Recent content by Jack Stevens

Very nice! Just curious since you mentioned the Barnes original 300grn SP bullet ... Do you happen to know what the jacket thickness is on those?

^ ^ ^ Looks like a young Clint Eastwood. I knew Clint liked cigars but didn’t know he was a connoisseur of WR rifles.

That’s not the only premise for QD rings or QD ring-mounts. If the scope goes wonky internally (reticles can and do break), or the scope is broken from being dropped or otherwise mishandled, you can still save your hunt by removing it and shooting the Big Dangerous critters with the iron...

Got to this thread late but .... On my AHR .404 Jeff, built on a CZ 550 Magnum action, I use Alaskan Arms QD ring mounts. They've held zero perfectly with typical .404 recoil. AA offers rings and mounts for other makes of rifles too, like Rugers. You might email him directly and see if he's...

Ah meh, ^ ^ ^ it looks okay. I'd remove the scope and retrofit the rear bridge internally with a "pop-up" ghost-ring sight. (Wayne @ AHR and, I believe Lon Paul used to offer that mod on CZ 550 Mag actions). Then, with a fiber optic front sight, I'd zero the ghost ring with one load at...

Very nice! What does it weigh as shown?

“So many variables” is right. My rifle for DG, like Buff, is my 10.2lb AHR .404 with a 23” Douglas tube. But for PG, and generally anything else on the menu that’s not DG, my ‘light’ rifle for Africa is an old school Remmy model 660, chambered in .350 Rem Mag. Ballistically, it’s the twin of...

Holy pre-Covid necro thread! OP started this in August of 2019. Nonetheless, I’ll play. Below is my sole pic of a Westley Richard’s ‘Best Grade’ .425 rifle. Guessing the barrel is at least 26”. It’s the most elegant-looking piece of DG field artillery I’ve ever seen.

This was a conversion on an existing RSM, yes?

Looking forward to seeing your pics with the scope removed. Also weight of unloaded rifle sans scope would be helpful. Given the actual field distances at which the 500 Jeff was intended to drop Big Dangerous Critters, a scope is unnecessary and just extra weight.

I'm late to this thread so I'll just add that if this were my build I'd keep it simple on the sights. Skip putting a scope on it. If not some sort of ghost ring sight on the rear bridge (like the old BRNO 602s), the rear sight would be an express type with one standing leaf only, regulated...

Not a fan of the 6.5 ManBun. Yeah, low ‘T’ Gen-Zers love it but who cares? :rolleyes: I watch them shoot 5 rounds of the 6.5 MB, and then I hand them my Remington M660, chambered for the manly-man .350 Remington Magnum. Jeez-louise, after firing just 3 rounds they’re calling it quits like...

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Precision shooters know that the first "clean-bore" shot with a cold barrel will hit to a different POI than next, say, 4 shots, even if you let the barrel cool first between those next shots. The difference might be smaller than matters for "hunting" accuracy, but it will be there. Now, let...

Yeah, the wide selection of .375 bullets really makes the cartridge versatile. I haven’t pulled them out in a while but years ago I made up some “deer loads” using (as I recall) 200grn or 210grn SP bullets over Varget. I downloaded them to .30-06 “deer” velocities until settling on a load that...