Love the looks is that a single screw forearm?

Damn nice set up---------smilllllin

Thanks, all. I wasn't fond of an 'old' CPA from the mid-90's that I once owned, but the couple recent ones I've shot in past few years were much nicer. Without having fired this rifle, I like feel & balance well enough that I contacted today Gail and ordered a 24" Shilen rachet-rifled 22LR barrel in the same half-round contour as this 38cal barrel.

And, yes, single-screw forearm.

Added a pic of the action in the 1st post after having case-colored.

Who did the very nice case colors?

Bill Lawrence

TomKlinger wrote on Feb 3^rd, 2020 at 8:18pm:


Indeed........... blame Tom. He did it. To see some of his other work look at my Hepburns in another one of the rifle photos thread. 

Tom also did the case-color on all my Hepburns in this thread: (You need to Login or Register to view media files and links)

Thx. 
Had a beautiful, almost windless morning today. Got to the range about 7:15 (was 21F per the car) and was sighting-in at 50yd, then 100yd shortly there after. The outside edge of my wet patches (water-based cutting oil) were just frozen and took a bit of effort to separate each one.
By the time I moved over to the 200yd bench it was up to 40F on its way to 57F and still almost no breeze. Had two 5-shot groups <1moa and eliminated CCI LP primers as a possible source of ignition, so that was good. 
Managed 73-shots in 3.5hr and can say for sure that is a tiring amount of shooting with a case full of 2F Swiss & 333gr & 365gr bullets. Good thing that matches are generally fewer shots and over a considerably longer period of time. 

The rifle operated perfectly and the Shilen barrel is nice & 'slick' and cleaned up with little effort. Think it will be a good one.

Dang........... wish I had thought to take a pic of the rifle sitting in the rests at the bench. Was a beautiful day to take an out-door pic of a nice rifle.