Thread: Real gunsmiths

@Happy - People have custom rifles (one can spend from nearly zip customising a Tikka T3 to tens of thousands on a blued steel and walnut masterpiece) built for a variety of reasons. Its perfectly fine to treat your firearms as tools, but like any belief, its a mistake to assume everyone thinks the same. My custom rifles go hunting all over NZ, in the toughest conditions, I don't feel I have to baby them although I respect those who like to build "safe queens". For what its worth I run a 7x64 to, it may be old but my one pokes out 162 A-Maxs into 12-20mm groups as regular as clockwork at 2820 fps, I can take it to 2950 fps but the accuracy goes off a little. I don't think that gives anything up to much less than a 7mm Mag.

I've used this saying before here but it bears repeating, "for somebody who doesn't have the price of a Rubens original, there may be some merit in a Playboy centerfold" (Philip C Bolger). However its never a good idea to disparage someone else's tastes.