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<blockquote data-quote="8x68s" data-source="post: 3076995" data-attributes="member: 109828"><p>I have a good story...</p><p>My best friend of 50 years had me down for a visit and we took an afternoon to go visit his 92 year old father. It was Dad's birthday so we were bringing him a bottle of his favorite Scotch, <u>Scapa</u>. Dad asked what I'd been doing as I hadn't seen him in nearly 20 years. In part, I explained about my hunting and fishing after which he told us about his early days wanting to, but not hunting... family, kids, job... we all know the story. Says he has a rifle in the closet that he never got around to using! My buddy and I look at each other. He had no clue his Dad had the rifle. He goes to the designated closet and out comes a sporterized Steyr 1899 in 6.5x54R or 6.5mm Dutch Mannlicher. The barrel and other exterior metal work was hard used but not rusty and the slim, lightweight aftermarket stock was in great shape but had no markings. Evidently Dad had wanted to go hunting with his buddy's in the early 50's and bought himself a surplus rifle and aftermarket stock for a project to get himself up to speed with his friends. Alas, as mentioned, hunting never happened. </p><p></p><p>Dad thought that it was time to give the rifle away and offered it to me. I looked at my friend and asked if he didn't want it. It was a family heirloom, for goodness sake! I even offered to get it back to shooting shape for him. Nope, nope... he's not a hunter or even much into firearms and besides, it'd scare the bujeezus out of his missus. Well, ok, I guess I have a new rifle!</p><p></p><p>I took the rifle home and discovered the barrel was toast. Between being full of grease covering up massive pitting and rust, it was a loss. I sent the barreled action to PacNor here in Oregon to have it rebarreled in the same profile as the original and then Cerakoted. The one thing I changed, after a bunch of research into cartridge availability, was a chambering of 6.5x57R in hopes of having better luck with ammo. I found enbloc magazine clips for the original rifle cartridge hoping they would work for the new cartridge. Nada, dangit... I can't get them to work properly. The fix was to make a single shot sled out of Delrin that would snap into the mag slot so that I could use single feed. </p><p></p><p>I needed sights as there were none on the rifle originally so I bought a DNC brand, footed AR mount and figured out a conformation that could be machined and mounted to the front action ring. Bingo! The rifle now carries a lite weight, 1" Leupold 3-9x and weighs 9.0# and easily shoots an inch @ 100 yards.</p><p></p><p>What a lot of fun that rifle has been!</p><p></p><p>[ATTACH]560617[/ATTACH][ATTACH]560618[/ATTACH][ATTACH]560619[/ATTACH][ATTACH]560620[/ATTACH][ATTACH]560621[/ATTACH][ATTACH]560622[/ATTACH]</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="8x68s, post: 3076995, member: 109828"] I have a good story... My best friend of 50 years had me down for a visit and we took an afternoon to go visit his 92 year old father. It was Dad's birthday so we were bringing him a bottle of his favorite Scotch, [U]Scapa[/U]. Dad asked what I'd been doing as I hadn't seen him in nearly 20 years. In part, I explained about my hunting and fishing after which he told us about his early days wanting to, but not hunting... family, kids, job... we all know the story. Says he has a rifle in the closet that he never got around to using! My buddy and I look at each other. He had no clue his Dad had the rifle. He goes to the designated closet and out comes a sporterized Steyr 1899 in 6.5x54R or 6.5mm Dutch Mannlicher. The barrel and other exterior metal work was hard used but not rusty and the slim, lightweight aftermarket stock was in great shape but had no markings. Evidently Dad had wanted to go hunting with his buddy's in the early 50's and bought himself a surplus rifle and aftermarket stock for a project to get himself up to speed with his friends. Alas, as mentioned, hunting never happened. Dad thought that it was time to give the rifle away and offered it to me. I looked at my friend and asked if he didn't want it. It was a family heirloom, for goodness sake! I even offered to get it back to shooting shape for him. Nope, nope... he's not a hunter or even much into firearms and besides, it'd scare the bujeezus out of his missus. Well, ok, I guess I have a new rifle! I took the rifle home and discovered the barrel was toast. Between being full of grease covering up massive pitting and rust, it was a loss. I sent the barreled action to PacNor here in Oregon to have it rebarreled in the same profile as the original and then Cerakoted. The one thing I changed, after a bunch of research into cartridge availability, was a chambering of 6.5x57R in hopes of having better luck with ammo. I found enbloc magazine clips for the original rifle cartridge hoping they would work for the new cartridge. Nada, dangit... I can't get them to work properly. The fix was to make a single shot sled out of Delrin that would snap into the mag slot so that I could use single feed. I needed sights as there were none on the rifle originally so I bought a DNC brand, footed AR mount and figured out a conformation that could be machined and mounted to the front action ring. Bingo! The rifle now carries a lite weight, 1" Leupold 3-9x and weighs 9.0# and easily shoots an inch @ 100 yards. What a lot of fun that rifle has been! [ATTACH]560617[/ATTACH][ATTACH]560618[/ATTACH][ATTACH]560619[/ATTACH][ATTACH]560620[/ATTACH][ATTACH]560621[/ATTACH][ATTACH]560622[/ATTACH] [/QUOTE]
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