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lemski4

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  1. Here's my .35 Whelen Imp. I put together out of spare parts I had laying around the shop. I think I had about $320.00 in all of it, I got the action for $3.00 it was in very bad shape, all cosmetic. I worked up a load for it and it shoots about .620" groups@ 100 yards. It is one of my favorite rifles to hunt with.

     

     

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  2. I squared up the notch and beveled the edges and fit a piece of mild steel and tig welded it in place. The clean up on the inside took several hours, I tried to get some pictures of the inside but my Camera and the lighting couldn't seen to get anything to come out very good I'll work on it tho.

  3. To me I think they look like what a real cartridge should look like, fat with sharp distinct shoulders. In reality I work up A load until l I get the best group within the loading data I can find, or until I start getting excessive pressure signs. I don't in any means hot load any of my rifles, or try to get or match any published data. Powders have changed over the years, or at least the published data in the loading books have. So If I'm in dought I call one of the powder company's and ask one of their teck's about a load. As far as my 7-08 Imp. so far all I've shot through it so far is factory 7-08 off the shelf ammo. and have been getting 1/2 MOA groups fire forming with winchester 140 balistic silver tips. An Ackley Improved or most any version of the parent cartridge is not going to work wonders and S***T Spiders over the parent cartridge. You either love them or you don't. The most popular of the Ackley improved's is the 257 roberts, but it is not the most improvement in his experiments. The one that had the most improvement was the 25-35wcf followed by the 30-40 creg. But if you're still interested in loading data when I start working up a load I'll share it with you.

  4. I picked it up at a local guys wood working shop, that has a lot of unique kinds of wood scraps laying around. I like it too, hell until then I'd never seen it before, but after working with it I don't think I'd use it for a hole stock as it's a little on the soft side.

  5. Here is my latest build. It started out as a turkish mauser. It's fitted with a Douglas match barrel, chambered in 7mm-08 Imp., Gentry 3 position safety, timney trigger, mark X trigger guard, and a richard's microfit XXXstock. It's nothing ,Super fancy but it fills the bill, considering I got two White tails with it last year at about 400 yards+.

    It has a zebra wood fore end tip and grip cap Sorry I'm not a pro Picture taker.

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