Recent content by leslie hetrick

i have a browning upland special in 20 ga thats very light and gets used alot on long walking hunting trips. pad is for lenth of pull, not recoil.

the group of men i shoot with at one of out sporting clays shoots. three brownings, one remington and one CZ. both the men with the remington and CZ have gone to brownings.

well they get free ammo and shotguns, around here you see more brownings by far than any other shotguns at the skeet-trap-sporting clays shoots. my pet singles trap shotgun is a bt-100 that i have fired over 40,000 shells thru it. i only have made one repair, replacing the firing pin myself at a...

well the boars liked and used the 7x57 in the boar wars and im sure they also used any rifles they could get, including .303 brit rifles. i lean towards the 7x57.

very nice, but to nice for me. i like them with honest wear with out abuse.

i love to hunt them and spend more time hunting then than deer.

i have encountered them on hunting trips. i leave them alone, unless its around camp where children-dogs might run into them. then they get a free trip to snake heaven.

don,t piss into the wind, don,t stand on supermans cape or pick up anything that can kill you.

if it came thru from ruger that way, the QC inspector must have been blind.

i have quite a few older rifles and they all show wear from honest use and no abuse. i hunt them too and reload for them all. i only require a good bore as i shoot cast bullets in them.

years ago i took two mule deer out west at a little over 200 yards standing broadside, resting on a back pack prone. i was using a rem pump carbine 3006 with 165 gr nosler bullets at 2650 fps. my BIL and i made a good stalk and the 3006 did them in with one double lung shot each. the 7mm BC...

imr-4895 and imr-4350 does very well in my milsurp swedish mausers( 94-96-38,s) running at about 2300-2400 fps with 139-140 gr bullets.

i also use N-560 in my cz 550 in 6.5x55 with 139-140 gr bullets. the load i shoot is pretty heavy, but safe in the cz 550. i have shot 2.25" three shot groups at 300 yards from the bench. the bottom rifle is my cz 550 in 6.5x55, the top rifle is a cz 550 in .375 H&H.

my latest 1896 swedish 6.5x55 mauser in mint condition is a 1901 carl gustafs, every part marked is 97491 inspected by O.G. was bought at the york pa. gun show several months ago. as it was being put up on the sellers table, i picked it up and ask how much and was told 550.00 usd out the door...

my 24/47 98 mauser is ok. it was arsenal refurbed and looks new. it will close on a shell dropped into the chamber however.