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I know - I know pictures. ...
I have a very nice. I mean excellent workmanship custom bolt action rifle marked on the bottom of the barrel RG West. The web tells me Bob West taught at Trinidad and worked with or under P.O. Ackley. Any info would be appreciated. I spoke to a gentleman in Washington who knew him but not the rifle.
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Bob West was lately a member of the CGMG. He died a few years ago at a quite advanced age. At the time I met him, about 1977, we both lived in Eugene, OR. He did reboring and other barrel work at that time. He was one of the custom gun guys contemporary to Ackley, Kennedy, and Stiegal.
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Octagon barrel. Precise wood to metal fit, tiny attention to detail like wood contour around safety and bolt release.
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Very nice rifle.
Is that a left handed short action remington? I believe remington did not introduce the short action in left hand until fairly recently. But the checkering looks very 50's ish. I've seen that forend checkering pattern somewhere else (in fact I copied it on a Shilen 300 mag that I checkered for a friend back when I was trying to be a stock maker)...........found it. Kennedys book page 146. Leonard Mews Remington 721. Nearly identical pattern but the Mews is skip line.
Anyway, very interesting rifle. What is the caliber.
Thanks for posting.
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So that leads to my next question. Who can properly rebore this barrel and make my 22-250 a 250-3000?
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I knew Bob West pretty well as we both lived in Eugene for quite a number of years. He was an ACGG (American Custom Gunmakers Guild) member and last I saw him was at one of our shows in Reno. Bob made some stocks but that looks a cut above his work. He made many more barrels and rebored even more than that.
He worked for Martin/Marietta (?) in Colorado for many years and retired from there prior to moving to Eugene. Bob was Left-handed like the rifle.
The stock makes me think of Larry Brace, another Eugene gunmaker, a good friend and mentor to me who did superb checkering. Larry did a lot of work that wasn't signed but you might look around for his initials? It looks like a very fine rifle with old school quarter-sawn California English walnut.
Bill, I moved to Eugene in 1978 and left in 1995, I thought you lived in Grants Pass. What is CGMG?
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Lots of curves to that cheek piece that look very distinctive to me. I don't recognize it as anyone's work particularly, but I do recognize it as being different from all others I have seen. It is beautiful work though I can't say I'm all that fond of the pattern he used for the checking.
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Steve, I lived in Eugene 76-78 while my wife did a graduate program at U of O. We moved to Ashland from there for the next 20-some years. Retired to Missoula. CGMG= Custom Gunmakers' Guild.
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Don't know if he is still doing it, but some years ago I found myself with two Steyr-Mannlichers in 22-250. I sent one to Snapp's Gunshop in Clare, Michigan, to be rebored and rifled and got back a 250-3000 which is my favorite deer rifle.
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