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Hullo all,

I would like to share about a custom built 30-06 I commissioned:

Some years back, I decided I wanted to have a properly built rifle that met my specifications for accuracy and reliability. I wanted a rifle built on a classic Mauser action with its controlled round feeding and long claw extractor, yet have the accuracy of a modern rifle.

I wanted a rifle that would shoot ten shots into 1/2 inch at 100 yards, yet not be too heavy to lug around in the field.

I contacted Robert Kleinguenther of Sequin, Texas, USA to discuss my project. Mr Kleinguenther was the main designer of Roy Weatherby, owner of the revolutionary Weatherby Rifles Company and a person highly recommended to me by various friends.

We selected a Mauser 98 action from Whitworth Arms, a British company which still supplies these coveted actions for Best British gun makers such as Holland and Holland, Westley Richards etc, featuring the full length claw extractor and controlled round feeding.

The Barrel is a Douglas Premium well known for its extraordinary accuracy and is in a medium sporter weight

Kleinguenther stocked it with a Brown Precision fiberglass stock designed with steel inserts and pillar bedding for more rigidity in the Classic configuration and fitted it with a Pachmayr White Line Decellerator recoil pad.

He then added his Kleinguenther Distinctive Firearms Muzzle Brake which substantially reduces the recoil of the rifle to less than that of a 243.

I topped the rifle with a Leupold Vari X III Scope in 3 x 9 with a variable Objective and mounted it in hand lapped Redfield Mounts for a perfect zero.

The trigger was worked on to break at a crisp 3 pounds and the safety was made smooth and silent.

The metal work was then finished in a smooth matte finish and the stock in a black stippled matte finish.

I called the rifle Kalloo, reflecting a friendlier name for its all black appearance

Hope you guys enjoy this,

Rahoul

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Hi Skeetshot,
> Your description of Kalloo is making me impatient to see what it looks like. Pl. send pictures.
> With such experts & renowned parts behind it, it must be a real beauty.
> You wanted Kalloo to put 5 rounds within 1/2" - did you achieve this?
Cheers
Brihacharan

Skeetshot, a beautiful rifle indeed! Do tell everyone about what happened when you went to collect your rifle, am sure everyone here would love to hear that anecdote

Cheers!
Abhijeet

brihacharan wrote:Hi Skeetshot,
> Your description of Kalloo is making me impatient to see what it looks like. Pl. send pictures.
> With such experts & renowned parts behind it, it must be a real beauty.
> You wanted Kalloo to put 5 rounds within 1/2" - did you achieve this?
Cheers
Brihacharan

Well, after six months of waiting and many anxious phone calls, old man Kleinguenther announced that the rifle was ready !!

I flew down to Houston from where it was a three hour drive to Sequin and where Robert introduced me to his four beautiful blond daughters (each one is prettier than the next, anxious father that he was).

The rifle was ready and we drove down to the range to check its functioning and accuracy.

The functioning was perfect with each round going schnickity-schnuck from magazine to chamber in any position including upside down, so we prepared to shoot. I let Kleinguenther do the shooting and I spotted for him. The first group of five shots went into about an inch.

We cleaned the barrel and shot again. One inch. No good.

We went back to the shop and he fidlled with the rifle, and we went back to the range. This time I shot, and again, five shots into one inch. No good. then Kleinguenther shot. One inch. Back to the shop.

He opened up the rifle and adjusted the bedding screws. We had a quick lunch and got back into the car. As we reached the range, Robert Kleinguenther looked at me and stated " If the rifle dont shoot this time, we leave it here and I'll build you another one"

Friends, that rifle shot.

I put ten shots into 3/8inch and I still have that target. Kleinguenther complimented my shooting and I complimented his rifle. That muzzle brake just takes the entire recoil out of the system and the weapon purrs like a pussy cat.

I have consequently had some phenomenal shots with this rifle, and the ultimate complement to it was when I used it with home made peep sights (sans muzzle brake, of course) to win the silver medal in the Big Bore event in Mhow a few years back.

And that is the story of Kalloo.

Hi Skeetshoot,
> Hey that was prompt!!!
> I particularly liked Robert's statement ' If the rifle doesn't shoot this time I'll make a new one''. Boy -oh- Boy, that's commitment to perfection.
> Just one question - what grain of bullets did you use - 150 / 180 / 220?
Cheers
Brihacharan

beautiful.... would have been nice to have a nice select walnut stock too..

I like the name and the performance is very impressive. I also like the "understated elegance" and accuracy of a custom made "sleeper" rifle. Congratulations on a very fine rifle.

brihacharan wrote:Hi Skeetshoot,
> Hey that was prompt!!!
> I particularly liked Robert's statement ' If the rifle doesn't shoot this time I'll make a new one''. Boy -oh- Boy, that's commitment to perfection.
> Just one question - what grain of bullets did you use - 150 / 180 / 220?
Cheers
Brihacharan

My favorite for the 30-06 is the 165 grain bullet. I prefer flat base to boat tails.

-- Fri Apr 16, 2010 9:16 pm --

sat wrote:beautiful.... would have been nice to have a nice select walnut stock too..

Yes, walnut makes a weapon look real pretty, and to complement it would require a high lustre deep blue finish.

For Kalloo, I selected the graphite finish since it is tougher, waterproof and therefore wont swell and shift the zero, oil proof- stocks get ruined with gun oil, except Ballistol, of course and doesnt show knocks. Therefore , Kalloo got a glass bead matte finish which doesnt shine too much and holds rust resisting oils in its capilliaries.

Its a nice rifle no doubt.

But if that thing is shooting 3/8th of an inch 10 shot groups, with a 3 lb trigger off a bi-pod you need to get into competitive bench rest asap.

You must have been a renowned shot before dating kalloo cause otherwise there wouldn't have been a kalloo


Regards,

Dev

Black is Beautiful ..sweet looking gun

Cheers

Congratulations on a very nice looking rifle.Could you please shed more light on the action, please?Any idea if it's an FN Mauser action?


Best-
Vikram

you can never beat a rifle which one has commissioned. as it is what you want and not what you get. not only that one gets to see the insight in the making of it as well.

Wow! Congratualtion! That is absolutely gorgeous!