I’ve been told by a couple of my associates that they thought this rifle is the best one I’ve ever done (& they both offered to buy it too!). Maybe they are right.
    The idea of doing a Rem.- Hep. Schuetzen must have first occurred to me around 1980 but didn’t get it completed until circa 2003-5 . Accumulating all the components was a slow process! I first laid back a nice clean D.S. Trigger Action w/about 75% faded orig. case colors which is my preference! By 1990 I had mocked up a “pattern” buttstock to be duplicated when I found the right stock blank. After a few more years searching I finally settled on this wood. It was a medium grade of very old Bastogne walnut that had what I wanted in the grain layout that looked like it was grown w/a Rem.-Hep. in mind!
    Next the decision was made for a .22 l.r. When I found a sound orig. (but shot out bore) Rem. Bbl.28” full oct. that would host the liner that I turned down from a 28”+Czech CZ pull-off bbl., that w/a match chamber that was then fitted up to my action.
     I nearly required a blood transfusion after finding and purchasing a never used Lyman No 47 windage adjustable tang sight w/a Rem. base, which was the “right” sight for this rifle.
     The woodwork all went well, w/the inletting probably the best I ever achieved & the checkering by Doug Mann complimented this one nicely too. 
     High Praise? I’ve yet to bring this rifle out to a match where @ least one guy who had never seen it before didn’t find a quiet moment to corner me & ask me if it might be for sale!
     How does it shoot? Well if I can shoot .040 groups @ 50’ off the bench shouldn’t I be able to interpolate that to 5 shot 1/4” groups @ 100 yds. ? Some one explain that to me. After all we know it can’t be me.

The stockwork on this rifle is exceptional. I especially like the quarter moon panels in front of the action and the elongated half moon panels behind the action. Doug Mann's checkering completes the stocks. I like that you can clearly see the mineral lines of the wood through the checkering.

Very Nice

hairtrigger wrote on Feb 7^th, 2022 at 6:10pm:


The first thing that comes to mind is that the bullet is exposed to more variables such as condition/wind changes.   

For those who might not know Dennis is an Icon when it comes to single shots rifles.