!	sakmyk	17/01/07 03:33 AM
Re: The .450 #2 passes the test with flying colours!	Ron_Vella	17/01/07 03:58 AM
Re: The .450 #2 passes the test with flying colours!	Ron_Vella	06/02/07 03:19 AM
Re: The .450 #2 passes the test with flying colours!	Double_Trouble	06/02/07 05:12 AM
Re: The .450 #2 passes the test with flying colours!	stoerte	06/02/07 04:51 AM
Re: The .450 #2 passes the test with flying colours!	mickey	06/02/07 05:15 AM
Re: The .450 #2 passes the test with flying colours!	Ron_Vella	06/02/07 05:22 AM
Re: The .450 #2 passes the test with flying colours!	banzaibird	10/02/07 12:07 AM
Re: The .450 #2 passes the test with flying colours!	CptCurl	29/12/08 01:20 PM
Re: The .450 #2 passes the test with flying colours! DELETED	Ron_Vella	10/02/07 02:42 AM
Re: The .450 #2 passes the test with flying colours!	banzaibird	10/02/07 03:18 AM
Re: The .450 #2 passes the test with flying colours!	Ron_Vella	10/02/07 03:40 AM
Re: The .450 #2 passes the test with flying colours!	Chasseur	13/02/07 06:36 AM
Re: The .450 #2 passes the test with flying colours!	Robgunbuilder	30/12/08 05:00 AM
Re: The .450 #2 passes the test with flying colours!	CptCurl	30/12/08 11:31 AM
Re: The .450 #2 passes the test with flying colours!	Ron_Vella	30/12/08 01:50 PM
Re: The .450 #2 passes the test with flying colours!	Sarg	09/01/09 10:05 PM
Re: The .450 #2 passes the test with flying colours!	Ron_Vella	10/01/09 06:44 AM
Re: The .450 #2 passes the test with flying colours!	Sarg	10/01/09 07:57 AM
Re: The .450 #2 passes the test with flying colours!	Birdhunter50	13/01/09 12:27 AM
Re: The .450 #2 passes the test with flying colours!	NitroX	23/12/15 05:35 PM
Re: The .450 #2 passes the test with flying colours!	4seventy	10/02/07 11:24 PM
Re: The .450 #2 passes the test with flying colours!	Ron_Vella	28/12/08 12:58 AM
Re: The .450 #2 passes the test with flying colours!	CptCurl	28/12/08 01:42 AM
Re: The .450 #2 passes the test with flying colours!	Sarg	28/12/08 08:33 PM
Re: The .450 #2 passes the test with flying colours!	Ron_Vella	29/12/08 12:41 AM
Re: The .450 #2 passes the test with flying colours!	Sarg	29/12/08 08:56 AM
Re: The .450 #2 passes the test with flying colours!	Ron_Vella	11/02/07 08:37 AM
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Re: The .450 #2 passes the test with flying colours!	sakmyk	15/01/07 05:50 AM
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