This thread on Huskys has me wriggling in my seat as I'm days away from having my latest (and probably last) Husky put in my hands by my friend/gunsmith/dual sport riding buddy. 35 Whelen in a Mannlicher style stock on a Model 5000 action. Warned me he's just "fiddled around" with stock making over his 40 years, and the only full length wood he could find at anything resembling a reasonable price was rather plain looking.
Under 7.5 lbs as it is right now, bedded and test fired for grouping (it is a Mannlicher full length stock after all). Another ounce or so will come off when he gets rid of all the excess wood left on the stock and comb to get it fitted to me prior to checkering and finish. Hunting season is open and I'm desperate to get out chasing critters; I told him to just give it to me once the fitting and bluing is finished. I'll slap on one light coat of oil, get a satisfactory load developed, and he can do the checkering and finish after hunting season.
It will have to be Barnes 200 gr. TTSX for now to head out after elk and moose. Fun with cast bullets will have to wait until hunting season is over.
I should wait until it's finished and grab a real camera instead of using my steam powered old cellphone in his traditionally dark shop, but it's not often that I get this excited as a rather jaded senior citizen.
The pic with the second rifle is the previous Husky he built and chambered as a 30 Newton. It is about all I've carried as my big game rifle ever since he built it for me. My Sakos and other Huskies kind of languish in the gun safes... I kind of have to avert my eyes in shame as I feel their accusatory feelings of betrayal as they're relegated to range queens.