What rifles have fancy wood stocks?
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kiwikid
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Blaser list grade 4 as the standard wood for their K95 single shot rifle. As of last week upgrade stocks in NZ$ (equal to 0.64 US$) are as follows, grade 5 $703, grade 6 $1881, grade 7 $3291, grade 8 $5694, grade 9 $7349 and grade 10 $11626.
Below is a photo of the stock on a new Turkish single barrel shotgun, at the bottom left of the picture is the price at NZ$380 or US$244. It makes me wonder why stock upgrades are so expensive!
Below is a photo of the stock on a new Turkish single barrel shotgun, at the bottom left of the picture is the price at NZ$380 or US$244. It makes me wonder why stock upgrades are so expensive!
kiwikid
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YZ-80 is the Weatherby Varmintmaster chambered in 224 WM or 22-250? Now that is a work of art!
DMP25-06
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You might do a search of used rifles , and look for Griffin and Howe . They made some beautiful rifles .
denniss
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Go to champlinarms.com. they have some of the finest custom rifles with the most beautiful wood I have ever seen. They have been in business for over 50 years, have a great reputation. George Cassell is the owner
Blackhawk
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Check on the Web, all real custom gunsmiths can offer up any thing that you would ever desire.
The rub however is $$$$.$$
On the other hand company's like Kimber, , Remington , Tikka , Sako, Browning ,& Savage among others offer rifles. with beautiful wooden stocks that usually are priced within reason.
(Weatherby makes some beautiful wood presentation stocks as well as you are aware of )
To that end if you can live with a rifle that has been made to their speciation's meaning comb, and length of pull, and factory trigger , then a store bought rifle is just the ticket . ( this applies to their rifle stocks and to the type of wood that they use)
However IMHO your custom gunmakers and the rifles that they present are in a far different grade than your store bought rifles.
You can have a stock made that will fit you exactly as well as the type and style of wood that you choose and the entire dimensions and shape of the stock by simply ordering it along with your rifle from a competent smith.
With a custom gun you can choose rifles caliber , your barrel length ,as well as barrel contour, threaded muzzle end or tapered muzzle brake, stainless steel or blued barrel , type of trigger, ( again all custom work )
It all boils down to workmanship , as well as pride of ownership of a custom gun !
After all what you want and what you can afford are strictly up to you and your wallet!
Please note that their is nothing at all wrong with ordering a gun from a we known manufacturer like the ones that I mentioned above, after all the majority of all our working guns are just that ,working guns, not braggers.
My two cents worth!
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RIGBY from the UK, expensive but beautiful
Blaser
Farmer72
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Actually I believe it is 1973 or 1974 I have to call browning to find out as the serial doesn't follow Browning's regular convention.
Tom Erickson
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Bought it back in 86
@ Joel Russo stocked rifles.....and he is a member.
im338
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Some of my favorite stocks that I just had to have was a Weatherby Deluxe,and a browning with a maple stock the marbling on them were perfect.But both were out of my price range. But if price is not a issue look to blazer.
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