Top - 20 Raven (Rimmed blown Var Tarq)

Middle - 17 Ackley Bee

Bottom - 218 Bee

    I LOVE MARTINIS. I'M ALSO A LITTLE CRAZY WITH MANY PERSONALIY QUIRKS. 


           REGARDS,BEN.

Very nice indeed!

Just what I need to boot my butt and start working on my Cadet. Got the wood cut out and the buttstock fitted but not carved yet. Gotta re-line the barrel too. Just too many dang other projects keep pushing this one aside

Thanks for the motivation!

Regards,

Darryl

Dondford,

Beautiful stock work!   

The thin little cadet action makes it difficult to get a fore stock other than a splinter and have nice lines.  You rifles show that it's possible to have a heavier fore stock and not  look an old bridge timber was used.

Beautiful!!!

Nice work, like the fore stock escutucheon

Here is another idea for you on the lever end.

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I very much like the looks and idea behind your 35/30-30 but I think you are living dangerously and hope the sction holds together and agree with the Colonel that the 12/15 BSA action is the one to go for, having much thicker sidewalls as well as not being cast but machined.
I am having a 7mm Walters built at the moment on a 12/15 and when its built will post a photo showing how the gunsmith has shaved off some of the thickness on the sides of the action and trigger guard to reduce weight as I find that for some reason or other, rifles seam much heavier the older I get and I want something that I can carry all day.
Where did you and Doubled get your Tang sights from?
Also I just knew there must be a reason why my old Dad said, when you load a rifle it must always be pointed in a safe direction as when I loaded my latest 222 BSA Martini after firing about a dozen rounds through it at the range to sight in the scope and I closed the breach the rifle fired because the firing pin fractured where the slot is cut
in it. I had checked, cleaned and polished it and the gunsmith had checked it as well and nothing was obvious. I wonder if crack testing it would have shown anything up or was it just old age and it let go. anybody else had this happen.
Regards, Nero.

check out this cat,is that a martini?

Yes slip of the finger there it should of course have said Waters.
To the best of my knowledge and I am not a gun smith or in any metal trade, the BSA frames are machined and Greener and Westley Richards that I have owned had cast frames and seemed to be a funny old metal when I have drilled a hole in the rear of the action so as to clean from the breach. My reply must have sounded odd when I said I am using a thick wall but shaving the sides off.In fact only a little is coming off to stop it looking too slab sided and nothing from the middle part only a little from the top and bottom of the sides. Bit of a job to explain in writing, more of a cosmetic job than anything else. Just taking advice in using a 12/15 action.
When I lightened, polished and crack tested the con rod on my 350cc pre-war Velocette race bike I was advised to get it shot peened as well to relieve stress. Thats been ok for the last fifteen years and I was wondering if the same could apply to my broken firing pin that I had  polished up.
Regards, Nero.