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The price of grain painting is pretty steep. As I recall, the price by one of the leading practitioners for grain matching a buttstock extension was around $800.00. That would go a long way toward just restocking with a better grade blank. And the fake grain painting is just a surface finish that can get scratched off on a hunting gun.
It is much better having wood higher than the surrounding metal rather than lower, so long as the inletting is sound, as noted by nitro450exp. I think it would look a just fine if it was simply re-profiled, and refinished with a nice alkanet stain and oil finish to make it look more its' age. And those cheeks look like they have enough extra material for you to practice doing drop points.
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Keith I was thinking the same on the extra material. I'll have to see about the grain painting once I check out the stock. I'm not a fan of blond wood. I'd be satisfied if I could get it looking like a nice dark walnut.
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Mike,
Maybe you can see something with the rifle "in hand", that I can't see in the photo. It is common, if sufficient care is not taken, for lines to be altered in refinishing, but not additional wood.
Mike
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Lovely rifle....gotta love those Damascus barrels!!!
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Love the wide rib and the damascus pattern. Looks like a ton of fun.
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forgot to add that it weights 9.2lbs and has 28" barrels
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Metford rifling. I slugged the bore today .508. Anyone know of any cast bullets around the 340 grain weight? Can find .510 in 300 grain but can't find anything in 340grain.
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That's going to be great fun.
I, too, would be interested in where paper-patch bullet moulds in appropriate weights can be had for the .500#2BPE.
Currently I'm running nitro for black with 460gr PP bullets, but the BP loads were very much lighter, and the NFB could stand being a touch lighter too, more like 440gr.
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I know how to check twist rate for normal rifling but when I use the same method for the metford I can tell that I'm getting skips where it's just going straight down the barrel. Anyone have a good method for getting twist rate with Metford rifling?
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