Insane with impatience.....

[robtattoo]

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!!

[Hotolds442]

It only gets worse.....

[Robinhood]

Good post Rob. Many of us feel your pain.

[fgw_in_fla]

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.

[03mossy]

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

[DrThunder88]

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

[robtattoo]

Just as an extra kick inna nards, this is my barrel.....

It's in government funded limbo!

[03mossy]

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.

[robtattoo]

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!