7x57 Oberndorf style build

[welshwarrior]

Horrible to visit too.
I have been to three of them, Belsen twice once alone and once with my older sister, Auschwitz twice the original camp plus then the Birkenau addition and the Flossenberg granite quarry once. Living in mid Europe I felt it was what you had to do.
My gamekeepers son is now a full time organizer of tour groups at one but I don't know which one though as he came from Saarlouis.

I couldn’t get over the fact birds did even seem to fly over Belsen. Horrible places but as you say I felt I had to visit.

 

[harrygrey382]

Fantastic work and looking great.
Re the symbols I once held a Mauser which had the markings which I was told
designated it’s use in a Concentration Camp. Horrible to hold.

Thanks - but yeah used in a concentration camp would be pretty heavy

 

[Foxyboy43]

Horrible to visit too.
I have been to three of them, Belsen twice once alone and once with my older sister, Auschwitz twice the original camp plus then the Birkenau addition and the Flossenberg granite quarry once. Living in mid Europe I felt it was what you had to do.
My gamekeepers son is now a full time organizer of tour groups at one but I don't know which one though as he came from Saarlouis.

Indeed - I visited Sachsenhausen outside Berlin some years ago - most sombre day in my long life. Terrible what harm man can do to man, women and children….

 

[Tikka 260]

Off topic comment : My son remarked to me when walking back to the main gate at Birkenau from the crematoria memorial that there were no birds overhead, and no signs of life amid all the grass growing between the hut remains. Perhaps that was only on the day we were there, but maybe not. A truly dreadful place which should remain as a warning to future generations.

 

[Foxyboy43]

Off topic comment : My son remarked to me when walking back to the main gate at Birkenau from the crematoria memorial that there were no birds overhead, and no signs of life amid all the grass growing between the hut remains. Perhaps that was only on the day we were there, but maybe not. A truly dreadful place which should remain as a warning to future generations.

Precisely our experience at Sachsenhausen - conifer trees close by on either side with corvids aplenty but inside the walls of that hellhole not a single bird of any description. It was Lady FB who remarked on it first, in between the tears…

 

[harrygrey382]

Bluing finished. The ammonium chloride has given a really rich blue/black - I love it. Although the chrome moly barrel took many cycles to get an even finish. I scrapped the steaming, it was leaving streaks. Made a bluing tank from a steel fence strainer to span two burners on the kitchen hob, worked nicely.

Well, it’s taken me four years - but I think I’m done. Good thing I’m stubborn... But I’m really happy with the result. It may not be an original Type B, but it’s close enough for me.

Better anneal some of my used RWS brass so I can go hunting now…

 

[Stalker62]

@harrygrey382

Well played.

I can barely clean my rifles, let alone build one...

 

[welshwarrior]

Looks really nice well done.

 

[Foxyboy43]

Lovely job sir!

 

[takbok]

Beautiful job! Enjoy

 

[harrygrey382]

Thanks guys

 

[alberta boy]

A beautiful and classic rifle brother , well worth the effort .

AB

 

[HandB]

Congratulations - an elegant and beautiful tribute to the original items.

 

[Keith Edmunds]

Looks fantastic.......time to Christen.

 

[angusb1]

I've been following your progress on this for a few years and it's lovely to see it finished. What a beautiful rifle! I bet you can't wait to get out and use it. Thanks very much, it's been fascinating.

 

[Heym SR20]

Thats a really nice little rifle. But and its a very big but, its only got funny little bits of metal on the barrel. You won’t be able to hit a barn door with those, let alone any deer sized animals. God alone knows how our forefathers ever managed.

What it needs is a picatinny rail with a mahosive digital scope with a screen the size of an ipad so you can play all the computer games whilst you wait for deer to appear.

As for cartridge. 7x57 - not sooo last century, but really its so last century before last. Its an utterly useless cartridge. It really needs to be in 6.5 needmore.

And whats that funny carbon tubed stock??? It should really have a black woven finish, none of this carbon tubed bound by cellulose type rubbish that grows on trees.

As for bluing - needs cerakoting at very least.

And how do you fit a bipod.

Please post it over to Scotland and I will look after it for you - I have like an oap home for fine sporting guns

 

[harrygrey382]

Thanks for the kind words guys, I have to admit I keep going to the safe just to admire the result…

Heym SR20 - too funny! There probably would be few it wouldn’t appeal to, but this is the kind of rifle I get most satisfaction hunting with.

Christening to come

 

[moeggesit]

Very nicely done

 

[bullet chucker]

Brilliant WELL' done.

BC.

 

[harrygrey382]

Went out after some goats this arv, got these three. First was offhand at 30m, the other two off a log at 80m. Also shot a roo at 140m. Needless to say the 154gr RN did the job efficiently. Loving the double set triggers