Recent content by baxterb

Very nice. What OAL are you using?

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Chuck is really an incredible guy. Nice as hell, smart, amazing hunter, and a great writer for the market. He was a few credits short of a masters in English and left to pursue writing. I think he had enough evidence he had the writing chops and pursued his passion.

thanks @michael458 - figured you’d have them! Added…2015!!!!!! Holy hell!

@michael458 do you still have the results from the 220 gr Solid Hornadys I sent you way back when? As I remember they either veered heavily or left the box. Been a while!

Winchesters were never made with a magazine box connected (i.e. one-piece) with the bottom metal like a Mauser. The mag box is sandwiched between the bottom metal (not the floorplate) and the action. Here are three Model 70 mag boxes, the two on the left are Pre-64 (note the ridges in the...

Krikey that guy is good. Very nice work!

You aren’t going to just rechamber to 375 RUM - you’ll be throwing money into a deep hole by the time you find a smith keen enough to do it because the action will also need a hell of a lot of work. The 375 Weatherby is the only bigger thing I would do, but if you need more POWAH, make sure you...

That indeed says a lot if Corbett’s name was left after independence. Thanks for the info! When I was in Kenya I saw plenty of roads and places that had been renamed - glad Corbett’s survive. On another note, an old friend of my uncle named Peter Goutiere, who was a pilot for Pan-Am and also...

It is nice to know local people still think enough about him to preserve things.

That sounds like cultural shift to me.

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very nice! A family friend used to raise buffalo in Va...when it was butchering time he used that exact rifle - "One behind the ear" he told me, to do the work. It will serve you well.

A Talley 1X will move the front ring rearward a little bit, I would suggest that since not only will you need to consider spacing on the scope, but also eye relief. I use the 1X on ALL my Winchesters

Call Lon Paul and ask him to work his magic