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Enjoying this alot. If you dont mind sharing, how did you clean the stock and what kind of oil did you use?

My two cents, With out the scope and the overtravel screw, It looks like so many other rifles. Its much more pleasing to the eye this way. I liked the things that made it different.

I thought the screw stuck out like a sore thumb and noticed at how much nicer the rifle looked just covering the screw up with the arrow on my screen.

Thanks for sharing these things, I look forward to seeing whats here each day.

I clean the older stocks with RAW linseed oil a just rub it in with my hand, then wipe it off with a soft cloth. Same treatment for the checkering if dirty but use a soft toothbrush. If the stock is real bad and this one was not I use 0000 steel wood or an old wash rag.

"My two cents, With out the scope and the overtravel screw, It looks like so many other rifles."

Not to me, when I first saw a picture of this rifle over a year ago I was very excited. Mr. King was one of the men we need to remember. Hopefully someday this rifle will help other recognize and preserve his work.

Unfortunately this rifle showed up too late to be in a Ross King article that's at the magazine now. I will, in the future use the pictures of this one as well.

You might consider an old fashioned recoil pad.... I am not sure about this but I think the Silvers pad is still made. Or a leather covered pad if ... and I am not sure about this either ... they were in fashion in the 1930s.

Where do you find RAW linseed? I have only seen boiled. A health food store (flax seed oil)?

artist supply store. It is used in mixing paints too.
Steve

I was thinking as I followed the post that King was the builder and seeing that the scope , mounts and butt plate are all items from the same period that they where original to the build.


I just went back and reread your first post. I see that the historical significance of the rifle is that it was stocked by King.

Do you know about when this stock was made?

I might just have to find a good book on American rifle builders and get caught up

I believe that the Ross King built the rifle in the first part of 1922. I saw a rifle that did not have items from the same period. If you go back early in the thread you will see that I wrote this before I knew much about Mr. Murphy.

There are a lot of connect-the-dots with this outfit. The action was made about the time the barrel was made and it's not listed in the DCM book. Murphy must have had some pull with both Springfield and Pope to have them so close together. Pope was backed up with work for months if not years. I have not even started looking for Mr. Murphy but I figure he died around 1938.

I try to learn not only about the maker but I do tend to form a picture of the person who commissioned the rifle. He had one of the best stockmakers make his stock and had Pope make the barrel. This rifle has no engraving but does have a Pope barrel on a (sporting) hunting rifle. So I figured if I had had this rifle made the only way those modifications would be found on it was if I were dead. I thought 1938 was about right because that was when the last thing was introduced. Ross King might only be a household name in my house but he made a lot of rifles , none that I know are marked with his name. If I can show folks what his work looks like maybe in the future when one of these rifles surfaces someone will not do the same thing to that rifle.

My friend Monte was asked if he would mount a scope on a nice old classic rifle. He told the customer "Sure and when we get done with that we can glue some arms on the Venus de Milo".

What does work is this....If you have a classic rifle and it's worth $1000 mount a scope on it and it's now worth $500.

Im learning. Slowly, but learning. This really has made me want to learn more. Thanks.

This rifle has the original “Wundhammer Palm Swell” done the same as Wundhammer did them.

I guess I see the swell, but it certainly is not very dramatic and it seems to be symmetrical. I thought most palm swell grips were set up for right or left hand