Nick Harvey passed away yesterday.
https://sportingshooter.com.au/news/...er-and-hunter/
I recall reading his articles when I first started hunting in the early '70s.
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Nick Harvey passed away yesterday.
https://sportingshooter.com.au/news/...er-and-hunter/
I recall reading his articles when I first started hunting in the early '70s.
Me too used to read all the Australian Shooter mags still have one of his reloading manuals
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RIP, this man knew how to achieve the best from most calibers, still have his original reloading manual. Some offered loads would scare H&S experts today.
First reloading manual I ever had & still got it. RIP Nick....
Bit of a legend that's for sure.
Definitely my most used reloading manual that's for sure!
Rip Nick!
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Yeh, never recommended soft loads..Quote:
Originally Posted by tetawa
I read many of his magazine articles, a legend particularly in Aussie shooting circles.
His articles were always well written, informative and thoughtful on whatever subject he was putting pen to paper on.
RIP Nick.
Yes I always enjoyed his articles easy to understand and informative just like our own Graham Henry
Was wondering if he was going to be like Keith Richard's...y'know at the beginning and end of creation...
Jokes aside he had a good innings. Go well sir.
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There was a BSA 284 for sale here inspired by one of his builds, he was obviously ahead of his time in his thinking.
I was going to say the same about his lightweight 284 bsa into an mpi stock if I remember well.
Rip. I still use his manual regularly.
Yeah it was a nice looking rifle, I had the magazine article about it. Stock was from Corporal Trading if I recall correctly.Quote:
Originally Posted by Friwi
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RIP to a transtrasman legend .i devoured copies of aussie sporting shooter in my younger days and always read ,even reread his sage advice.
still have the odd copy floating about in my archive too.
I started buying Sporting Shooter mags long before I was old enough to get my FA licence. Nick taught me a hell of a lot about guns ammo ballistics and hunting ethics.
Hot barrels sir.
Greetings,
Nick's 1980 Manual was one of my first and together with Cyril Waterworth's 1972 volume the only source of data for AR2201 which we used for everything.
GPM.
RIP, you have done the shooting community proud, your knowledge of things guns and shooting would be hard to compete with. A lot of knowledge gone with your passing.
nick harvey was australasias anwser to americas jack oconnor and elmer kieth and much more relatable
The hours i spent pawing thru my uncles australian outdoors after the american magazines.
two things i,lnever forget is his 7mm harvey magnum based on the 284 winchester and his bedding of the action and up to 25 mm of the barrel he claimed rifles so bedded didnt change point of impact with different loads..also his love of the short barrelled remington mohawk in 308
god bye old mentor may all the old greats greet you as a equal and friend
GSP, i'm pretty sure his 7 mm Harvey magnum was the little known 6.5 Rem magnum necked up to 7mm. He was early onto the .284 Win when he re-barrelled a medium length BSA with the tube and chamber. He was pretty genuine and help a lot of blokes get a bit further towards addicted.
your dead right i had my wires crossed it was his article on the 284 winchester bieng better than it is if loaded to bolt action chamber lengths rather than the semis and lever guns, so utiising the extra capacity of the case. is col allison still kickingQuote:
Originally Posted by Dicko
Yes, a wonderful mentor for so many, myself included. Other favourite rifles in his safe were a 6mm Remington and a .257 Roberts, getting their original review each and then some years later at least one more re-write/update. I used to enjoy his turn of phrase. "Treading hard on the heels" was one of these that he used quite frequently when comparing a load in a cartridge under review to a more commonplace round, such as the 120gr in the .257 Roberts when compared to the same weight in a 25–06, or in turn to the 130gr in the 270. Another was the use of "moribund in the marketplace" in reference to cartridges like the aforementioned 6.5mmRM and at one stage the .284Win too, prior to its miracle recovery. I never bothered much with reading about hunting sambar or calling up foxes in Sporting Shooter; the value to me of any issue was what its esteemed Technical Editor had to say on the cartridge of the month. His Practical Reloading Manual was a definitive work, and got me underway with reloading at a time when all my information was coming only from books. His Handbook for Hunters and Shooters was also excellent for someone in the early stages of the sport, and looking through this just now I’d still say that you’d still be hard pressed to find a better introduction. Nick Harvey had that special skill of being a writer able to combine the technical and practical into an enjoyable reading format.
Nick will be missed, he was still writing articles in the last ( march ) issue of the sporting shooter which I get every month. I wrote to him last year for advice about 44mag primers leaking , he wrote back and solved the problem . He remembered the test he did in 1970 of a Winchester model 100 in 243 but he used one in 284 for awhile . He always gave a good reviews of new rifles out with good description of the action ect.His practical reloading column every month was a good read.
I just picked up on this sad news in the .257R thread in Hunting. I'm another who admits to learning a lot from Nick Harvey & had great respect for the depth of his knowledge & his ability to debunk commonly held shooting myths. RIP Nick.