Doan Trevor Custom Rifle Building

Fiddleback Claro Walnut Rifle Stock with Barnard Action Finished

Posted on November 14, 2013 by Sue

Custom stock design, chambered, and BRX for longrange prone shooting

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Koa Thumbhole Stock for Barnard Action

Posted on November 10, 2013 by Sue

This is probably the only Koa Thumbhole stock in the world! I made two buttplates for this rifle so that it could be used for International (300 meters) and HighPower.

Claro Thumbhole for Barnard Action IMG_1429.CR2

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Modifying and Cleaning a Kenyon trigger for an adjustable trigger shoe

Posted on November 8, 2013 by Sue

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Machining and Drilling to install Adjustable Buttplate and Cheekpiece for Fancy Mango Rifle Stock for 52-E Smallbore Prone Target Rifle

Posted on November 4, 2013 by Sue

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Duplicating Fancy Mango Rifle Stock for 52-E Smallbore Prone Target Rifle

Posted on November 1, 2013 by Sue

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F Class Practice at Ben Avery

Posted on October 29, 2013 by Sue

“Rick Curtis made this video and all credit goes to him. He took his time away from shooting to run the match and take videos!

Basically, the video shows an F-Open shooter and 4 FTR class shooters of varying shooting style over at the 600 yard line at Ben Avery range.

The rifle that Doan just finished for me shot high agg score in FTR, but we were all on different relays and it is hard to quantify how things might have turned out had we fired together. Had a little more elevation than I would have liked to have seen, but the issues were ammunition and “operator induced” learning a position. Can place no blame on the rifle or any other equipment. Lots of points left on the table due to corner shots and I will be working hard to eliminate them. Quite pleased with the stock so far, even though I waaaay overestimated my weight. The rifle came in at 1-1/4 pounds under weight limits! The Spruce Goose could have been made of Walnut :)”

~G.U.

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Progress on Koa Anschutz Thumbhole Stock

Posted on October 29, 2013 by Sue

The trigger guard picture is final machining so that the trigger will fit through the trigger guard. The next pictures of the stock show that it is ready for the final four standings.

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Koa Anschutz Thumbhole Stock for Barnard action

Posted on October 28, 2013 by Sue

Fitting Trigger Guard to Stock

Getting ready to take the action out of bedding Inletting Action being inletted

Stock being duplicated

Duplicated stock being roughed out with a #49 and #50 wood rasp

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Single Shot Bo Clerke Rifle

Posted on October 23, 2013 by Sue

I received the action by itself, with several missing parts. It appeared that it had never had a stock or a forend on the action, so I had to create the hardware to hold the forend and the stock. The stock had to be carved by hand because some of the angle of the drawscrew was at a strange angle, making the job difficult to put a hole in the stock. The first stock I made ended up having a void in the center of the stock when I got it shaped, and I ended up making a second stock. Then it was a matter of fitting the forend and the second stock. I tried to keep the piece period by using a pre 64 Winchester buttplate that I salvaged. The buttplate was a mess and required a lot of restoration – Bakers Express Bluing.

Fitting the forend to the receiver This is the first stock where I found the void. Too bad, it was a beautiful piece of wood. The photo was enlarged to make a pattern for carving. Start of the second stock.

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Anschutz Stolle Panda Completed

Posted on October 15, 2013 by Sue

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F/TR Class Spruce Stock Complete

Posted on October 4, 2013 by Sue

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Anschutz Stolle Panda in Bedding Compound

Posted on October 4, 2013 by Sue

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Inletting an Anschutz 2013 to fit a Stolle Panda Action

Posted on October 3, 2013 by Sue

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Texas Tallboy Offset Sight Complete

Posted on October 2, 2013 by Sue

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Spruce Stock Ready for Sanding

Posted on October 1, 2013 by Sue

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Inletting and bedding completed, now fitting trigger guard

Posted on September 30, 2013 by Sue

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National Rifle Champion Derek Rodgers Trades Chickens for Riflebuilding

Posted on September 29, 2013 by Sue

F-TR Nat’l Champion Derek Rodgers Shares His Winning Secrets

While attending the 2013 F-Class World Championships at Raton, we had a chance to talk with Derek Rodgers, who had just been named the 2013 U.S. F-TR National Champion. Derek’s F-TR Win at Raton makes him the only shooter to have won U.S. F-Class National titles in both F-Open and F-TR divisions. Derek was excited about his performance at Raton: “F-TR was my first love in competitive shooting and [winning the F-TR title] has always been a personal goal to achieve”. In this Q&A session, Derek tells us about his rifles and his Nationals-winning .308 Winchester load. Derek also provides some advice for new shooters in the F-TR game.

“Doan Trevor built the entire rifle. Doan even made all of the hardware on the gun. Doan was able to drop pounds vs. ounces as a result. Doan’s 3-way butt-plate hardware alone weighs just half a pound! Doan was highly attentive in helping me build the gun the way I wanted. His bedding and fitment is clean and he has creative ideas for the competitive shooter. While my stock is fiberglass, Doan really shines when it comes to building stocks from wood blanks. In fact, Doan built the stock used by second-place finisher Lige Harris, and also fourth-place Trudie Fay. I feel fortunate to have Doan so close. He’s truly a master craftsman who can quickly turn a project into reality.”