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Grand slam Senior Forum Member Online Posts: 309 Location: Mountains of E. Tennessee Joined: Jun 7^th, 2015	Re: Building a Winchester/Winder .22 match rifle Reply #45 - Mar 1^st, 2024 at 11:04pm	Print Post
	Wow! More work than I thought it would be, but I’m happy with it…


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bobw Frequent Elocutionist Offline Posts: 1300 Location: NW, Iowa Joined: Mar 19^th, 2013	Re: Building a Winchester/Winder .22 match rifle Reply #46 - Mar 2^nd, 2024 at 11:54am	Print Post
	Nicely done Richard, don’t think anyone could do this any better! You must be making your own screws? Bob

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LRF Oldtimer Offline Posts: 540 Location: MN Joined: May 8^th, 2010	Re: Building a Winchester/Winder .22 match rifle Reply #47 - Mar 2^nd, 2024 at 3:20pm	Print Post
	Today is first time I saw this thread, most excellent work. Way above my pay grade. Nice!


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watchthewind Oldtimer Offline Posts: 903 Location: Phoenix, AZ Joined: Mar 10^th, 2015	Re: Building a Winchester/Winder .22 match rifle Reply #48 - Mar 2^nd, 2024 at 11:22pm	Print Post
	Richard I have been enjoying watching this thread. I really hope you will consider writing an article for the ASSRA Journal. I'm looking forward to seeing the finished product and accuracy testing Scott

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Grand slam Senior Forum Member Online Posts: 309 Location: Mountains of E. Tennessee Joined: Jun 7^th, 2015	Re: Building a Winchester/Winder .22 match rifle Reply #49 - Mar 6^th, 2024 at 11:42pm	Print Post
	Bob, I made the screws since I did not have an 8-24 tap for the screws that came with the skeleton grip cap. The grip cap came from Sunny Hills Enterprises and if you ask (I didn’t) he will enclose a 8-24 tap. I used a 8-32 thread. Thanks LRF. Scott, I’m glad the thread has interested you, thank you. I’d need a ghost writer as my English and grammar is terrible lol. A few more photos, I’m still refining the grip and comb area as these photos will show, I’m trying to employ a British stock design


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Grand slam Senior Forum Member Online Posts: 309 Location: Mountains of E. Tennessee Joined: Jun 7^th, 2015	Re: Building a Winchester/Winder .22 match rifle Reply #50 - Mar 6^th, 2024 at 11:43pm	Print Post
	And a couple more…


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Crown-C Senior Forum Member Offline Posts: 441 Location: St. Marys Kansas Joined: Apr 6^th, 2009	Re: Building a Winchester/Winder .22 match rifle Reply #51 - Mar 7^th, 2024 at 8:35am	Print Post
	Very, very well done Richard! Getting the curve just right on the backside of the pistol grip is tedious carving and sanding.

	Richard Crown-C Ranch in the Flinthills NRA Life Member ASSRA Member # 10366 Member & Founders Society, Cody Firearms Museum Veteran
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bobw Frequent Elocutionist Offline Posts: 1300 Location: NW, Iowa Joined: Mar 19^th, 2013	Re: Building a Winchester/Winder .22 match rifle Reply #52 - Mar 7^th, 2024 at 12:08pm	Print Post
	I agree with Richard (Crown-C), the back of a pistol grip is tough to get shaped. Yours is done very well. I see many that are just kind of thrown into the shaping, as just straight lines, or curving as if not going anywhere. Yours are flowing from the forward portion as if an extension of that top line and a very slight widening of the grip as it reaches the bottom. Your comment on the tap for the grip cap screws bring up another question. You are apparently tapping the wood for the screws? Bob

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Grand slam Senior Forum Member Online Posts: 309 Location: Mountains of E. Tennessee Joined: Jun 7^th, 2015	Re: Building a Winchester/Winder .22 match rifle Reply #53 - Mar 7^th, 2024 at 2:06pm	Print Post
	Richard, thank you! Yes it is a bit tedious, the good part though is I can do a lot of the work sitting down which is easy on my back. Bob, thank you! I’m a fan of your work, you have a good eye for detail and you can carry that out too on your work. After I drill the holes and before tapping I use thin CA glue in the holes to toughen the threads. I’m not satisfied with the nose of the comb. I want to thin that area and make a more graceful curve , sort of like an Alexander Henry treatment of that area. Then a overall refinement of the complete stock. Slow going and not much wood remaining to fix a slip up.


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wesg Full Member Offline Posts: 241 Joined: Sep 13^th, 2004	Re: Building a Winchester/Winder .22 match rifle Reply #54 - Mar 7^th, 2024 at 2:23pm	Print Post
	Ummm ... I think I'm gonna have to stick to CNC projects. Awesome. Just ... awesome. I wish ... or can only dream, of ever having the skills for something like this. Not just the actual work ... by hand... which I'm pretty much losing as I get older (only 65 next month) ... 'The Shakes' ... but the Artistry ... I do have a Winder, in pretty nice shape. But there's a Ruger I've been playing with off and on... mostly off ... that's going to need wood ... Maybe I can recruit one of y'all at some point ...


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Grand slam Senior Forum Member Online Posts: 309 Location: Mountains of E. Tennessee Joined: Jun 7^th, 2015	Re: Building a Winchester/Winder .22 match rifle Reply #55 - Mar 7^th, 2024 at 10:03pm	Print Post
	Wesg, I’m 85 so you have 20 years to catch up… I’m thinning the edges of the heel and toe plate so there a bit thinner and they match each other…


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Skalkaho Oldtimer Offline Posts: 727 Location: Montana Joined: Sep 29^th, 2006	Re: Building a Winchester/Winder .22 match rifle Reply #56 - Mar 8^th, 2024 at 9:53am	Print Post
	Looking REAL good !

	May the Bullet Gods be with you.......
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Grand slam Senior Forum Member Online Posts: 309 Location: Mountains of E. Tennessee Joined: Jun 7^th, 2015	Re: Building a Winchester/Winder .22 match rifle Reply #57 - Mar 8^th, 2024 at 8:50pm	Print Post
	Spent part of the day massaging the heel and toe plate with both file and sandpaper. You need to be careful when your blending steel into wood or vice versa as the difference in density of the steel and wood is so great that it is easy to wind up with a divot in the wood that will ruin the smooth transition from wood to steel. It’s not a place to rush. The shaping is done and only taken to a 320 grit finish, the final finish will be 600 or 800 grit and the parts rust lued or Case colored. Thanks for visiting Cheers Richard


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marlinguy Frequent Elocutionist Offline Ballards may be weaker, but they sure are neater! Posts: 15735 Location: Oregon Joined: Feb 2^nd, 2009	Re: Building a Winchester/Winder .22 match rifle Reply #58 - Mar 9^th, 2024 at 9:32am	Print Post
	Beautiful! Will the wood get checkering, or left smooth?

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Grand slam Senior Forum Member Online Posts: 309 Location: Mountains of E. Tennessee Joined: Jun 7^th, 2015	Re: Building a Winchester/Winder .22 match rifle Reply #59 - Mar 9^th, 2024 at 10:39am	Print Post
	Thanks Marlinguy. The grip section will but have not decided on the butt and grip cap area. Cheers Richard


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