An AR 22 upper, I put together with a scope. In 2021. Still dunno if it shoots. One of these days..

 

Oh wow where do I start?!🤣 I've still gotta finish the bedding on my savage axis 223...it's kinda like a 22😁 then I have three rifles with the Oh so scary black stocks that are going to get painted in the next week upper 80s lower 90s with plenty of direct sunlight to cook that paint right in there good an tight...but there's that honey do list around here somewhere I keep misplacing

 

Well Fyerpower x I surely have a TC barrel or two from our Specialty Pistol years I never got around to getting into. A octagon 1st gen 256 Win Mag Contender barrel comes immediately to mind. Only had it for 20 plus years.

 

I'm guilty of that too...have gone mostly to carbines for my TC's, but still have a bunch of pistol barrels i seldom shoot & should do something with more often. Had a lot of redundant barrels too....in .44mag i ended up with 10", 12", and 14" barrels...and i dont shoot .44's much any more.

Sold a nice .256 years ago, i had a Virgin Valley 12" fluted quick twist in .256mag; i replaced the extractor with one from a .223 and made cases out of resized & trimmed .221fireball cases ...that brass lasted forever, since fireball handles 50K PSI fine, and .256's run much milder.

 

I have too many half finished projects or finished but not fired... as to that 917m2...finish it, mine shoots as well as any of my .17m2's...just a bit heavy.

 

Is that the factory Marlin stock? It's a beautiful rifle. Mine is blued with a traditional wood stock.

 

My embarrassing longest running project is not a rimfire, or even a cartridge firearm.

It's a 58 caliber LH transitional (American) Jaeger flintlock from parts, that I've been "working on" since before the turn of the century.
The parts are all top notch and expensive, but the wrench in the works came when I realized that my Pecatonica RH Jaeger stock wasn't going to allow a LH cheekpiece. That sent me into the depths of ML builder depression that I've never really recovered from. I'm frozen with indecision whether to eliminate a cheekpiece entirely (not very common on the originals) or try to Rube Goldberg a cheekpiece by carefully sawing off the RH cheekpiece and hide gluing it on the other side, which seems to have FAIL written all over it. The stock is a great chunk of curly maple (that's the "American" giveaway).
I've already done a lot of the hard or detailed metal and wood work, so once I get over my psychological impasse, it should come together pretty quick. Unfortunately, what artistic gifts I had seem to have largely evaporated along with my equilibrium, so I'm apprehensive about creating a bubba'd atrocity.
All I need is time . . . . . . . and gumption . . . . . . . and talent. . . . . . . .

 

I've got a 6.8 SPC contender barrel (23") that I can't recall ever firing
I get so hung up on wildcats and Ackley chambers that the simple and effective ones just don't get my attention
I guess I'll take it to the range next time

 

Years ago i had MGM build a 20" stainless 6.8 in a lightweight tapered carbine....and for the most part did nothing with it.
After a few years i sold it or traded it (dont recall which) to another guy from the Specialty Pistols group, and he worked with it, got it shooting great, took a few deer with it, and likes it quite a bit. Kinda kick myself for not spending more time with that barrel.

I'm knee-deep in assorted ackleys, and other wildcats in TC's...wonderful addiction aint it?

 

I fiddly-farted around with a 551a1 for about a decade before I decided it was ready to shoot. Same with an SLR104UR. I’ve had variants of others in the past, so I wasn’t worried about them not performing. But I consider them to be definitive versions and I wanted them to be just so.