Doan Trevor Custom Rifle Building

I did the bedding and made a special escutcheon for the rear tang. Also, put on a used Eric Johnson barrel, that appeared to be in excellent condition. What was interesting is the bore was .015″ off center Runout. Four Jawwed Chucks get heavier every year. The receiver and the trigger were like brand new, not broken-in at all. It’ll be interesting how it all works out.

The black and white photos show Gavray after the bombing during WWII. The color ones are what the town looks like now. The main road ends T-bones plaque site, which is right at the bridge over the Sienne. More on the bridge in a later post.

Here are photos of the ceremony of the unveiling of the plaque dedicated to my uncle. LL Doan got out of his tank during a firefight on German machine guns… and waded across the river took out a couple of German machine guns nests and an 88 battery. This led the 3rd Armored Division to advance through the rest of occupied France into German and to close the gap. For this received the French Legion of Honor and the the Distinguished Service Cross.

I was honored to raise the American Flag at the ceremony. My first cousin once removed, John Stout, LL’s grandson raised the flag with me.

In a later post, I’ll talk about the Bailey Bridge enactment by the 297th Engineering Regiment.

The lady in the Deuce and a half is Helen Patton, General Patton’s granddaughter. Some of you that were in Vietnam, may have served under her father 11th Calvary.

Arrived in Gavray, saw what my uncle saw. The picture with all the trees, the high point was the German outlook for overseeing the town and river. This is where my uncle waded across the river and took out the machine gun nest and an 88 battery with a 1911. Badass, according to Clare. This was the 3rd Armor Division.

Victory or Death.

We’ve been briefed on our contribution regarding the Ceremony on Friday. More information to follow.

On Monday, I had hernia surgery to fix a popped hernia. I had surgery 52 years ago, and it final wore out. Clare helped finish this stock. Picking it up and flipping it whenever I needed, I’m on a weight lifting restriction for a few weeks. She shorten the the two bigger action screws. I might have her apprentice, if the real estate gig doesn’t pan out.

Main stock is American Walnut. The pistol grip is Thuya Burl Wood with Bloodwood.

This stock should be heading to Atterbury, with it’s owner. Say, “Hi!” if you see it.

This action was won at the Southwest Nationals. The laminate stock has 3 different woods, Quilted Maple, Walnut and Bloodwood and is made by me. The maple looks iridescent and glows in the sun.

I brought out my special CNC machine to work the pistol grip. A curved sharp thing and a hammer. Fancy! I tend to go with the old school techniques because every hand is different. On of the reason I have folks snail mail me a tracing of their paw (hand).

This is a stock that I laminate from fancy maple, bloodwood and walnut.

Did the barrel channel, put in a piece of round stock aluminum. Then I used the aluminum in the barrel channel to run the stock back and forth to get the forend parallel.

More to come of this project.

I didn’t take pictures of this in two pieces, couldn’t deal with it, it was too sad.

You have to get the two pieces back together. I put the three dowels in from the front of the pistol grip. As the late Bob Jones would say, “Sosadon’t” as in So, it don’t do it again. Everything lined up really well except for one piece of tiny grain, it didn’t want not to cooperate, but it made it.

The chips on the milling machine are from one trigger guard.

And I almost buried my hitting tool/mallet/potato masher thingy in the duplicator.

Made some pieces for cheekpieces. The magnets are for being able to remove the cheekpiece and for adjusting for cast on and cast off.

Turkish Walnut is slight darker in color than other Walnuts. It’s also nicely figured. The pistol grip cap is Bloodwood.

This is a few days late, but it’s an important date in history.

“The first shots of the American Revolution occurred at roughly 5:30 in the morning, April 19, 1775. In the space of no more than a few minutes life for the people of Lexington had changed forever. Eight of their neighbors and relatives were dead and ten were wounded.”

Doing some restoration of The Spirit of America trophies. Have a few more to do. These were from the leaky container.

When we young my parents got us some cats and a dog.

Here I am with Cesar:

And here I am with Saber:

And here’s the puppy dog (with my brother) that we called Timber.

Accent pieces in pistol cap and fore end are Thuya wood and Bloodwood.

Once in a while, I’ll lose a day of woodworking, because the workbench needs to be recovered. Yesterday was that day. Clare came over to helped and take pictures.

Had a wonderful time at SWN. Always great to catch up with friends from all over the world.

Also, caught up with my few of my non-speaking friends. It’s been an honor to build these trophies over the last 11 years.

Been working on this for a couple of weeks. The grain goes every direction, it’s a difficult wood to work on. It’ll be beautiful when finished.

Using Thuya Burl and Blood wood for pistol grip and fore-end accent.

Finished picture to follow soon.

Here are the finished pictures from yesterday’s post.

Removed Anschutz label and replaced it with an inlay of Ebony.

Used 3 action screws with recoiled lug on the middle screw. Finished pictures to follow later.

Bedding the 2000 Anschutz can be a challenge, but I have figured it out.

I make a bedding block.

This was a Richard’s Microfit Stock and I made the stock a little smaller for rimfire.

This was originally a highpower F-Class stock the owner want it to fit his Swindlehurst Action.

This is one of the more fancy pieces of wood that I’ve worked on in some time. The different in colors in the wood are also different hardnesses. You have to pay attention when sanding on it, so that you don’t create divots.

The finished piece of wood is really beautiful.

It’s bedded with a bedding block. I did make a few extra few bedding blocks for Barnard.

The RAD System has a lot of size to it and is difficult to get an adjustable cheek piece to function properly. With a little tinkering and changing positions of parts, I was able to make it a fully adjustable cheekpiece.

The pistol grip cap is Thuya wood and Bloodheart.

This is chamber in a 6.5 x 47 Lapua cartridge.