In the 70's I found a new Tradewinds Husky 5000 for $137. It was a 7mm rem mag. The trigger was horrid.Canjar made me one.Fixed that!
The reciever appears to be the same.Lines of the stock,very similar.No black forend tip.A nice semi-schnabel.
That was a nice hunting rifle.I used it many years. Light,for a wood and steel rifle.
It had no stock re-enforcing cross screws. And it had a cast alloy guard /mag box.
The 7mm Rem Mag presented enough recoil.there was a failure.The mag box was fitted with generous,easy to manufacture clearance between the forward face of the mag box and the wood behind the recoil lug.For rifles with recoil,the mag box should be closely fitted or glassed to support that wood. The bottom metal should be fitted to transmit the recoil into strong wood all the way back to the lower tang. Unlike the wood behind the upper tang,the wood at the lower tang is well supported.
The other issue,no cross bolts ,come into play because under recoil,the slabs of wood on either side of the receiver want to bow outward. Thats a problem because the grain structure of the wood behind the receiver recoil lug is encouraged to split. Which mine did. That allowed some setback, resulting in the classic split-off of wood behind the rear upper tang.
This stock inspired me to learn what a Mauser type wood stock needs to stand up to recoil. I found an article in John T Amber's Gun Digest that explained it,
The stock was badly hurt. Wait,it gets worse!
This was decades ago,I had far less experience.As a matter of fact,I decided to try my first AccraGlas job,DIY!!! With the old school,runny original Accra Glas !!
It actually went pretty well,up to a point. I found out its a really,really bad idea to pull on the trigger guard to remove the bottom metal from a glass bed job. Especially with an alloy part. The rear tang area released just fine,but the front guard screw boss needed to pull straight out. It could not "rock" out. There is a cross pin for the hinged floorplate behind the front guard screw, That makes a perfect weak spot to snap the alloy guard in two.
Yes. I did that.
The alloy guard had a unique profile. More wood was removed from the stock to accomodate it. A standard commercial guard would not work.
So,I had made a mess of things. Broken/repaired stock and broken bottom metal. It went to a dusty corner a number of years. Till I needed a "volunteer" receiver.
I used my moldmaker techniques and a surface grinder to square and true all critical surfaces.
I used a MOA drawing of the Leupold Boone and Crocket reticle and ballistic software to design a load that matched the reticle (under my typical altitude,etc) to 600 yds. That was a 30-338 launching a 200 gr Accubond at 2900 fps.
Lilja provide the #3 barrel and Elliot the reamer.
I put it in a 20 oz Hi-Tec Specialties blind magazine stock with a Rem 700 ADL trigger Guard.
It wears a Vari X 3 , power 3.5 to 10 with B+C reticle.
Its a pretty nice longer range rifle thats not bad to carry.
My initial test of the "tuned" load/reticle was one cold barrel shot at a lasered 500 yds at just over 7000 ft. I got an X-ring hit. It shoots good.
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