Sunday, August 7, 2016

New Rifle for My Kid!! My Daughter Joining the Varmint Club

Ok. Sometime back I posted that when I cleaned up dads shop last year, I found 5 M98/clone actions. Two still bearing Waffen proof marks. One Turkish small ring, one Czech made BRNO Vz24 and one with all makers marks polished off. I posted a couple of ideas about calibers etc to a hand loading forum I visit and left it there.
So a couple months ago my 16 y/o daughter says she wants to go with me and shoot prairie dogs next year. I asked her repeatedly on different days just to make sure she was committed. She affirmed her request several times. So I dig through all the parts and pieces. There is one complete .30-06 and all it needs is a stock. That one is out. I find another heavy barrel looks like the barrel is shot out, and the action is in good shape. The trigger guard and bottom metal need some TLC.    In my stash of parts I found a new in package M98 Timney trigger. So I think we are ready to send off for a new .22-250 barrel.

Haven't decided what kind of stock.   She likes thumbhole stocks, so I'm sure it will be a crazy color thumbhole. :-)

So here it begins: