Recent content by MikeDeltaFoxtrot

I am curious to know if anyone has seen a Leupold scope fail due to recoil. I have put a bunch of their scopes through a lot of punishment in the woods, rivers, and mountains, and I have never had one fail or even lose zero. Swaro has nice glass. I have no experience as to their durability...

Had a nice time in Melborne. I drove out the Healesville Sanctuary. Saw some Koalas, a platypus, and a Tazmanian devil. Also got the boots.

Thanks for all the great replies. I love this forum. We are en route now, arriving in Melbourne Wednesday.

I am about to leave on a quick trip to Australia. I will be primarily spending time in Melbourne and Sydney, and tragically I won't have time for any hunting. Are there are cool outfitters, sporting goods stores, gun shops, or similar destinations I should check out? Any interesting...

If you read my post, you'll see that I did in fact shoot my test loads over a chronograph. This is not my first rodeo. I am hoping someone else has personal experience loading 416 Rigby with IMR 4350. Based on the dearth of responses so far, It appears that is not the case. I agree that...

I would be in a for a few tickets as well.

So I am working on some loads for my new Ruger RSM chambered in 416 Rigby. I will hunt with it next summer at the earliest, so I am in the preliminary stages. I bought some 400 grain Hornady Dangerous Game Solids, and some Hornady brass. I consulted the Hornady manual, and worked up a load...

I can't really come up with three. The overwhelming majority of my big game hunting has been with 300 Winchester Magnum, in one of two rifles. I have also killed a fair number of white tail deer with a 50 caliber muzzle loader. I took my .375 H&H to Africa, and hunted with it two days. I...

I am surprised you didn’t need to crimp. Have you had any problems with your bullets slipping forward in the case under recoil for the rounds in the magazine?

Do you find that it relates in any way to the year of production? Based on the ones I looked it, it seemed like earlier production guns tended to have better wood, but I don't have a big enough sample to say for sure.

Here is the Leupold VX 3i 1.5-5x20 mounted on my RSM in Warne QD rings. ETA: Please pardon my messy workbench.

By way of update I purchased an unfired RSM in 416 Rigby. Picked it up today. Need to mount the scope and load a few rounds. I hope to shoot it this weekend.