Insane with impatience.....

I'm trying, really hard, to build an ultralight mountain rifle, based on an Axis.
Right now, in my possession, I have the action & trigger.
The stock, a Boyd's Classic hugely modified, is away getting dipped in Kryptek camo film.
The barrel is still in the machine shop (instructions were 'I want a 6.5 Swede, 20" long, as light as you can machine out without me losing my face') & the trigger is in the vice being polished, smoothed & lightened you within an inch of it's life.
The bolt is with my bestest friend who is, by sheer coincidence (honest), the best machinist I've ever met, getting a few parallel flutes chipped into it.
Once I have the barrel I still have to head space the rascal & send it off for cerakoting.

All I want to do is shoot the thing!

I have many, many rifles in my safe, but this will be the first I've built from absolute scratch, for a specific reason ( Aoudad, New Mexico, 2016 to start with) & all I want to shoot is this!

Oh impatience, thou foul temptress!!

It only gets worse.....

Good post Rob. Many of us feel your pain.

Welcome to your new addiction.
It's all downhill from here.



My advice would be heavy drinking. It may help relieve some of the frustration from waiting.

Sounds like a cool project and will be worth the wait!

Sounds like a one-of-a-kind project!

Just as an extra kick inna nards, this is my barrel.....
http://images.tapatalk-cdn.com/15/06...4a3d4725f9.jpg
It's in government funded limbo!

So it was scheduled for Wednesday delivery and nothing has been updated since Monday?.... uh oh..... Time to walk away from the computer and mix a stiff drink I think.

Well, the good news is that it arrived today safe & sound. The bad news is that I'll still have to wait another week for the stick to come back, plus a week for cerakote on the barrel, action & scope.
However the GREAT news is that I drew my antelope tag for Wyoming, so I have a reason to get it done asap!