New Stick - Sort of 338-06

[tammons]

Already had this 338 BBL, bought it here a while back for $90.
Flatback Action from Montana Bob and a great deal.
EGW scope base
Burris Extreme Rings.
Leupold 2-7x
Awsome deal on a texturized gray stock from Stangfish
Worked trigger
338-06 22" shaw bbl.

I think this entire rig with scope and all cost about $625.
Time to go swampin for hogs.

Already had this barrel on a SS action, but the other day swapped that action over to a 7mm magnum with CF and a Nikon 4-12X scope.
Sort of a 2 gun setup. 7mm mag and a heavy hitter.

Camo'd the stock. Down and dirty quick job.



Together

[stangfish]

Wow! That stock had a long way to go and in a short time got there.

[tammons]

Yeah I was surprised it got here so fast.

[LRJammer]

The 338-06 is an absolute sledge hammer! It will be devastating not just on pigs, but they make awesome elk medicine as well.

[tammons]

I had a 338-284 about 3-4 years ago. About the same as a 338-06 and I shot several hogs with it.
Just piles them up. Sledgehammer is right.
Loaded the 210 gr TTSX.

Traded it for a 375 Ruger.
Overkill to say the least.
Shot 2 with one bullet one day.

Shot a deer with the 338-06 a few weeks ago. Detuned 160 TTSX running at about 2850 and it blew a lung out the exit hole.

Probably will end up with a 416 Ruger or taylor barrel eventually.

[Great Wazoo]

I really like that camp job; how do you achieve that look?

[tammons]

The stock was already a dark gray. Black is good too, but I like this dark gray better.
I bought it here and it already had a dark gray texturized grip paint. Not sure what it is.

Camo Paint is Fusion, Tan and Olive.

Application is with a sea sponge but dont get a smooth one.
They come in bags so go to an art store and find a bag of the roughest looking ones you can find.

The one I used is roughly 3" long x 1.5 wide and rough.

Sprayed the paint onto a paper plate to make a pretty heavy puddle. Started with tan, in a diagonal pattern around the stock.
Let that dry. Did the same but offset a bit with green.

The key is not to get to heavy handed.

You sort of dip the sponge in and get a heavy coat of paint on it and sort of roll it across the stock in the direction of the pattern and repeat.

[Great Wazoo]

Thanks, I will have to give that a try!