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Re: Hepburn
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jy3855 wrote
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SSShooter,
Wow, your friend has his CC dialed in to exactly how I like case colors - blues, greys, and tan. Beautiful work, congrats to you for beautiful parts, and to your friend for such nice work.
I eagerly look forward to seeing the finished product.
I agree! A fair number of professionals have trouble getting all the colors your friend is getting! He must be doing it right and figured it out!
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Re: Hepburn
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He sure is. I've told him he should stop being a production manager and become a full-time starving gunsmith.
He said he would be case-coloring the receiver next week. I'll pass along your responses.
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Re: Hepburn
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OK........... here's Hepburn #3 (3rd CF Hepburn for me). Now wearing a new 30" half-round GM 38cal 'X' barrel with 12" twist and chambered in 38-50, all put together by Steve Durren. Also, the original 28" full-octagon original barrel was lined back to 32-40 (how it started life some 125yr ago) from the 22 Lovell someone had changed it over to. Steve fitted the wood (maple), which is off to be checkered tomorrow. Once I become so static that I want to shoot from the bench just need to swap out barrels, put on the original wood and develop loads.
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Re: Hepburn
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Hepburn #2 is back in the fold with a new 32.375" long gain-twist (16.5+ to 11") Bartlein barrel chambered in 38-50. While not shown, also have a 35-40 barrel for this rifle. Has an original copy windage front sight, so should be good for iron-sight matches with the long barrel. From the bench at 200yd and a 6X scope it shot the sub-1moa groups (I made no allowance for the wind) with 2F Swiss using loads I shot last year in a different rifle, so there is hope that it will be a "shooter". Hope to have the wood back from being checkered for Hepburn #2 before to much longer.
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Re: Hepburn
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Just got the wood back from being checker.ed It is going to have to live with a couple of coats of oil to keep the moisture out until it is warm enough to put some stain on outside. Looks like it will have some good figure. Will be going with Laurel Mtn Forge's Nut Brown stain.
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Re: Hepburn
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WOW!!!
Very Nice!
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Re: Hepburn
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Glen, Beautiful wood and checkering, but have a question.
Always thought wood was checkered after finishing.
Maybe Maple is different.
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Re: Hepburn
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Thanks.......... turned out to be a pretty good piece of wood for $200.
I'm anything but an expert on finishing wood. I know that the 4-sets of wood I've had checkered have always been finished after checkering. Since one is cutting the wood when checkering, makes sense to me that it has to finished after the work is complete. However, I could certainly be wrong and will defer to anyone who knows.
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Re: Hepburn
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Had a guy from Missouri insist I checker his shotgun before the finish went on. Last time I ever did that.
Finish first then checker.
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Re: Hepburn
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Checkering first means the finish will build up in the checkering. Every stock maker or checkerer I ever used told me to finish the wood first, and then checker. Then apply thin coat of finish over checkering to seal it.
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Re: Hepburn
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Picture of the cheekpiece side. Rifle weighs 10#7oz without sights. 30" long, half-round, #3 1/2 GM 12" twist barrel. Will be interesting to compare tomorrow to the gain-twist barrel to see if a difference in recoil is noticeable. Will be using the same ammo in both rifles.
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Re: Hepburn
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Mar 15
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I just read this front to back. Fun!
Hepburns make me happy! They are near the top of the list.
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Re: Hepburn
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Yep. Hepburns make me happy, as well. Especially with that side lever when shooting prone. Think Remington (rolling block & Hepburn) had it right for prone shooting.
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