Show Your Custom Rifles With Granite Mountain Arms Actions

[JD Noblin]

I bet the members of this forum have some fantastic custom rifles build on the Granite Mountain Arms action. Post up your GMA rifle and tell us a little about it.

Below is what I call my "heavy plains game" rifle in 338 Norma Magnum. It's built on a GMA African Magnum action with a 24" McGowan barrel milled into a sporter octagon barrel. The wood is Turkish Walnut and the action finish is rust blue with screw heads, extractor claw and trigger in nitre-blue. The bolt shroud, pistol grip cap, and rings are color-cased. The action has accent engraving and some minor gold lines. This rifle shoots a 250gr Northfork soft at 3015fps. I've taken a variety of plains game with it with 99% of the animals dropping to the shot, including eland.

 

[krish]

Nice looking rifle.
Krish

 

[VertigoBE]

Very nicely executed. Congratulations!

 

[Hunting Hitman]

My matching set of GMA actions. 505 Gibbs & 375 H&H.

HH

 

[JD Noblin]

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My matching set of GMA actions. 505 Gibbs & 375 H&H.

HH

Those look great! Love the color-cased actions! Can you tell us more about the 505 and your hunts with it?

I don't own a 505 but am thinking about building one. My favorite safari writer is John A. Hunter and one of two cartridges he loved the most was a 505 Gibbs (the other being a 500 Nitro Express).

 

[uplander01]

Top is Dennis Olson 416 Rigby, serial #0096, action from the Prescott AZ location. Bottom unknown maker, very early rifle sold through Empire Rifles, East African Model, 500 Jeffery,pictured in Terri Weilands Book of Big Game Rifles.