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Finishing up an MVA action .40-65 I’m building. If this is of interest I’ll post a few more photos.
Cheers Richard

Keep it coming! Always like to see talent!
Tom Klinger

That is a tease. More, more.

Woody

Gorgeous!
More please.
Smallbore

Yeah we’ll be needed to see more photos of that!!!

Very nice Richard. That is some spectacular wood.

More PLZ!

Started out with a single set trigger MVA action. Had to do a bit of filing on the action and quite a bit of filing to get a more graceful line to the lever. Then a lot of stoning to get it ready for case hardening. All in all it is a very nice action that just needs a little work to finish it up. MVA says it’s about .005” oversized so it cleans up well. I started on this project a few years ago before I got my lathe, mill, surface grinder and heat treat oven so had to send it of to Turnbull for case hardening. The barrel is a RKS stainless gain twist. My neighbor Ron Snover chambered it with a custom reamer from Manson and also turned and octagoned the barrdel and I did all the finishing. Nice to have my own machinery so I can do all the work in house from now on.
Cheers Richard

...and a few more

Danged if she isn't kinda decent looking... in a Sophia Loren kinda way....
Really liked the look in the bright, it's all the flow of the lines and fitment
Beautiful....

perfect example that preparation is 99.9%of the job. really nicely done....

perfect example that preparation is 99.9%of the job. really nicely done....

perfect example that preparation is 99.9%of the job. really nicely done....

If you can, get a hardness check on the firing pin link cam, I had a couple wear prematurely, made replacements from A-2, HT&T to Rc 55/60

Dave

Thanks for the kind words guys. Dave thanks for the info, I’ll check it out. I’m having some difficulty posting pics.
Following is the blank I started with. I think I got it from c. Fredi. It a very hard piece of Turkish.