Enough Politics! Build my Custom Rifle

Wildalaska · September 14, 2005, 12:46 PM

Heres the parameters...its so far a Husqvarna 1600 action with a Dakota Contoured #1 barrel, 24 inches. It is chambered (of course) for 6.5x55. its gonna be CerraKoted and will ride in a High tech synthetic stock.

The rest is still being decided...cost is no object

1. Use a Timney with side safety, or do a three position and fill the safety slot in the receiver with a milled plug?

2. Checker bolt handle two panel offset or three panel?

3. Barrel band sling swivel, or soldered on german stud...or none at all?

4. Barrel band front sight or simple williams or NECG H&H style or......
5. Express rear, quarter rib, dakota style sight, NECG adjustable?
6. No rear sight at all..use auxiliary peep
6. Engraving....just the floorplate or go nuts (Im friends with a Guild Engraver)

No hurry to do, this is for bext year.....

WildhepmeAlaska

Gewehr98 · September 14, 2005, 01:05 PM

Canjar, perhaps even a single-set model. Your choice of safety.

Express sights on a quarter-rib with fold-up leaves for different ranges. Although your 6.5x55 is a bit flatter shooting than the old Nitros that used those sights earlier.

Nitre or rust blueing. I'm gonna plum brown my own express rifle project, but that may be over the top for some folks.

Floorplate release lever?

Eghad · September 14, 2005, 01:37 PM

Timney

Im not a big fan of band swivels on a barrel nor any other thing on a barrel..

but I could be talked into the german soldered one

checkered bolt handle...three panels

engraved floorplate ...and reciever

barrel band front sight with the rear express sights

Jart · September 14, 2005, 05:13 PM

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Canjar, perhaps even a single-set model.

My day is made. I thought those guys were out of business. I had one back in a different lifetime.

OK, Wildness. Put me in for the single set Canjar.

Ben Swenson · September 14, 2005, 05:27 PM

I vote against mounting a sling swivel on any sort of barrel band.

Tell us more about the stock you've got picked out.

Wildalaska · September 14, 2005, 05:42 PM

Standard Hi tech synthetic stock (which we believe is the ne plus ultra of sythetic stocks)..they are made by Bansners Ultimate rifles (http://www.bansnersrifle.com/hightech/index.html) wework closely with Mark Bansner, other than us

, he is one of the top guys in the industry in custom lightweght bolt rifles....

WildmarkisagoodguytooAlaska

Ben Swenson · September 14, 2005, 06:37 PM

Will your stock not have the studs that the picture shows?

I know you're going to want to shoot that rifle a lot. I'm going to call over to Wolf Performance Ammunition and see if they have any plans on making some steel-cased 6.5x55mm. If they do, maybe we can take up a collection to ship you a case.

Wildalaska · September 14, 2005, 06:48 PM

WildicanputafrontstudinortakeitoutAlaska

Gewehr98 · September 14, 2005, 07:22 PM

I've got two of their triggers in my business rifles. Hence me asking why WildAlaska went cheap on a Timney.

Mine are both single-set models, and look a lot like this:

Wildalaska · September 14, 2005, 07:45 PM

Got to check if you can use a Canjar with a three position....

But canjar is more of a target trigger

WildlikestimneysAlaska

Jart · September 14, 2005, 07:54 PM

THAT'S IT! THAT'S IT!

Canjar

My day is fer sure made. The Canjar is beutific "unset". Don't have to be a benchrest shooter or a ninja. Just don't push it forward and it's a working trigger of the gods.

Gewehr98, where do you get them?

Happy dance, happy dance, Canjar lives!

Sorry, Wild. Didn't mean to hijack your thread.

Canjar, mmmmmmmmmmmmmmm

Wildalaska · September 14, 2005, 07:58 PM

Yikes dude ya just needed to ask about em we have em here...

Gonna put one in a high power

WildcustomAlaska

Jart · September 14, 2005, 08:02 PM

Sorry, Hoss, never thought to ask. When I got back in the hobby all I heard about was Timney and Jewell.

Had a Canjar 3 decades ago and it was a revelation.

After le grand puissance, we talk.
I kept all our email on the Sauers, but I'm so smitten with that thing we just might build something around it.

Childhood memories...

Gewehr98 · September 14, 2005, 08:09 PM

The Canjar trigger is most definitely NOT assigned to the exclusive domain of the paper-punching crowd. No more so than a Keplinger single-set trigger in a Ruger #1, or double-set triggers on a Sharps .45-110 or Hawken front-stuffer.

