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Love my Pre-CZ Dan Wessons.
A close second would be my early Fusion guns.
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A close second would be my early Fusion guns.
This is Win M-70 Classic switch barrel that can be taken down by hand without a vice and put back together by hand and will hold .50 inches. That was the actual test, to take it down switch barrels, shoot, Then take it down again, switch barrels and shoot .50 inches with each of two barrel with at least .500 inch groups. It is a 338 Win Mag / 7mm Rem Mag. Two barrel matching Japan scopes w tactical QC Warne bases and two sets of QC scope rings that return to zero when switched..
The barrel keeper, of my design, is a coil spring loaded tapered hardened plunger with a slotted keeper in the recoil lug, that fits into a tapered hole in the threads., and a spanner wrench with welded plug for the barrel hole which is visible in the upper barrel. Action is glass bedded with barrels free floated. Short barrel is the 338, long barrel is the 7mm. Fits into a double rifle case. The barrels and scopes can be switched sitting on a bed in a hotel room. I built it in my shop, to prove to myself that I could.
The barrel keeper, of my design, is a coil spring loaded tapered hardened plunger with a slotted keeper in the recoil lug, that fits into a tapered hole in the threads., and a spanner wrench with welded plug for the barrel hole which is visible in the upper barrel. Action is glass bedded with barrels free floated. Short barrel is the 338, long barrel is the 7mm. Fits into a double rifle case. The barrels and scopes can be switched sitting on a bed in a hotel room. I built it in my shop, to prove to myself that I could.
This is the first gun that could not be built, according to six different smiths, so I built two 357 Super Mag Martini Cadets. This is the first, the Big Leaf Maple stock version, the other is the walnut stock version. They make a thump with 200s or 180s out of a rifle with 296. Both have bushing and reduced diameter firing pins with new springs. The 180 grain spire points do over 2,500 fps.
Shot a deer with the top Cadet. Deer hit the ground and kicked once. Did not recover the bullet, the 357 SMs are impressive in a rifle.
Shot a deer with the top Cadet. Deer hit the ground and kicked once. Did not recover the bullet, the 357 SMs are impressive in a rifle.
30-40 Krag build by Mel Johnson, after his retirement from the USMC. He opened a gun shop in Rhode Island.
From Mel's son, Ed Johnson:
Very nice photos. It would appear that this would have been a conversion of a Springfield Armory 30/40 Krag action with Springfield rear sight plus new custom stock with pad plus tapered barrel....I think you said 30:06?.....and blued components with new front sight...maybe Lyman?
It would have probably been a custoer's rifle conversion, done by my Dad's factory and not the subsequent "associates" group. Not sure of value but it would be pretty rare....call it perhaps a "one of a kind."
From Mel's son, Ed Johnson:
Very nice photos. It would appear that this would have been a conversion of a Springfield Armory 30/40 Krag action with Springfield rear sight plus new custom stock with pad plus tapered barrel....I think you said 30:06?.....and blued components with new front sight...maybe Lyman?
It would have probably been a custoer's rifle conversion, done by my Dad's factory and not the subsequent "associates" group. Not sure of value but it would be pretty rare....call it perhaps a "one of a kind."
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