Anschutz Project

[DR1586]

i picked up an Anschutz 54 from a great fella here on the forum. It came with an extra rough duplicated stock. The stock was kind of similar to the old Anschutz prone stock, but had a really high comb and was larger in overall size. Snice I have two young kids and a busy job, I needed s long term project (like I needed another whole in my head). But I wanted a good smallbore gun that resembled my prone rifles. So I did the following....

Reshape the stock
Cut the butt and fore end to length
Final inletting on action, barrel channel and hand stop rail
Installed pillars and glass bedded it
Shaped the cheek piece to my face
Cut the comb off and installed McMillan hardware

All the inletting and shaping was done with hand tools. Used my buddy's woodworking shop to build a fixture to cut the butt, fore end and cheek piece. FYI, you can use a table saw to create and adjustable cheek piece. You just gotta go slow.

After all the work, the rifle has proven to be a shooter.

 

[DR1586]

More pictures

 

[andrewsben]

very nice. every since i got my first 64 recently I have been contemplating doing the same thing with an old 54.

 

[DR1586]

Thanks Andrew. The rifles are out there. Just keep looking.

 

[Urv]

i picked up an Anschutz 54 from a great fella here on the forum. It came with an extra rough duplicated stock. The stock was kind of similar to the old Anschutz prone stock, but had a really high comb and was larger in overall size. Snice I have two young kids and a busy job, I needed s long term project (like I needed another whole in my head). But I wanted a good smallbore gun that resembled my prone rifles. So I did the following....

Reshape the stock
Cut the butt and fore end to length
Final inletting on action, barrel channel and hand stop rail
Installed pillars and glass bedded it
Shaped the cheek piece to my face
Cut the comb off and installed McMillan hardware

All the inletting and shaping was done with hand tools. Used my buddy's woodworking shop to build a fixture to cut the butt, fore end and cheek piece. FYI, you can use a table saw to create and adjustable cheek piece. You just gotta go slow.

After all the work, the rifle has proven to be a shooter.

 

[Urv]

looks very nice something you and your children can be proud of you done for them

 

[flatlander]

Looks great! I'm sure you'll enjoy that rifle very much.

I was looking for a smallbore trainer to help me polish my prone position several years ago. Bought a couple of the surplus smallbore trainers from CMP - Rem 540X, H&R M12 - but their stocks were nowhere near the shape of the Robertson H&H stocks I had on my Palma & any/any prone rifles. I'd considered getting one of the Culbertson prone stocks from Richards Microfit for the M12, but felt my woodworking skills & time to devote to it were lacking. Then one of my prone mentors suggested I call Mac Tilton & talk with him about trading the M12 for an Anschutz prone rifle - his reasoning proved sound, as the 1411 Mac picked out for me turned out to be an excellent rifle. And to top it off, I believe Ian Robertson modeled his H&H prone stocks off the Anschutz like my 1411 came with. I get a lot of good out of practicing with the 1411 at 100yds with irons - seems to me that the lack of recoil doesn't mask any mistakes I make, and shooting irons with it gives my eyes the exercise they need before heading for a mid or long range prone match. Never regretted making that trade with Mac - the $435 difference I paid him for the 1411 was certainly some of the best money I've spent in all the years I've been shooting.