CZ550 375H&H to 458 Lott started today

Did you strip down this stock and refinish it? If so what was the final coat? It looks awesome to me!! Thank you for sharing this build.
 
Did you strip down this stock and refinish it? If so what was the final coat? It looks awesome to me!! Thank you for sharing this build.
Not yet. Still wearing the factory finish. The rifle had been shot very little, if at all, before I got it as a 375H&H, and I had only shot it at my backyard range, so the stock has very few dings or marks on it.
With Kevin full bedding the action and adding the pillars, this rifle can be taken down and reassembled with no change in POI; tested and proven many times now. I'll do the same for the matching 375 so they can both fit in a Pelican 1700 for the eventual trip overseas.
 
Kevin's putting an ebony forend and grip cap on my CZ 550 in 500 Jeffery. Going with a darker finish as well. It shoots great, just "dolling it up". This is how it looked before the "cosmetic surgery"

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Not yet. Still wearing the factory finish. The rifle had been shot very little, if at all, before I got it as a 375H&H, and I had only shot it at my backyard range, so the stock has very few dings or marks on it.
With Kevin full bedding the action and adding the pillars, this rifle can be taken down and reassembled with no change in POI; tested and proven many times now. I'll do the same for the matching 375 so they can both fit in a Pelican 1700 for the eventual trip overseas.
If you plan on leaving the scopes installed or detached and in the rifle case, it could be a tight fit with the 1700. The best way I can think of doing it would be to put the barreled actions diagonal with the stocks in the corners.
 
@Woodcarver did you mange to finish this yet? I’m interested to see it in the 1700 pelican case. If you could please post a couple of pics I’d really appreciate it as I’m planning on doing the same.
 
@Woodcarver did you mange to finish this yet? I’m interested to see it in the 1700 pelican case. If you could please post a couple of pics I’d really appreciate it as I’m planning on doing the same.
No, still waiting in the safe. All my spare time has been spent in KS putting an addition on my son's house. Hopefully I'll find some time this winter to work on it and the 375.
 

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schwerpunkt88 wrote on Robmill70's profile.
Morning Rob, Any feeling for how the 300 H&H shoots? How's the barrel condition?
mrpoindexter wrote on Charlm's profile.
Hello. I see you hunted with Sampie recently. If you don't mind me asking, where did you hunt with him? Zim or SA? And was it with a bow? What did you hunt?

I am possibly going to book with him soon.
Currently doing a load development on a .404 Jeffrey... it's always surprising to load .423 caliber bullets into a .404 caliber rifle. But we love it when we get 400 Gr North Fork SS bullets to 2300 FPS, those should hammer down on buffalo. Next up are the Cutting Edge solids and then Raptors... load 200 rounds of ammo for the customer and on to the next gun!
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