Recent content by Ray Fryar

No I did not, for the bolt action I bought the round stock that was already heat treated to save time and money on having it done. It is all 4140 pre-hardened steel. The trigger and sear were made from A-514 pre-hard. All of the metal for the 45-70 was pre-hardened as well.

They are all DeHaas designs that I have modified heavily. Here is one more of a different design. The first picture is 2 12" pieces of 4140 pre-hard round stock 1" round and the other 1 1/2" round. The barrel was a 1 1/2" x 28" cylinder blank and I contoured it to a straight taper from 1 1/16”...

Thank you all, you are making my head swell. I have just made them for me and haven't shared them much except with family. Here are a couple more that I have built, the dark stock is my 224 Valkyrie I made for long range target shooting and the blond stock is a 17 Hornet. They are of the...

Thank you, I must admit I did run it through a planer to get the bulk of the material off of the sides but all the rest was rasps, files and sand paper. It took me 40 hr. to completely get it fitted and finished. I have been working on firearms most of my life but only started making them in...

Thank you.

I have not had any problems with the safety it works good in all of the situations that I have been in.

It is Mr single shot’s book of rifle plans by Frank and Mark De Hass.

Ok everyone interested I started another thread, here you go for your viewing enjoyment LOL. https://www.longrangehunting.com/threads/more-info-about-my-45-70-home-build.347312/

More Pictures.

Ok for all that wanted some more information on the 45-70 that I built here you go. I started with the reading of an article about the 45-70 Sandy Hook Trials in 2015 and was amazed what they had achieved, so I decided to look in to building a rifle that would be designed on the same parameters...

https://www.longrangehunting.com/threads/single-shot-rifle-actions.243144/page-2 post 26.

I had posted some pictures of the rifle in the gunsmithing forum on a previous thread called single shot rifles a couple of years ago. When I get a chance I will start a new thread for it.

Wow! man I could go on for a while on that, we should probably start a thread some where else to discuss that topic, and I would be glad to share if any one is interested just let me know and where to post it. Thanks

Yes, I am a pretty good shot but I have to admit I did practice every weekend for 2 months shooting at 100 to 300 yards with cold barrel shots just to make sure my load and I were repeatable LOL.

Not so crazy in the 1800s that’s what the rifle was designed on the 1897 model 45-70s, it is a reproduction of the Malcom scope.