Doan Trevor Custom Rifle Building

Off-Set Sights are great when you can see better out of you non-dominant eye…. and you want to continue shooting.

I make also make off-set scope mounts to go with the sights.

EDIT: NEW LINK PROVIDED

As you know I had my hand in building this year's Palma/F-TR Raffle Rifle. All proceeds go to the Palma Teams.

No longer do you have to go to the matches for a chance to win. Online purchase is now available. Link is below.

PLEASE share this post to support the US Palma Teams.

You can find more picture of this rifle in an August post here on this blog.

Thanks,

Doan

Here is the link to purchase tickets:

PALMA RIFLE RAFFLE TICKETS!

Three pieces of wood were selected for this project and set out to view. It was an unusual day in New Mexico as it rained. The piece of wood that the customer selected was not necessarily the one that I would have chosen, however it turned out to be a beautiful piece of wood with Fiddleback and Burl.

Since Barnard actions are so precision made, I don’t require the action, and can build the rifle without the action.

Repeat customers are very important to me. This is also the owner of the stock in the previous post post. 

This Rifle was previously won in 2007. It is 10 years to the date from when I built it that I've refinished it.

One of the Stocks has turned out to be a beautiful piece of exhibition grade Claro walnut. The other one is a piece of Claro Walnut that had a huge knot in the back of the stock that looks like a universe. They are two outstanding pieces of wood for right-handed stocks and I'm waiting for a customer for each of them.

Precision Turbo Action

Trudie used her favorite sling rifle. I re-barreled the rifle for her last year. She shot 112 X's out of 180 shots. That is 62% X's. Lige used a spruce stock, that I made for him a few years ago.

A special thank you to Tom Alves for the Trigger donation and Gary LaValley from Phoenix Precision for the Phoenix rear sight donation. This stock can also be used for F/TR. it will be at the Spirit of America Match Wednesday morning – Eagles Nest.

Still carving……. more pics

The desert ironwood strips have been inlaid on the stock and I have started to carve the rest of the stock. By scribing lines with the saw and using a wood chisel a lot of wood can be removed to get the shape of the stock.

Thank you to Gary LaValley from Phoenix Precision for the contribution! http://www.phoenix-Precision.com.

This will be a 22 Rimfire Bench Rifle. It will have Desert Ironwood accent pieces to make up the 3 inch forearm. It will be hand carved, similar to the turbo maple stock that I did several months ago. Lots of chips and carving. I've started the bedding so I can work from the center of the Rifle.

Final sanding on Team Rifle which takes many coats of finish.  The next photos should be the final photos or close to final.  I have had many requests and questions about where to purchase tickets for the raffle of this rifle and I am sorry but I don’t have an answer.  It will be up to the Palma folks.  My hope is that they will be able to figure out a way to accept PayPal online, as that will be much easier for everyone.  The rifle will be completed and will  be at the Spirit of America Match for the first presentation.

Note that the screws are labeled on the ends.

Thank you, Tom Alves! Final sanding started.

A huge thank you to Tom Alves, who stepped up and procured the trigger!

We still need a rear sight. It appears that Al Warner is not making any new sights at the moment.. If someone has a rear sight or know a manufacturer who would like to donate. It would be very much appreciated.

I have volunteered to build another raffle rifle for the US Palma National Rifle Team.  Work has begun today.  I am hoping to have this completed for the Spirit of America Match in Raton, NM this fall.  Here is an initial list of components:

• Pierce Action – donated by Pierce Engineering
• Brux Palma Barrel  donated by Brux Barrels
• Hand selected American  Walnut stock – Doan Trevor prone design, modified to be used for FTR, and can be shot either prone or FTR.  It will be similar to the stock that I custom designed for Derek Rodgers, which won several national championships and national medals.  Donated by Doan Trevor

Photos to follow……….

The one item we are lacking at this point is a Remington-style competition trigger.

Here is a link to a previous Veteran’s Palma Raffle rifle that I built.