Neanderpundit

I was more than a bit miffed at Firehand for posting pics of a lovely little cadet rifle, and further posting a link to a place that sells them.

So here’s your comeuppance, Anvil-Boy. Top this:

This is a martini style schuetzen rifle, highly ornate, heavily engraved, with an ornate underlever and adjustable peep sight. Here’s the other side:

The barrel is every bit as ornate. I’m going to have the barrel rebored to 25-20 WCF (the original bore and chamber were damaged)and fit a stock. My intention is to use this in ASSRA matches which they shoot not far from here every year. It’ll probably take me ten years to collect the cash I need to finish it off, but I’ll get’er done.

Haven’t done a lot lately, but it’s because I’ve been up to my ass in alligators. I have been doing a lot of stuff, just haven’t had time to post anything.

What’s going on at present, is I’ve got about five project guns.

1: Enfield 17, I’m debating between rebarreling it to big game, or taking it all back to stock. It’s been (badly) sporterized, but the iron is all there, and good, and it shoots like blazes.

2: LeFever Nitro Special in 20 gauge. I love this fine old double shotgun, though it’s stock is rugged. Was dad’s rabbit gun, and a damned good one. I’m trying to find someone to hook me up with a decent stock blank so I can duplicate the stock.

3: Hopkins & allen falling block. This came to me by accident, and was originally chambered for 32 WCF, though the block was missing. I’m trying to put my hands on a new block, but I may have to settle for welding up and redrilling the old one. I already have a nice octagonal barrel.

4: 93 (spanish) mauser, for which I have just ordered a new Shilen barrel in 7.62X39. THe 93 action won’t tolerate anything more powerful, but the 7.62 is gentle enough not to blow apart the relatively weak 93 action. I’d have gone for the 257 roberts,but the 7.62 is the world’s commonest round.

5: MArtini schuetzen rifle. This is a wreck with a bad barrel, but an ornately engraved receiver, and I want to take the ornate octagonal barrel and rebore it from it’s original 22 hornet to 25-20 wcf. I think it’ll be well worth the effort. I’m going to start working on the replacement stock soon, mocking it up in Bondo before duplicating in european walnut.

As i do more, I’ll post pictures.

I had no overwhelming urge to stand in the freezing cold last weekend, so I spent ten bucks and hit the range.

There’s a decent (if small)range within a half hours drive, and though it’s a bit stuffy and close inside, it’s not horrible, and I spend a couple hours there. I shot up about a thousand rounds of 22, including some PMC match ammo, some Aguila match ammo and some Wolf match ammo. Bottomline? I can’t shoot any better with the spensive stuff than I can with the cheap Remington golden bullets.

The good news was I got shooting. And it felt good. And I’m gonna go back, over and over again, if I can.