Antique and Military Rifles Pic thread

[travellightfreezeatnight]

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SMLE
M1 Garand
1903-A3
1898 Krag

All shooters!

[rojocorsa]

My No.4 had some varnish and stain beforehand, (so someone already touched the stock). All I did was remove this prior finish back to its natural state.


The upper handguards are walnut, and the stock is beech. Now they got a natural tone and feel to them. We sanded down the rough scratches (there were some going against the grain! , and this also took out the nasty plasticky feel the wood had).

After sanding to an ultra-fine texture, I went over the wood with seven coats of BLO. It feels good now.














The wood will darken over time. At first I wasnt too sure whether I was going to dig the two tone look, but it's not bothering me and the wood feels nice and clean.



(Devil is in the details here).

[rojocorsa]

Here is some pics of other rifles...













I was just having some fun with these guns and the camera.

[Deputy Dan]

A few from the stable:

[MAUSER202]

Here are two of mine.

[rojocorsa]

Is that an all #s matching Mauser?

[Hop]

I can play this game...



I took all these to a D-day shoot a while back.

[MAUSER202]

Is that an all #s matching Mauser?

Not all matching, the metal is the stock is a post war yugo.

[daddyusmaximus]

I lucked into a Mauser yesterday/last week.

Not a bad deal for buying my father-in-law a $170 shotgun.

[farquward]

This was my first hunting rifle, sporterized by my grandad. Last year I restored it to mil spec with SC parts and a C stock. I left the civilian sights on, it shoots very well with them.

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This is the work done by grandad, he cut down the original stock and did the checkering.