Nikko 7000 Golden Eagle.

[STOMP442]

I had one of these rifles brought to me to accurize and set up for some mid range Coues deer hunting. I have been reading up a bit on these rifles and found that they are essentially a Weatherby with some slight modifications. This particular rifle, however, is going to need a new stock. It has been broke in half at the wrist and split up around the tang and below the trigger guard. Apparently the result of a quad accident some years ago. He had someone try and fix it as it has some pins and epoxy holding it back together but it doesn't look good and I doubt will shoot up to par. He claims the rifle shoots fine as is and has actually killed a few deer with it the last few years. I would like to get a new stock for it and get it fixed up as best as I can to shoot well out to about 600 yards or so. The rifle is in pretty good condition other than the stock is broke and that's really a shame as its a pretty nice piece of walnut. So my question is this, does anyone out there know if a standard Weatherby stock will fit this rifle? or if anyone actually makes a stock that I can buy. Boyds doesn't list anything for a Nikko and I can't seem to find anything online where anyone else has re-stocked one. The rifle is a long action chambered in .30-06. Thanks in advance for any help.

 

[Kurz]

or if anyone actually makes a stock that I can buy.

Richards Microfit lists your rifle as a 96% inlet using the link below. You can actually get some excellent high grade wood from them but it will be more expensive than the lower grades, obviously. The 96% means that it will require a gunsmith to do the final inletting, fitting and finishing. It will take them 8 weeks approximately to do the work on their end. All the information is on their website.

http://www.rifle-stocks.com/actions_available.htm

Regards.

 

[STOMP442]

Yeah, I seen that they offer an inlet for it. Inletting and finishing isn't a problem but I was really hoping for a simple drop in like a Boyds or a take off that was for sale someplace. My client is retired and on a fixed income with not a lot of money to drop into this project.

 

[JRS]

Try Numrich for the stock. Is it possible you have a receiver they manufactured for Winchester?

 

[STOMP442]

Looked there as well. No luck.

 

[STOMP442]

Not sure on that but it looks just like this.

 

[JRS]

I found some history on the Nikko Golden Eagle. Reading the history, it appears it is a commercial version of the Mauser 98 action. They entered into a contract with Winchester for a short time to produce rifles and shotguns for Winchester. They also produced shotguns for Weatherby, along with numerous other names.

BTW: The stock configuration was essentially a copy of the Weatherby design. I have a link that contains the history. A stock in-letted for the 98 might be a good fit.

 

[Redrover]

I found some history on the Nikko Golden Eagle. Reading the history, it appears it is a commercial version of the Mauser 98 action. They entered into a contract with Winchester for a short time to produce rifles and shotguns for Winchester. They also produced shotguns for Weatherby, along with numerous other names.

BTW: The stock configuration was essentially a copy of the Weatherby design. I have a link that contains the history. A stock in-letted for the 98 might be a good fit.

I found quite a lot of information on the Nikko 7000 Golden Eagle in two books I have in my possession – ‘The Bolt Action’ Volume II by Stuart Otteson, and ‘Bolt Action Rifles’ 3rd Edition by Frank de Haas.

Neither book makes any reference to the Nikko 7000 action ever being used for Weatherby rifles. From books that I have, plus my own recollections, Weatherby used M98 actions up to about 1960, when the Mark V action was introduced. A few years later came the Varmintmaster, which was like a scaled down Mark V action, with six locking lugs instead of nine. Then about 1970 came the Vanguard, which uses a slightly modified Howa 1500 action.

The Nikko 7000 action is quite unlike any of the above three actions, and equally unlike the Mauser 98. Fitting a Nikko 7000 into stocks made for any of these four actions would require extensive alterations such as cutting away wood and filling up gaps. If it could be done at all! (and the end result being decidedly ugly)

According to Otteson, the Nikko 7000 was in production from1976 to 1980, with a bit less than 25,000 rifles being produced. As far as I am aware, production of them has never resumed. The larger after-market stock makers would probably have little interest in making stocks for such an old and low volume model of rifle.

So, STOMP, I doubt that there is any cheap and easy solution to your customer’s problem.

 

[STOMP442]

Well, that is what I was afraid of. Thank you for the info.

 

[JRS]

If you can find a Winchester model 777 stock, the Golden Eagle action should drop in. Nikko produced the model 777 in 1979/80 as a look-alike with the Winchester name engraved on the action. You might also try contacting the Golden Eagle Collectors Association.

 

[JRS]

 

[STOMP442]

Awesome. Thanks for that I will start looking.

 

[JRS]

Awesome. Thanks for that I will start looking.

I edited my post above to include the Golden Eagle Collectors Association.