IOF 30-06 Rifle

[winnie_the_pooh]

Unless you are in the habit of throwing you rifles around or have to carry them in a vehicle where it can get banged around or have to carry it through rough terrain,it is difficult to screw up the crown.Most rifles shoot just fine even with crowns,that to some,will look suspect.

[Safarigent]

Umm, i meant the ones you use when cleaning your rifles, to protect the crown.

http://www.pistoleer.com/kleenbore/cleaning_aids/

[Risala]

Doesnt get better than http://www.deweyrods.com/ & they ship to India

[Safarigent]

Hmmm.... Thanks for that.

[Pritu79]

Hi guys was thinking of adding pics of my cousins IOF 30-06 for some time.... atlast i found them today , rather i remembered they were on my mailbox. He has completely worked on it from the walnut stock to sights. All the work was done by him......he is an excellent gunsmith and has a lot to learn from me .
(to be clear term mentioned gunsmith, is an hobby not profession)
the final result was really satisfactory, these are quite old pics at least 2 yrs old.
any ways enjoy.

http://s1186.photobucket.com/albums/z36 ... /IOF%2030/

[Safarigent]

I never knew the iof could be fitted with a one piece stock!!
Good work

[veeveeaar]

pritu79, Can you tell us from where he has had that stock done like that , what wood and how much . I am so happy that there is a good talent in guns in india

[Pritu79]

The walnut stock blank was lying around for years with me, as i mentioned the stock was done (as in completely carpentered) by my cousin. The main aim of building the stock was the bad fit of the OE stock and never liked the idea of a split stock. Though chiseling around the trigger-magazine area was a difficult task...but the end result was really pleasing and a drastic improvement in accuracy, since problems like head spacing, free floating the barell, tuning and polishing the trigger were tackled. The IOF 30 trigger has potiential and i really liked it.

[The Doc]

Nice hog back stock.

best,
Rp.

[Pritu79]

Yes the hog back does look good....before starting with the stock had seen a CZ 550 safari which is an good looking rifle. the pistol grip does have an palm swevel too but its not seen in the pics.

[perfectionist1]

@pritu79,

Aspiring to have similar 30 06 like you have. Thanks for sharing the pics and details.

Cheers

[Katana]

Here are pics of the rectified extractor claw.

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This work was done for me by an elderly armourer. He took one look at it and said it was a matter of a day's job for him. The man got down to making it and on the 3rd. day he called me to come take a look at it. He had fashioned one from steel with just an empty cartridge as a template, because I had lost the original broken one. Another couple of days and he had tempered it.

The good thing about this bolt is that one does not need to disassemble it to remove or fit the extractor. It can be done by simply pushing it down and removing it with or without the flat spring.

Many thanks, Z375, mundaire and denzilmathew for your advise and patience!

[Katana]

A long held grouse about this weapon is it's stock. The factory fitted stock in my rifle came in a pukey yellow coloured wood that I love to hate. It's ergonomics were completely wrong and the balance improper. Although IOF rectified this feature in their 2011 models, the measurements remained the same. I have yet to figure out what the wood is exactly.

For an arm of this calibre the stock plays an inherent role in it's efficiency as well as visual appeal. So I decided to have a stock made to my liking. A friend was gracious enough to gift me some Kashmir walnut and I finally zeroed on a gunsmith who could make me one. After seeing some people's work, I decided to retain this particular gentleman because his wood working is par excellence but he would not pay attention to detail while polishing it. So my brief to him was to make the stock according to my instructions but to leave the polishing to me.

As far as the design was concerned, I decided to retain the Sauer/ IOF design of a Monte Carlo butt with a schnabel forend. A thin strip of buffalo horn was to be used at the base of the pistol grip without white lining, just to deny a bland appearance of a protrusion. The forend schnabel was to be free of any addition of the like of buffalo horn or a darker wood. The idea was simplicity in design as well as material. For checkering, I lifted a 3 line design from Roy Dunlap's 'Gunsmithing', simply because I liked it for it's frugality. I did a tracing according to measurements for both pieces of wood and asked him to replicate it .

It took this gent five weeks to make it, in the end complaining that he had never bruised his hands so much in getting it right! But then a good measure of a craftsman is see as to how much he talks about the article he is making, therefore letting it be known about the pride he has in his work. Anyway, this gent called me thrice to his workshop while the work was in progress to check the balance, my stance and line of sight. It was on the fourth trip to him in a little over a month that he handed over the pieces to me.

Here they are, 'body in white' in automobile industry parlance. Don't know what we should call it, maybe just 'unfinished' stocks

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[Katana]

Last week I got down to polishing the stock.

I first sanded it with 320 grit sandpaper, then 400 and finally 600 grit. Pics are in the above post. After that came a 50:50 dose of Birchwood Casey's walnut stainer and clean water followed with BC's Gun Stock Oil and Filler.

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After this the stock was wet sanded with 400 and 600 grit paper till a slurry formed. All marks left over were either removed or filled in at this stage. I have repeated this process 3 times till I got the feel and shade just the way I want it.

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After this process I combined 1:3 parts of BC Gun Oil and Filler and good quality paint thinner. One coat has been applied. I intend to apply two more followed by BC's Satin Sheen. This is what it looks like currently.

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[nagarifle]

now thats a whole lot of improvement, well done