That sounds like a bargain to me.  The No. 3 is a fine strong action and will make the basis of a dandy custom rifle.

Greg

entman --- how much would you be asking for that bbl.   ?  Ken

Ahhh well Tent man,   didn't think about you being out of the U.S.A.    Better just forget it but, many thanks for your generousity !  I have a #3 action being stocked by Greg Pennell (First Shirt) as a bench rifle --- they will make a fine action/rifle.  Brownells has two set triggers for the #3 action if you want a better trigger.   Ken

Tentman, one of the sweetest rifles out there recently based on the #3 action is the one Steve (buchsenmacher) Durren built for MI-Shooter.  If you ask real nice, maybe Steve will post a picture or two for you to get some ideas. 

Meanwhile, anything that can be done with the #1 can also be done with the #3, except where a tight pistol grip is concerned.  If you want a tight PG stock, you will have to alter the lever somewhat to give proper clearance and working room, but that just means that you get to do a special lever!   

HTH, Froggie

$300 sounds like a good deal to me too. I think the cheapest one I found was 375, and that was several years ago.

Mine is resting comfortably next to my keyboard. I figure I should get a couple other projects out of the way first. Almost ordered a barrel for it the other day, and then decided to wait a while on that too. I've got a line on a barrel mount scope that I may use with this, and the guy said he'd make a decision whether to sell it or not next month. I'm thinking about making the bases integral with the barrel and would like to have it in hand to see if that's practical or not. Not doing that would allow me to use a standard diameter blank rather than spending extra for a larger one.

TimK,  I don't know what the rifle will bring, but I would be interested in that particular model and caliber as I have hunted a bit with a sporterized Krag in the past.  How about dropping me a PM when you get a handle on asking price, please?

Regards,
Charlie the Frog

I have not figured out the posting of pictures but send me your email address and I can send a couple of jpegs of my rifle and action.

Ed

I hate to rain on your parade but it can cost a whole lot to ship a rifle from Australia ( And I assume NZ too) to the USA

I worked down under for some time and belonged to the local smallbore club. When I left they gave me my Club owned Gun , Anschutz M54 prone rifle.  My company paid all the expenses to ship my household home including the rifle. Our business is shipping and ran ships back and forth,  you would think I could have just put on one one of the weekly sailings.

No, You needed an export license from the Austrailan Army.  The exchange had to be OKed by the local police who certified I had an Austrailan shooters license and was the legal owner.  Normaly and the best method is to enlist the services of an export agent to handle the paperwork which I did.

Then it had to be shipped to a Licensed USA importer who had to enter it with Customs and certify it met all American regulations. I knew Neal Johnson the Anschutz importer who had already cetified that model and did the importation for me at no charge. There was some loophole that he worked on the rifle while in his possetion, all he did was look at the barrel and re-bed the stock. And he had to stamp the reciver with his companys name as importer of record. Then he had to ship it to my local dealer were I went through the normal records checks.

Our ship could not carry it as we did not normaly carry firearms and were not an approved carrier so we paid Air freight

The whole thing cost over 500 bucks, the same for one single shot .22 as if it had been a thousand rifles. Antiques are a little simpler but not much. Ony step you skip is the Army certification

There were some real bargins at local gun shops and shows.  Australia must have bought more Low walls than any other country. Many for sale in rough condition for under 100 US dollars. But it just did not pay to try to bring one home.

I recomend giving it up and buying a Ruger here.

Boats

Yes but that Ruger is not an antique.  Export from NZ may not be a problem but it can only be imported by a  Fed Licened importer.

You may be able to find one that will do it for you. I was lucky that the Anschutz importer used to be in our area and i knew him. Plus he does a lot of this for target shooters.