The link below offers a slide show showing the build from beginning to end :
http://smg.photobucket.com/user/haysb/slideshow/8 X 57 mm Sporter
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They say Rome wasn't built in a day.......................
Gorgeous piece of Walnut and wonderful whittling, Ben. I love the knots and erratic grain patterns with curl and fiddleback scattered throughout. Not often we see a stock with all that eye candy that still has perfect grain through the wrist. Your work did it true justice! I also like the way you did the tang with a groove in the wood, like the original. A lot of people will tell you that the "right" way to shape that is to file the tang down at the back so it blends in with the sear notch and the wood requires no groove, but to me that spoils the classic Mauser line of the wrist and makes it look too much like a Winchester.