Anschutz 54 Match single shot action?

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Anschutz 54 Match single shot action?

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Greetings all,

I have done search on the forum about viability to use Anschutz 54 Match single shot action as a basis for a silhouette rifle, but the answers do not appear to be conclusive. I would, therefore, like to ask if someone has done so.

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Nemo, More than one person has built a silhouette rifle off a single shot 54 action. Nothing wrong with that. Very good choice actually.


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Mary,

thank you for the confirmation because from the posts on the forum I have gotten an impression that to make a weigh is rather difficult if not impossible. Now I will start hunting for the action.

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Nemo,
Usually the action is not the problem...it is the size and weight of the barrel and stock. I have seen some Winchester 52 bull barrels cut down to 18" barrels to make weight, I wouldn't do that to a Annie 54, just rebarrel it, if it is a bull barrel and find a lighter stock that suits you.

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Anschutz 54 w Hart bbl & Fajen stk.jpg
Anschutz 54 w Lilja bbl in RTS stk.jpg
Anschutz Custom by Kenyon in Champion stk w Shilen bbl.jpg
Nemo... here are some examples of what Innocent was talking about.
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Mary,

thank you for the explanation that makes sense. I will see if I can buy just the action by itself.

CWS,

thank you for the pictures, I think that you have too many action 54 based rifles and need to sell some. :wink:

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Not using it now, but here's one of my 54 actions
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Nemo...you cannot have too many 54 actions! Just like you can not have too many WInchester 52 actions!

259 you should break out the Red Machine and shoot it more!

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Innocent wrote:259 you should break out the Red Machine and shoot it more!
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The 54's are for the family... I shoot 40X's. And like Innocent said, you don't sell 54's... you buy them.
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And Nemo, he failed to mention that he has more than one shooter in his family! So did you inherit another shooter with a marriage CW?

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Yeah, (sigh) another reason to expand the collection. Good guy, but has a hard time understanding how he keeps getting outshot by GURLLS. Told him to get used to it. I did long ago.
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CWS,
And like Innocent said, you don't sell 54's... you buy them.
As far as I am concerned, not having one yet, it is an inappropriate attitude. :(

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I've never sold a 54 action and probably won't....The latest acquistion, an 1808 single shot, has already been claimed by Mini Kitty for her next hunter build...I should have been more agressive in buying them a few years ago, before the Frankenhunter gun used 54 MSR's were very reasonable and single shot variants even more so.
Back then I didn't know that grandkids could claim a rifle that you bought and it magically became theirs....

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jneihouse wrote:Back then I didn't know that grandkids could claim a rifle that you bought and it magically became theirs....

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