Tricky one that, it was done fairly quietly when they changed the rules on pump actions, not sure if it was by design or inadvertantly. I certainly didn't clock the fact that it happened, until I...
Liked On: 01-10-2024, 09:08 PM
I have a Waltz die with multiple inserts and have tested hollow pointing to beyond sensible levels and then fired them into a 200L open top drum full of water to recover the projectiles (shot from...
Liked On: 25-09-2024, 08:37 PM
Interesting watch https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e-R-D_v0udk&ab_channel=BallisticHigh-Speed
Liked On: 20-09-2024, 09:46 PM
259460 This is a mauser target rifle of mine
Liked On: 18-09-2024, 09:36 PM
Rupert and I shot together in Otago, and I possibly had better manners by then. It was some Wellington branch guys who as I recall made snotty comments, maybe Brad Parkes, who wrote a fine book...
Liked On: 17-09-2024, 09:49 PM
Give the shoulder of the chamber and inside of the action a good clean, might be a build-up of detritus somewhere in there that the bolt is working against..
Liked On: 09-09-2024, 09:13 PM
My experience with the 25-06 has shown that the best accuracy tends to be close to max loads, currently I load for five different 25-06 rifles. In three of these rifles I found that the 100 grain...
Liked On: 06-09-2024, 10:22 AM
Yes anything wood blued I'd feel a bit dirty docking it that short. Anything stainless or synthetic I veiw as only functional and don't see any good reason to have a longer barrel. As there's not...
Liked On: 05-09-2024, 03:44 PM
no but I used to have a few beers with him in the old Royal hotel in Opotiki - no I say that about a fire poker out of practicality - a really top gunsmith once told me when I was trying to...
Liked On: 02-09-2024, 08:34 PM
good advice it may be a fancy fire poker or billy lifter
Liked On: 02-09-2024, 08:24 PM
You know I do have a life outside of this place and despite popular opinion the be all and end all decision doesn't lay solely at my discretion, hence if you use the "report" function instead of...
Liked On: 02-09-2024, 10:18 AM
Tone is invisible on the internet. No sarcasm was intended.
Liked On: 30-08-2024, 07:54 PM
Nice controlled and factual answer to what could have been taken as a sarcastic question. All bullet wounds hurt and can do considerable damage, even 224 fmj, which a lot of people seem to write off...
Liked On: 30-08-2024, 07:54 PM
Wow, you are I believe quite correct - a bigger caliber bullet would likely not have lodged in the tibia it would have passed straight through. I take my hat of to you though, you have experience...
Liked On: 30-08-2024, 01:03 PM
The only logical way forward for this conversation, is for Hermitage to shoot himself in the other leg with a 308. That way we have a balanced data set for Gimp :thumbsup: Get to it chap!
Liked On: 30-08-2024, 09:28 AM