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oupa
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New stopping rifle - sort of
18/06/08 01:04 PM

Many years ago I picked up an acient Stevens M315 20bore with cut barrels. The gun was offered at a gun show as parts only. Most of it was there but a lot of it wasn't! I orginally intended to sleeve it to 28bore but one thing or another took presidence over the years. About two years ago I turned two take-off M98 Mauser barrels to fit, soldered them in and sleeved them to .22LR with the chamber ends offset to line up with the existing firing pins, which were then bushed. The rifle again was set asside, ocassionally pulled out and tinkered with but largely forgotten. About two weeks ago thanks to the torrential rain we've had this spring I started in on it again. The rifle is now ready for the finishing work to begin and I'm a bit excited about this neat little rifle, just the right medicine for charging bunnies, possums or similar small non-life threatening creatures! While the Stevens/Savage design is NOT suitable for much it is strong enough for such pipsqueek chamberings. The whole project has been quite a learning experience since so many missing parts had to be made by hand, not the lest of which was the fore end iron. Some other parts were re-engineered such as the sear springs and the stock through bolt I opted for over the orginal tang attachment. It ain't pretty but I hope the finish work will clean it up a little more. Heavy as sin (for a .22) but amazingly balanced when shouldered. Regulation is about "minute of orange" at 30 yards using cheap Remington high velocity ammo. As time permits and work progresses I'll try to post some photos.

Here's a photo as it presently exists.

Edited by CptCurl (30/06/08 02:13 AM)

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New stopping rifle - sort of	oupa	18/06/08 01:04 PM
Re: New stopping rifle - sort of	4seventy	04/07/08 08:35 PM
Re: New stopping rifle - sort of	oupa	05/07/08 12:57 AM
Re: New stopping rifle - sort of	Nighthawk	09/07/08 11:33 PM
Re: New stopping rifle - sort of	BigFiveJack	09/08/08 04:05 PM
Re: New stopping rifle - sort of	oupa	01/07/08 12:13 AM
Re: New stopping rifle - sort of	tinker	01/07/08 08:00 AM
Re: New stopping rifle - sort of	Nakihunter	01/07/08 08:42 AM
Re: New stopping rifle - sort of	oupa	01/07/08 09:17 AM
Re: New stopping rifle - sort of	dale	04/07/08 06:02 PM
Re: New stopping rifle - sort of	Bramble	01/07/08 06:33 AM
Re: New stopping rifle - sort of	bigmaxx	18/06/08 01:16 PM
Re: New stopping rifle - sort of	tinker	18/06/08 05:49 PM
Re: New stopping rifle - sort of	oupa	23/06/08 04:55 AM
Re: New stopping rifle - sort of	oupa	24/06/08 04:05 AM
Re: New stopping rifle - sort of	tinker	24/06/08 09:30 AM
Re: New stopping rifle - sort of	oupa	28/06/08 12:29 PM
Re: New stopping rifle - sort of	bigmaxx	28/06/08 01:35 PM
Re: New stopping rifle - sort of	oupa	29/06/08 12:24 PM
Re: New stopping rifle - sort of	Nakihunter	29/06/08 05:37 PM
Re: New stopping rifle - sort of	oupa	30/06/08 01:16 AM
Re: New stopping rifle - sort of	Nakihunter	30/06/08 10:06 AM
Re: New stopping rifle - sort of	CptCurl	30/06/08 02:19 AM
Re: New stopping rifle - sort of	oupa	30/06/08 08:07 AM
Re: New stopping rifle - sort of	tinker	29/06/08 02:41 PM
Re: New stopping rifle - sort of	tinker	24/06/08 04:58 AM

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