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Forrest F. Says he Chopped the Swede barrel, shortened the stock, ground bolt and had safety and bent bolt work from gunsmith.. From 9.5 to 7.5 pounds with Burris 6X scope.Cut Yugo stock, ground bolt and safety. From 8.5 to 7.5 pounds. Both are a joy to shot and use on the hunt.

Stacey R. says This one is from one of the "Gal's". We can build 'em to ya know. LOL After a long cold northeast winter.... brrrrrr! I've finally finished my K.Kale Turk sporter. This project started much as any with a plain vanilla 8x57 milsurp thunderstick. About a half an hour in the shop stripped away all that wasn't necessary. A call to Richard's Microfit had the Dual Grip Thumbhole stock in Coral Reef laminate on it's way. While that was in route, my local gunsmith... Big Sky Firearms mounted up a Brownell's Barrel in 7x57 Stock in hand he then glass bedded the action and floated the barrel. I did the contour, fit & finish on the stock using Birchwood Casey Tru-Oil and Rick at Big Sky then drilled & tapped for Redfield mounts, polished & blued the metal and mounted up the BSA 4-16x50 target scope. Being the impatient type, I had to take it out on the first somewhat warm day and managed to coble out a 5 shot group of 3" at 100 yards with the military trigger. Well, we all know that just won't do... so I had him install the double set trigger you see in the last pic. We're measuring the pull in grams :-) Just need some time and a nice day to see how close we are to sub 1 MOA

Paul F. says... 1909 carl gustav. barrel bobbed and crowned at 21 inches, brownell's bolt handle and leaf safety and redfield one-piece mount and rings professionally installed under the care of the previous owner. i mucho slimmed and trimmed a mistmaching mil-surp swede stock to 25 ounces, counting the boyd's composite buttplate, walnut filler for the heel protector notch, and birch disk hole filler. striped with the world famous propane torch feathering method. floated the barrel. finished with a rub-in poly. wal-mart trascho 4x (all i could afford at the time) mounted. first 3-shot group after re-finishing the stock was 3 shots at 100 yards into 9/16ths inch with winchester factor 140-grain hunting ammo. used same to kill a deer this winter when the stock was still a club. weight as seen is 6.5 pounds. considering a choate syn stock so i can drop the factory triggerguard/mag. first up, though, will be a better piece of glass. in keeping with style and age of this lovely little swedish lass, i'll probably go with a weaver steel tube el paso in k2.5 or k4, or a modern weaver in k6, k4 or k2.5. love the site, especially the reader pics. abiding in Him, Paul