The action features polished rails, jeweled bolt body and follower, custom bolt shroud with three-position wing safety, custom steel bolt handle with four checkered teardrop panels, custom steel bottom metal with inside-the-guard release button and a wonderfully-tuned trigger. The 23-inch barrel (24 inches long including the integral brake) remains provisioned for open sights and wears a sling swivel stud.
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Serial C6448884 is a highly refined Remington 700 LH barreled action. 338 Winchester Magnum, three position wing safety, banded, outstanding execution, 98 percentĪl & Roger Biesen custom left hand Remington Model 700. INQUIRE TO PURCHASE EMAIL TO A FRIEND VIEW MORE PHOTOSĪl & Roger Biesen left hand custom. Proceeds benefit the Boone and Crockett Club. The price is firm and layaway is available. Some would say it to be worth more than the rifle itself. Finally, a single live Winchester Super Speed. Original and copied photos include the Biesen’s with the rifle in progress as well as finished, along with a pair of O’Connor’s field photos with trophy rams.
INCLUSIONS: As assembled by the raffle winner and donor, a three-ring notebook approximately one-inch thick contains original and copied correspondence between the O’Connor family members, O’Connor biographer Eldon “Buck” Buckner, FNAWS, Roger Biesen, Wolfe Publishing ( Rifle Magazine), a final draft of Craig Boddington’s August, 2005 Gunnotes column on the rifle, original promotional flyers and a raffle ticket stub. The only aspect of the rifle not in perfect condition, it retains some 95 percent of the original finish.ĭIMENSIONS: Weight is 8.8 pounds, length-of-pull is 13.5 inches and the balance point is two inches behind the forward guard screw.ĬONDITION: New and unfired since completion. SCOPE: In order to create as exact a duplicate as possible, a Leupold Mountaineer 4x scope with a “straight crosshair” reticle rides in favored Tilden mounts. The butt plate is nothing short of spectacular, as it presents the bust of O’Connor’s 44-inch Dall’s ram taken in 1950 on Pilot Mountain in the Yukon Territory.
The steel grip cap continues the theme, surrounding a bust of one Jack’s finest Coues’ deer. The stock itself is dressed out with a steel bottom metal and grip cap, initial shield on the toe line (blank), cheek piece with shadow line and a Biesen trapdoor butt plate with widow’s peak.ĮNGRAVING: Engraved by Paula Biesen-Malicki (Roger’s daughter), the bottom metal is accented with delicate scroll. Additional features include a jeweled bolt body, extractor and follower, two-panel checkered bolt knob, recontoured and checkered bolt release and a recontoured (cloverleaf) tang. As it should be, the original is owned by the O’Connor family and destined to forever remain in their care.īuilt by Al & Roger Biesen, the Model 70 Featherweight barreled action is flawlessly stocked in French walnut, graced with a fine borderless 24 lines-per-inch checkering accented with fleurs and finished with an ebony forend tip. Month after month, year after year, in sunshine and in rain it puts its favorite load with the 130-grain Nosler bullet into a little group three inches high at a hundred yards.” The Biesen / O’Connor rifle offered here is a faithful reproduction of “No 2”. As O’Connor wrote in Sheep and Sheep Hunting (Winchester Press, 1974), The No.
270 Winchester rifles for the legendary writer. Those who are familiar with O’Connor’s writings will remember that Al Biesen stocked and customized two nearly-identical Winchester pre-64 Model 70 Featherweight. Donated to the Boone and Crockett Club by the raffle winner, it is presented through the Club’s Guns For Conservation Program. Imagined in 2002, commissioned in 2004 and raffled in 2006 this one-of-a-kind custom rifle is the result of superb cooperation between the O’Connor family, the Jack O’Connor Hunting Heritage and Education Center and the Idaho Chapter of FNAWS. 270 Winchester Jack O’Connor tribute, completed in 2006, engraved, pristine Biesen custom Winchester pre-64 Model 70 Featherweight.
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