As the title says - it's another one of my builds, a few may remember pictures of this a few years back.  I started it back in 2020, another striker I built, the action is a Storie casting, the breech block is one of my designs.  The first one is a 22rf wearing a modified Schoyen stock design, this one is wearing a stock design I came up with and I like it so well there's three more wearing this design.  They may see completion in the next year or so...
For the past 3 years, it looked good - from 12' away - and I've shot it this way.  Last Monday it moved from the rear of the safe out to the bench.  Some late evenings and the stock got a make-over and the action saw a little polishing.  The first batch of photos are from the past, as they progress there's been a few changes.   If the phone remains quiet and I find the ambition it may truly match the latter part of my title and look good from 18".

Here's where it lie as of tonight.  The stock got a coat of finish and a little assembly to see what the contrast is going to look like.  Hopefully, I can blue some of the little pieces and brown the barrel some tomorrow.

Looking good, Greg. I must confess I opened this thread with some trepidation. Thinking as I clicked on it, "What gun and what range is he shooting to get that lousy of groups?" 
Dennis

Some folks have all the skill...




JMH

Great looking Ballard Greg! I like the buttplate also! Looks like the old #6 Schuetzen German style, but without the pick knob at the top.
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Thanks all.

The buttplate is a cast copy of the German Schuetzen plate, I ground off the inside of the toe area so it would fit my stock. 
Vall they do normally have the pick, I didn't have a need for the pick but I thought about putting a small screwdriver in it instead...

John,
Some disciplines the striker is taboo, don't care, so are the hooked buttplates, same-same.  In the matches I put on and majority I shoot in they'll work just fine.

Dennis, I figured the post title would stimulate some thought. 
Just before I pulled it apart I shot up some of the ammo left over, it didn't do bad, not a 12' group, not even an 18" group - definitely refers to its looks.   One group from the past...  It has some potential and I've made a few changes in its design and the loading repertoire so I'm anxious to get it back together.  Hopefully run it in a match this coming weekend.

Greg,
The "pick" that goes in the top prong on a Ballard #6 Schuetzen isn't actually a pick as in muzzleloader rifles. Instead it's simply threaded as a wood screw to attach the buttplate to the stock, so it uses just one other screw in the lower buttplate.
Seems Marlin was just going for a look, and not trying to make it functional.

The blues really popped on your CC action and metal. I didn't know you were doing case colors too. The rough wood in the first few pictures hid the figure. That wood is a wow!  I hope you finish it up in time for a spring match here. I would like to see it.