Thread: Gun Porn, show off your new toys

Sweet. Andrew did my load development for me so I'm sorted also

Originally Posted by von tempsky fan

Mate,I will take both , its more culling than hunting!

Sounds like fun mate

Is that considered accurate?

Haha, from what I've seen of 10/22s

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Mate you should of brought a marlin 795 for a fraction of the price for way better accuracy and easier resale.

Originally Posted by von tempsky fan

Mate you should of brought a marlin 795 for a fraction of the price for way better accuracy and easier resale.

Yup.

Top row Marlin 795 and bottom is Quad with me just dicking around at 45m? 1inch circles.
Added ?bonus? of the quad is you get @BRADS nagging you to sell it to him. This is shift14's Quad though.

Yea thought about the 795, I hate to admit it but I thought the carbon fibre barrel looked cool 😃 and don't plan on selling it.
And everyone I talked to told me how shit all 22s are. Classic case of I'll tell you what not to buy but no one could recommd a good one to buy.

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Fair enough, modding things is fun.

The latest in the search for the perfect hunting rifle @BRADS .....

Sako 85 in 7mm SAUM
Mcmillan hunters edge stock
Pac nor tube at 20" inches
Fluted Bolt
DPT Can
NEAR manufacturing rail
Nightforce ultralite rings
March 2.5-25x42

Shoots the Nosler 150 LR accubonds really nicely

Camo wsm, did you look at any other options (rail brands)for your rail on the 85 before you went with the near??

Originally Posted by matagouri

Camo wsm, did you look at any other options (rail brands)for your rail on the 85 before you went with the near??

I looked at the waitaki ones but after talking to guys who have these I made my mind up they are really
well made

Originally Posted by camo wsm

The latest in the search for the perfect hunting rifle @BRADS .....

Sako 85 in 7mm SAUM
Mcmillan hunters edge stock
Pac nor tube at 20" inches
Fluted Bolt
DPT Can
NEAR manufacturing rail
Nightforce ultralite rings
March 2.5-25x42

Shoots the Nosler 150 LR accubonds really nicely

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Scopes sitting rather high with the rail and rings, how are you going to manage that?

I ask as im tossing up mounting options for a sako currently but keep reverting back to optilocks

Nobody has yet managed to convince me that well fitting optilocks are in any way inferior to military fashion picitinny rings and rails, particularly on normal calibre rifles.

They have a better fit potential for sub 50mm scopes, lower weight or close than rails and rings, ascetically cleaner, no fitting hassles, self centering and non marking.

I prefer the one piece for weight and simplicity.

There is argument, if your scope choice is either large or long for alternatives, but outside that the objections to optilocks seem unfounded, I have never had problems with them, and the arguments for strength and reliabilty issues seem overstated.....

If you smash your rifle enough to move your scope, you have likely smashed your scope anyway.

It seems more a tactical fashion statement, than a solution to a problem that doesn't exist....

This opinion is worth precisely what was paid for it...... but thats just what I have found.....

Originally Posted by Sidney

Nobody has yet managed to convince me that well fitting optilocks are in any way inferior to military fashion picitinny rings and rails, particularly on normal calibre rifles.

They have a better fit potential for sub 50mm scopes, lower weight or close than rails and rings, ascetically cleaner, no fitting hassles, self centering and non marking.

I prefer the one piece for weight and simplicity.

There is argument, if your scope choice is either large or long for alternatives, but outside that the objections to optilocks seem unfounded, I have never had problems with them, and the arguments for strength and reliabilty issues seem overstated.....

If you smash your rifle enough to move your scope, you have likely smashed your scope anyway.

It seems more a tactical fashion statement, than a solution to a problem that doesn't exist....

This opinion is worth precisely what was paid for it...... but thats just what I have found.....

Waitaki rail and 34mm Roedale rings was 25% lighter than 34mm optilocks, rustproof, exactly the same height, and 20moa canted. If I had a 30mm scope I'd have simply gone for one piece optilocks.

Originally Posted by rogers.270

Scopes sitting rather high with the rail and rings, how are you going to manage that?

I ask as im tossing up mounting options for a sako currently but keep reverting back to optilocks

Not sure what you mean by manage It? as its fitted already I don't find it too high as its marginally higher than it was with
optilocks and is a perfect height for the new 52mm March that's on there now.