I just received my rifles back from Mr. Wooster. Thanks Steve, they are awesome!!!!! Rifle #1 is my 1712. Rifle #2 is my 1710.

Rifle #1 1712

Rifle #2 1710

Cool rifles Jason. Will we get to see these in March down in Chattanooga?

Sweet

Jason,

Nice pictures. Glad to here you like them. I thought you would wrap them and open on Christmas.

Steve

Nice looking rifles Jason. Very nice work Mr.Wooster.

I do have one observation, albeit negative, about rifle #2's Leupold scope. Your nice Leupold suffers from "USS". Ugly Sunshade Syndrome. In 2004 Leupold went to different threads and for some reason made the sunshades smaller in diameter. But..fear not my friend. I have a cure for USS. A couple of years ago I made 100 or so aluminum adaptor rings that allows old style (still available) sunshades to screw into newer post 2004 40mm Leupold scopes. I still have a small pile of them here at home. I saw that some older sunshades are for sale at a good price here on the SC classifieds. A ring or two is yours for the asking, PM me with your mailing address. Here is a photo of the rings.

http://s766.photobucket.com/albums/xx302/seveno8/ring/

Thanks Bob M. I wondered why they made them smaller than the scopes. I will get in touch with you. I can't wait to shoot them. I might have to shoot them in the morning. It's amazing how light the stocks are. The 1712 with the 6.5-20 weighs 7.35#'s and the 1710 weighs 8.06#'s with the 25x.

Jason,
Great looking rifles! I'm hoping to get myself a 1712 here very soon.

I have a question about your mounts - where did you get them? Can you tell me more about them, is your gun drilled & tapped for the mounts?

Thanks for the info.
Greg

Mr. Wooster, you have a fine looking stock!

ShootingStar wrote:Jason,
Great looking rifles! I'm hoping to get myself a 1712 here very soon.

I have a question about your mounts - where did you get them? Can you tell me more about them, is your gun drilled & tapped for the mounts?

Thanks for the info.
Greg

The mounts are from Mr. Marvin Pearson. The base slides over the dovetail and attaches to the tapped receiver. Then the rings slide onto the base and are attached to the base int he same manner. I believe they are the best out there. I feel very fortunate to have these two matching sets.

Wow!!!! Very nice!!!. Love the colors.

Did Steve bed the action, or is this a future project.
Brett

Steve hand built both of them for the actions.

That is a good looking rifle for sure. Out of curiosity what are the height of the rings?
thanks

They are right under the hunter class limit. I believe they are 1.475" . I would have to check to be positive. Mr. Marvin makes awesome stuff. Steve shined them up for me to match the bottom metal. They are nice and shiny.