June 10, 2010
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Inletting, Rifle Building | Tagged: Metalworking, Woodworking, Inletting, Competition Shooting, Competitive Shooting, Target Shooting, Machining, Milling Machine, Rifle, Smallbore, Bedding, Rifle Stock, Custom Rifle Building |
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Posted by Doan
April 6, 2010
This has been one of my chief rants over the last couple of years… that the advent of the new rails and rings, which are actually pretty high quality, add so much height to the shooting position, that when you go from your iron sights to your scope you have to raise the cheekpiece 1/4″ to 3/8″. On this project I set out to make the scope at the same height as my iron sights. One of the things that I discovered is that when you order a set of rings (that they call low rings now) are the same height as an old set of Weaver rings. You think you’re getting low rings and they are actually high rings. The whole affair ends up that you have an extremely high cheekpiece when you get done. After arguing with the parts for 2 years, I decided to build a prototype for myself to see if it could be done, and still end up with a set of workable, reliable, repeatable rings that ended up the same height as the iron sights. I think this whole problem developed over having rings and bases to satisfy the tactical shooters. I appreciate the precision and the quality of rings that are being made for tactical rifles, but what you lose is the ability to shoot a prone rifle in a comfortable position. Or maybe I’m just getting to be a cranky old fart….








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Posted by Doan
March 1, 2010
This is a right hand stock with a left handed action.





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Cheekpiece, F-Class, Inletting, Rifle Building, Roughing Out the Stock | Tagged: Metalworking, Woodworking, Inletting, Competition Shooting, Competitive Shooting, Palma, Long Range, Target Shooting, Machining, Rifle, Smallbore, Bedding, Rifle Stock, Custom Rifle Building, F-Class, Custom Rifles |
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Posted by Doan
February 21, 2010
This machine is really handy to fix recoil lugs that have been overtightened, and also truing parts that need grinding. This is part of the equipment that was once owned by George Mitchell (Mitchell movie camera and Panavision).



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Posted by Doan
February 5, 2010
Doan is at the match in Phoenix this weekend, so I’m just finishing up some final pics.
~Sue






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Posted by Doan
January 29, 2010
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Cheekpiece, F-Class, Rifle Building | Tagged: Metalworking, Woodworking, Inletting, Competition Shooting, Competitive Shooting, Palma, Long Range, Target Shooting, Machining, Milling Machine, Rifle, Bedding, Rifle Stock, Custom Rifle Building, F-Class, Custom Rifles |
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Posted by Doan
January 28, 2010
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F-Class, Inletting, Rifle Building | Tagged: Metalworking, Woodworking, Competition Shooting, Palma, Long Range, Target Shooting, Machining, Milling Machine, Rifle, Bedding, Rifle Stock, Custom Rifle Building, F-Class, Custom Rifles |
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Posted by Doan
January 27, 2010



Typically, the Barnard action is bedded with either a round screw in the center of the action, or a square bedding block in the middle screw on the action. Since this is an F-Class rifle with a heavy barrel, I made a recoil lug to fit the slot in the bottom of the action so that I could use the middle screw as another action screw. I also enlarged the length of the bedding block.


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F-Class, Inletting, Rifle Building, Roughing Out the Stock | Tagged: Woodworking, Inletting, Competition Shooting, Competitive Shooting, Palma, Long Range, Target Shooting, Machining, Milling Machine, Rifle, Bedding, Rifle Stock, Custom Rifle Building, F-Class |
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Posted by Doan
December 20, 2009

Start of inletting and leveling stock in milling machine

Nice figuring in this wood

Setting up the stock for inletting
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Posted by Doan
November 6, 2009
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Inletting, Rifle Building, Veteran's Team Palma Rifle | Tagged: Bedding, Competition Shooting, Competitive Shooting, Custom Rifle Building, Inletting, Long Range, Metalworking, Milling Machine, Palma, Rifle, Rifle Stock, Target Shooting, Veteran's Palma Team Raffle Rifle, Woodworking |
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Posted by Doan
November 5, 2009
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Inletting, Rifle Building, Veteran's Team Palma Rifle | Tagged: Bedding, Competition Shooting, Competitive Shooting, Custom Rifle Building, Inletting, Long Range, Palma, Rifle, Rifle Stock, Target Shooting, Veteran's Palma Team Raffle Rifle, Woodworking |
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Posted by Doan
November 4, 2009
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Posted by Doan
October 31, 2009
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Posted by Doan
October 25, 2009
This is a H&H Ian Robertson stock that I modified the pistol grip on to match the owner’s wooden stocks that I have done in the past that were Culbertson patterns with a slightly larger pistol grip. I modified the grip to make it larger, matched the color and the silver pattern, installed butt plates, removeable cheek piece, bedding for a Barnard action, and made the trigger guard. The stock is a composite stock – from time to time I do work on composite stocks, although most of my stock work is with wood. Working with composite materials stems from when I spent years building custom motorcycles – show bikes.

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