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Rojelio

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This is my Yugotine (Weaver77 coined that phrase). It's a 48 Yugo action and an Argentine barrel in 7.65x53.

 

I put up the Enfield 7 mag. for the year and figured I'd try to earhole a fat sow or a turkey with this rig before the season ends this weekend.

 

I like the way this one turned out and it shoots little bity groups, too.

 

Rojelio

 

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nice rig ...tell me about the stock

 

It's just a militaty stock that I reshaped and added a recoil pad and huisache forend tip to.

 

Huisache grows in south Texas and if you can find a big enough tree, it is a beautiful pink and yellow streaked wood. I have a large stump behind my shop that I've been carving on. It has a lot of wormholes in it, but, every once in a while, I find a chunk big enough to use for a forend tip.

 

Rojelio

 

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nice rig ...tell me about the stock

 

 

Second that! My only issue would be that the LOP would be too short for me using the milsurp stock.

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Second that! My only issue would be that the LOP would be too short for me using the milsurp stock.

 

The pad is 1 in. I ended up with 13 5/8 LOP which works OK for me with a heavy coat while hunting.

 

The only problem is it was 80 deg. sitting in the blind this evening. Didn't see any fat sows this evening only skinny ones with a bunch of little pigs on them so the Yugotine didn't get any blood on it today. Maybe tomorrow.

 

Rojelio

 

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The pad is 1 in. I ended up with 13 5/8 LOP which works OK for me with a heavy coat while hunting.

 

The only problem is it was 80 deg. sitting in the blind this evening. Didn't see any fat sows this evening only skinny ones with a bunch of little pigs on them so the Yugotine didn't get any blood on it today. Maybe tomorrow.

 

Rojelio

 

Sounds good unless, like me, you have gorilla arms. I like a LOP of 14.5"

 

Felt like 80 here today, can hardly call it winter.

 

Better luck tomorrow!

 

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I've always wanted to take a crack at working over a milsurp stock into a nice sporter. I think there is a lot of potential in those clunky pieces of wood that a patient wood sculptor could coax out.

 

Most milsurp stocks look like just that... milsurp. Rojelio, I think yours is the best sporterized treatment of a military stock that I have seen yet.

 

Did you put some wood plugs over the recoil bolt?

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that's a dandy little rifle there! i've always poo-poo'd sported military stocks, but that one you did there catches the eye! i had to go back and look again! i thought it a commercial stock! great work.

 

heath

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Felt like 80 here today, can hardly call it winter.

 

-55 here tonight.

That's 135 degrees cooler! Ya, it's winter. :(

 

Rojelio, nice rifle. (As I have come to expect from Texans!)

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I've always wanted to take a crack at working over a milsurp stock into a nice sporter. I think there is a lot of potential in those clunky pieces of wood that a patient wood sculptor could coax out.

 

Most milsurp stocks look like just that... milsurp. Rojelio, I think yours is the best sporterized treatment of a military stock that I have seen yet.

 

Did you put some wood plugs over the recoil bolt?

 

No, it's not that nice. I just made a shallow plunge cut on each side on the milling machine and filled it up with dyed acraglas gel then sanded smoothe with the rest of the stock just to hide the recoil bolt.

Matching huisache would have been nice, but, would have taken a lot more effort.

 

Rojelio

 

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Beautiful job on the stock and nicely configured with the sling arrangement, choice of scope and stepped mauser barrel. Interesting choice to go with the 7.65x53. Doesn't get a lot of press but is a very potent round.

 

Nels

 

I bought that barrel off of ebay when you still could and have been saving it for the right action.

 

I'm a big fan of the 7.65x53. It's my .308. I think it's very underrated.

 

Rojelio

 

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Cool rifle. Where did you find headspace gauges for the 7.65x53?

 

Clemson

 

Thanks everyone for the compliments. Clemson, I used new brass to set the headspace with. I didn't know headspace guages were available (Thanks for the heads up on the guages, Don).

 

I built another one (with a sported military stock) in 30-06 and now I'm building one in 8mm/06. That will probably be my last one (for a while).

 

I bought a lot of GAG's firewood stocks and some of them are pretty nice. I haven't used any yet so I don't know how good the inletting is.

 

Another Enfield will probably be next, but, it will be a while as I will be starting construction on a new shop since deer season is over.

 

Rojelio

 

PS Learning how to shape a military stock was a long evolution (20 years). You should have seen my first attempt. You would still be laughing.

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  • 3 months later...
JGS lists them. Neat project BTW I wish I didn't ger rid of all my argie barrels.

-Don

 

Don, where is JGS?

 

EDITED: I found them!

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