Sporting Rifle- Scout style

[Chubbo]

Here is a Scout style sport rifle that I built. It is a 6.5x 55mm Swedish Mauser, using a Fagin stock blank. The outside dimentions of the stock was formed with a sharp hatchet, then finished, and checkered 28 to the inch checkering. On the forend the checkering goes completely around it. The butt plate & grip cap are made of ebbony, and are checkered also. The rifle is equiped with a rear lyman peep sight, a lyman hooded front ramp sight, and finally there is a luepold M-8 2x extend eye relief scope mounted in the Scout style out on the barrel in luepold quick change rings & mounts.
Chubbo

 

[Rbeckett]

Nice looking stock and I really like the hooded front and rear peep sights too. How does it shoot at 100+ yards, or what kind of groupls are you getting at your preferred target ranges? Is it free floating or bedded all the way to the end or just close in and under the receiver area only? Lots of questions, sorry. Just interested in the caliber and what you would use it to take critter wise and at what distances.

Bob

 

[Chubbo]

Hi, Bob:
I built the rifle as a short, light deer rifle, to use in heavy cover. the cal. 6.5x55 is ideal in that respect, using long heavy bullets, and a fast twist, that won't be deflected by brush. I never did get to use it for deer hunting in Penn. where I wanted to hunt. Ohio has never legalised modern rifles. It has been so long since I built and shot it that I don't have records of the groupes that it shot, 50 & 100yards, but as I remember they were a little above average for this type of rifle. The stock is bedded only by fit at the action, and uses a forend cap, at the front end. I'm sorry to say it has never been used for it's intended use, and resides now, as a safe queen. BTW this cal. is used by the bench shooting people, as it bucks the wind really well. Thanks.
Chubbo

 

[Rick Leslie]

That's a very nice looking package. I would really like to see some targets as well. The 6.5 is also a very popular moose cartridge in its native Sweden. It's also pretty popular locally among my fellow hunters. Makes a great deer round.

Could we get some more shots of the rifle?

 

[Chubbo]

You asked for more pictures, I took these today. I'v got some previous pictures mixed in the post, and can't find a way to remove them, Sorry. The Scout style mount on the bbl. is also home brewed, and the steel forend cap is store bought, but hand fit. I did the checkering in my own patterns, and in finer 28 LPI than most rifles that are 24 LPI. I made the magizine plate release button also, so it could be done with your fingers, instead of with a bullet point, and polished the feed plate. There are cavities under the butt plate to carry a couple of spare rounds. Thanks for the interest.
Chubbo

 

[Rick Leslie]

Thanks for the pics. Again, that's a great job. I envy anyone with the patience and talent to checker wood.