Recent content by Riflecrank

Nyala23, I found this in an Alaskan gun shop over 20 years ago. No name/brand on it: This empty leather ammo carrier weighs only 1.5 oz. Same weight as the new "Ghost Ring" Ruger peep from NECG: 1.5 oz. Here is a home-made cowboy rig: Velcro fastening is nice. Beartooth makes a neoprene...

p.ham, No doubt your 6.8 Western is a beauty and capable of bughole accuracy. The cross-slots on your custom quarter rib make it even more capable, what with all the Picatinny-rail-fitting stuff so prevalent nowadays.

The legs on the tall bipod for the .500 A-Square are retracted in above photos. They extend to allow easy shooting from the sitting position. I do not shoot it from prone, nor do I have a tree at my back to steady me when I shoot it, heh-heh-heh. But really it is quite gentle compared to a 12ga...

This rig handle anything sensible. An old Four-Ring Circus Rig: A Three-Ring Circus: Or remove the peep and use a low-mounted scope of any reasonable power range, or a red-dot sight, etc. The favored hunting load of olde: Barnes 570-gr Smurf-X Shotgun ammo carrier works well for .500...

High scope mounting allows peep to remain on rifle with scope, and the Burris X-Tac high rings have a tunnel through them that aligns perfectly with peep. Make lemonade from lemons.

The buttstock ammo carrier and slip-on leather pad, dyed black, have become inseparable. Hitched for life.

A different gunsmith did this one in 1999. He sent his work to an engraver for marking, but I got hold of this one before he sent it off. Years later I got my local Gunsmith to stamp it. I asked him to get the "2" into exponential position. That was not unintentional on this one: So this one...

MauserDuff, Last time I aired my laundry on the .475 Linebaugh Ruger No. 1, I was told I needed a .500 Linebaugh Ruger No. 1 like was built by John Linebaugh as a companion for his faithful handgunner customers. Heh-heh-heh. I have already done too much with 50-bores to want any more of them...

The rifle is a Mighty Mite, 20" barrel, and close to 0.4"-long Slug Jump in the throat allows long COL loading, much like with the .458 WIN MAG. 400-grainers at 2000 fps. 500-grainers at 1700 fps. Home made cast bullets of +500 grains (FN GC Hardcast PC-Painted) from a mould designed for the 470...

Perfect fitment until the quarter rib loosened and a recoil tab on the bottom of the Warne QD lever ring at the front broke off. This one had only 4 screws holding it, not the usual solid steel studs and screws: Quickly back in action with OEM Ruger rings. The Alaska Arms LLC QD-Lever...

cash_tx, That is a beauty. Looks to me like both butt and forearm are custom. Wood matches. Ebony on tip of a rather full forearm and cheekpiece on butt are custom IMHO. Butt I am still learning. Perfect-for-the-rifle, life-time-warranteed, Leupold 1.5-5x20mm included for that price is nice...

Definitely stronger than the original, through-the-walnut-hole, OEM attachment. The scope and rings combo above weighs 1 # 3 oz. J-B Weld your quarter rib to barrel if you want to use a scope on your .458 WIN MAG/.458 WIN MAGA. I learned this from a .475 Linebaugh Ruger No. 1-S that...

Above is the forearm hanger screw that actually can become stripped and bent with so powerful a cartridge as the .458 WIN MAG loaded long (.458 WIN MAGA) to beat a SAAMI .458 Lott. Walnut buttstocks not properly glass-bedded may crack with such a powerful rifle. I elected to re-stock my .458 WIN...

Ruger No. 1 number 11: Ruger No. 1-H Tropical with 24" barrel length, 0.815" muzzle diameter, factory walnut 13-5/8" LOP: