The best way to check a barrel is "munted" is clean it and shoot it. Some barrels look ptistine but shoot like shit. Others look like shit but shoot very well.
Liked On: 15-06-2024, 08:10 PM
Have got a spare BSA butt plate you can have free if you want it. I always fit small Pachmayr recoil pads.
Liked On: 15-06-2024, 08:10 PM
These old tarts can be quite good shooters but . . . . Unless they have sentimental value to the owner not many people seem to want them, apart maybe the odd specialist collector, and they always...
Liked On: 15-06-2024, 08:09 PM
Take to it with some steel wool and inox. Strip that gungy paint off it and see what it looks like after that. Definitely worth a go.
Liked On: 15-06-2024, 08:09 PM
I have given this old boy the royal treatment 252739
Liked On: 15-06-2024, 08:07 PM
If anyone was wondering what a 75eldm does pushed hard, this is the damage at 150m, guessing ~3000fps impact velocity 252642 252643 Second shot came down through the shoulder and out just behind...
Liked On: 15-06-2024, 08:06 PM
Trigger isn't too bad, it's actually better than the baikal rifle triggers it have felt. A bit heavy but not much creep, that's a problem for another day, I want to get this firing pin sorted then a...
Liked On: 15-06-2024, 08:06 PM
Most probably caused by someone wanting to lighten the trigger and have either adjusted the trigger and the sears have changed position. Or in worst case cenarios, someone has...
Liked On: 15-06-2024, 08:04 PM
If in reality you are shooting less than 10 boxes a year then buy it BUT if more then reloading would be worth considering however you will not save money reloading as you will find you will tend to...
Liked On: 15-06-2024, 06:57 PM
Same - that's why I've never been keen to try those MKM shirts... I can just about handle some of the higher quality finer merinos, if I force myself to ignore it, but mostly wool next to my skin...
Liked On: 14-06-2024, 09:17 PM
That is because the manufacturers make products that the average Joe public ask for. Spent 15+ years in the clothing industry and was always getting asked "Can you make it windproof" Course you can,...
Liked On: 14-06-2024, 09:17 PM
Well Done on the experiment; a very surprising result for me.Personally; my son & I tend to target the rainy weather to go hunting & ive tried different wool/merino combinations & hav found Macpac...
Liked On: 14-06-2024, 09:16 PM
And then you discovered women, and the benefits of using soap 'n water occasionally lol
Liked On: 14-06-2024, 09:16 PM
That’s nothing. I used to wear my old black shearing singlets so long my chest hairs grew through them. :)
Liked On: 14-06-2024, 09:15 PM
Pics of rifle scabbards prompted me to dig these out . I was two up on the XR . (Probably a 500, but my memory says 600?) A trip in to find a Thar 252348 My brand spanking Rem 700 classic...
Liked On: 13-06-2024, 08:58 PM