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You realize of course that this is not true, right? ;)

Hmmm... This is not a "goat" this is the devil... Notice the star of Remphan / Moloch under the woman... It's a free country, but totting such a gun around makes a very peculiar statement... You could not even gift this rifle to me, unless a sanding pad came with it to erase this incantation...

Yep, I too had my linseed hand-finished Bastogne walnut period :love: 10 non-stop rain days in a Newfoundland moose fly camp turned a multi thousand dollars Griffin & Howe hand crafted and hand finished custom stock into a grey warped plank :eek: Another time, during a cold Pennsylvania deer...

Probably already posted, but happy to respond :) My own .375 H&H is a semi-weight barrel (19 mm, 25.6", iron sights, 1,708 gram / 3 lb. 12.2 oz.) so my .375 H&H weighs the same as my .458 Lott (thinner but longer barrel), which does not bother me, and is a delight to shoot, but a standard...

The only functional difference between steel and alloy receivers is rifle weight. As detailed with actual figures in previous posts, the steel receiver adds 1 lb. 5 oz. which is appreciated with heavy recoil calibers. You can tame recoil even further with an easily removable 12 oz. or 16 oz...

Ah, but it was hard for me to abandon the romance of double square bridge, claw extractor, big Mauser system actions, and it took me 2 more years after that to abandon double rifles, so I can feel your pain :cry: :eek::cool::ROFLMAO: All I will say --- just to help :E Rofl: --- is that I have...

Great! Happy to be able to help :) It is indeed amazing what a little bit of grease in the right spot can do (y) Yep, putting the spring back on is always "interesting". More than once did I have it bounce all the way to the ceiling (not to self: do not have your face over it!) :E Rofl:

Here are a Win 70 .300 Wby with 26" barrel and a R8 .300 Wby with a 650 mm / 25.59" barrel. As previously indicated, the difference in overall length is 3". I would expect this to remain consistent in other caliber groups with shorter barrels. I stand by my earlier post that the barrel...

Based on my own experience, this has probably nothing to do with the ball detent system ;) The operating principle of this safety is that when it is engaged, it cams back the firing pin away from the sear, so when the safety is released, the firing pin comes back to rest on the sear. The...

I have been wearing virtually nothing but these in the heat of Arizona, and they are fashionable enough that they are perfectly acceptable in business-casual environments. In addition, they are incredibly resistant. I got my first ones for a few dollars from Sam's Club (of all places!) 10 years...

Is it a safety or is it a cocker / decocker ? There is simply no two ways about it, the Blaser R8 (or Krieghoff double rifle) "safety" is not something that you slide effortlessly off as you swing, like on a Parker 20 gauge quail shotgun, or Holland & Holland Royal or Purdey double rifle...

And this is where generally things go sideways... In their eagerness to make their point (in this case, shooting elk with 6mm ARC), folks start arguing with reality... In this case, the arguing is that the bones of a 600 to 1,000 lbs. elk are not thicker and stronger than the bones of a 100 to...

Ayayayayayayaya................................ Another one of these........................ Did you know that there is a documented case of a kid in Africa during the golden years in Kenya killing a Buffalo with a .22 LR? True story, told in one of the PH biographies (cannot remember which...

This is all a question of personal appreciations, hence my opinion has no more value than an opposite opinion, but in very simple terms and rounded numbers, the main 'advantage' of the .378 Wby over the .375 H&H is driving a 300 gr bullet at 2,900+ fps rather than 2,500+ fps (2,600 fps with hot...

A few thoughts, Schüler Jumbo ... As much as the .378 Wby is by any rational analysis a flawed design, and is responsible for the Weatherby dismal reputation in Africa, the .460 Wby actually has a small but very loyal following amongst old hand PHs with extensive DG experience. This is a fact...