Jart, give these folks a call, they'll mail you their (small) catalogue:

MH Canjar Co./Canjar Triggers

500 E. 45th Ave.

Denver, CO 80216

(303)295-2638

A pic of my Canjar/Krieger/Vais-equipped 98 Mauser in 6.5-06:

Jart · September 14, 2005, 08:18 PM

Just like finding out an old friend isn't dead, after all.

Now, I finally KNOW what's next on the acquisition agenda.

'Course, I'm probably the only member of TFL that DIDN'T know Canjar was still pumping out product. Embarassing, but I'm over it.

Gewehr98 · September 14, 2005, 08:21 PM

More like squirtin' out a few units every month, kinda like Old Man Kart and his wunnerful 1911 barrels, if you know what I mean.

Which reminds me, I gotta get off my arse and order a Keplinger for my Ruger #1, too.

Wildalaska · September 14, 2005, 08:24 PM

We have a couple of them in the shop.....the guys arent enamoured of them as a hunting rifle trigger...

Ive been looking at the NECG set trigger so nothing is cast in stone in that area....

But first first...Three position or not???

WildbacktobasixAlaska

Jart · September 15, 2005, 08:54 AM

OK, back on track, here.

I like the side safety. No reason, just personal prejudice.

"Our ideas, your money"
Fun.

September 14, 2005, 01:05 PM	#2
Gewehr98 Senior Member Join Date: June 30, 2000 Location: Token Creek, WI Posts: 4,067	Timney, and cost is no objection? Canjar, perhaps even a single-set model. Your choice of safety. Express sights on a quarter-rib with fold-up leaves for different ranges. Although your 6.5x55 is a bit flatter shooting than the old Nitros that used those sights earlier. Nitre or rust blueing. I'm gonna plum brown my own express rifle project, but that may be over the top for some folks. Floorplate release lever? __________________ "Bother", said Pooh, as he chambered another round... Neural Misfires

September 14, 2005, 01:37 PM	#3
Eghad Senior Member Join Date: May 28, 2005 Location: Texas Posts: 6,231	Timney Im not a big fan of band swivels on a barrel nor any other thing on a barrel.. but I could be talked into the german soldered one checkered bolt handle...three panels engraved floorplate ...and reciever barrel band front sight with the rear express sights __________________ Have a nice day at the range NRA Life Member

September 14, 2005, 08:09 PM	#14
Gewehr98 Senior Member Join Date: June 30, 2000 Location: Token Creek, WI Posts: 4,067	WildAlaska, you poor besotten creature... The Canjar trigger is most definitely NOT assigned to the exclusive domain of the paper-punching crowd. No more so than a Keplinger single-set trigger in a Ruger #1, or double-set triggers on a Sharps .45-110 or Hawken front-stuffer. Jart, give these folks a call, they'll mail you their (small) catalogue: MH Canjar Co./Canjar Triggers 500 E. 45th Ave. Denver, CO 80216 (303)295-2638 A pic of my Canjar/Krieger/Vais-equipped 98 Mauser in 6.5-06: __________________ "Bother", said Pooh, as he chambered another round... Neural Misfires

September 14, 2005, 08:21 PM	#16
Gewehr98 Senior Member Join Date: June 30, 2000 Location: Token Creek, WI Posts: 4,067	I wouldn't say they're pumping out product, though. More like squirtin' out a few units every month, kinda like Old Man Kart and his wunnerful 1911 barrels, if you know what I mean. Which reminds me, I gotta get off my arse and order a Keplinger for my Ruger #1, too. __________________ "Bother", said Pooh, as he chambered another round... Neural Misfires

September 14, 2005, 12:46 PM	#1
Wildalaska Junior member Join Date: November 25, 2002 Location: In my own little weird world in Anchorage, Alaska Posts: 14,172	Enough Politics! Build my Custom Rifle Heres the parameters...its so far a Husqvarna 1600 action with a Dakota Contoured #1 barrel, 24 inches. It is chambered (of course) for 6.5x55. its gonna be CerraKoted and will ride in a High tech synthetic stock. The rest is still being decided...cost is no object 1. Use a Timney with side safety, or do a three position and fill the safety slot in the receiver with a milled plug? 2. Checker bolt handle two panel offset or three panel? 3. Barrel band sling swivel, or soldered on german stud...or none at all? 4. Barrel band front sight or simple williams or NECG H&H style or...... 5. Express rear, quarter rib, dakota style sight, NECG adjustable? 6. No rear sight at all..use auxiliary peep 6. Engraving....just the floorplate or go nuts (Im friends with a Guild Engraver) No hurry to do, this is for bext year..... WildhepmeAlaska

September 14, 2005, 05:27 PM	#5
Ben Swenson Senior Member Join Date: May 17, 2000 Posts: 1,210	I vote against mounting a sling swivel on any sort of barrel band. Tell us more about the stock you've got picked out.

September 14, 2005, 05:42 PM	#6
Wildalaska Junior member Join Date: November 25, 2002 Location: In my own little weird world in Anchorage, Alaska Posts: 14,172	Standard Hi tech synthetic stock (which we believe is the ne plus ultra of sythetic stocks)..they are made by Bansners Ultimate rifles (http://www.bansnersrifle.com/hightech/index.html) wework closely with Mark Bansner, other than us , he is one of the top guys in the industry in custom lightweght bolt rifles.... WildmarkisagoodguytooAlaska

September 14, 2005, 06:37 PM	#7
Ben Swenson Senior Member Join Date: May 17, 2000 Posts: 1,210	Will your stock not have the studs that the picture shows? I know you're going to want to shoot that rifle a lot. I'm going to call over to Wolf Performance Ammunition and see if they have any plans on making some steel-cased 6.5x55mm. If they do, maybe we can take up a collection to ship you a case.

September 14, 2005, 06:48 PM	#8
Wildalaska Junior member Join Date: November 25, 2002 Location: In my own little weird world in Anchorage, Alaska Posts: 14,172	WildicanputafrontstudinortakeitoutAlaska

September 14, 2005, 07:45 PM	#10
Wildalaska Junior member Join Date: November 25, 2002 Location: In my own little weird world in Anchorage, Alaska Posts: 14,172	Got to check if you can use a Canjar with a three position.... But canjar is more of a target trigger WildlikestimneysAlaska

September 14, 2005, 07:54 PM	#11
Jart Senior Member Join Date: December 24, 2001 Location: Grand Prairie, TX Posts: 1,647	THAT'S IT! THAT'S IT! Canjar My day is fer sure made. The Canjar is beutific "unset". Don't have to be a benchrest shooter or a ninja. Just don't push it forward and it's a working trigger of the gods. Gewehr98, where do you get them? Happy dance, happy dance, Canjar lives! Sorry, Wild. Didn't mean to hijack your thread. Canjar, mmmmmmmmmmmmmmm

September 14, 2005, 07:58 PM	#12
Wildalaska Junior member Join Date: November 25, 2002 Location: In my own little weird world in Anchorage, Alaska Posts: 14,172	Yikes dude ya just needed to ask about em we have em here... Gonna put one in a high power WildcustomAlaska

September 14, 2005, 08:02 PM	#13
Jart Senior Member Join Date: December 24, 2001 Location: Grand Prairie, TX Posts: 1,647	Sorry, Hoss, never thought to ask. When I got back in the hobby all I heard about was Timney and Jewell. Had a Canjar 3 decades ago and it was a revelation. After le grand puissance, we talk. I kept all our email on the Sauers, but I'm so smitten with that thing we just might build something around it. Childhood memories...

September 14, 2005, 08:18 PM	#15
Jart Senior Member Join Date: December 24, 2001 Location: Grand Prairie, TX Posts: 1,647	Just like finding out an old friend isn't dead, after all. Now, I finally KNOW what's next on the acquisition agenda. 'Course, I'm probably the only member of TFL that DIDN'T know Canjar was still pumping out product. Embarassing, but I'm over it.

September 14, 2005, 08:24 PM	#17
Wildalaska Junior member Join Date: November 25, 2002 Location: In my own little weird world in Anchorage, Alaska Posts: 14,172	We have a couple of them in the shop.....the guys arent enamoured of them as a hunting rifle trigger... Ive been looking at the NECG set trigger so nothing is cast in stone in that area.... But first first...Three position or not??? WildbacktobasixAlaska

September 15, 2005, 08:54 AM	#18
Jart Senior Member Join Date: December 24, 2001 Location: Grand Prairie, TX Posts: 1,647	OK, back on track, here. I like the side safety. No reason, just personal prejudice. "Our ideas, your money" Fun.