Recent content by PCC600

I think the 425WRs were intended to be fed by stripper clips . Not sure the 500J and the similar Schulers were intended to be loaded in that manner .

The only time I used a 500J it jammed on the first cartridge . The rifle was brand new and being offered for me to shoot and buy . Made by a very famous maker. I handed it to a renowned firearms author who was accompanying me . It jammed again . I passed on it . Hugely disappointing experience ...

A nice rifle and the VZ24 is a very good action but gee 7.5 lbs is light for a 425WR . The rifles made by WR normally ran circa 9.5 lbs and even 10lbs .

Yes I have this book . It is very helpful .

Yes I agree it is far too petite for a true Live Pidgeon gun. I was only commenting on what the original sales documents / history from Wm Powell have recorded . It would have come to Oz purely for duck and goose hunting or possibly some sort of clay target shooting.

I got this William Powell boxlock sxs 12g last year . Made in 1951 and sold to Australia . Case with all accessories , 2 sets of barrels quarter/ half choke and three quarters/ full . Bores/ barrels are perfect . It is a Pidgeon gun with side clips on a Webley & Scott action with a blind Scott...

Who doesn’t like wearing nice threads in the appropriate circumstances ! Good on you . I hope you can get a WR at some stage . They are worth it .

Sadly no .

I am a particular fan of side-lock DRs . They are just so very elegant . But I also like a nice box lock . I really like British firearms . Hate short barrels . I want a minimum of 24 inches and ideally 26 inches . They just look right . Heavy calibre DRs with short barrels look like clubs . I...

Sounds like you are after something with some personality like this 100 year old 404J . You can actually see the hand marks on the barrel from all its years of service . I would never ever reblue but I did have to restock - an exact copy of the original.

I always reload for my DRs . Off the shelf never regulates properly for older rifles . It just comes down to me a copy of “Shooting The British Double Rifle” , a chronograph , the correct weight bullets ( what it says on the barrels) and powders recommended in Graeme Wright’s book. Just keep...

Thank you . That would be great .

A Rigby in their original 450NE with a W&S screw grip action in original condition . Every box ticked . Superb.

Yes plenty of Axis and Rusa behind the Sunshine Coast along with red which are being seen within 10kms of Brisbane CBD . Haven’t seen fallow but likely to be present . And there are Sambar way back in ranges in head waters of the Mary River .

When I bought my farm in Tasmania in early 2000s I was issued permits to shoot 400 fallow deer each year . By the time I sold it 20 years later I was being issued 1200 permits each year . I nearly shot countless deer , the farm manager shot whatever I shot multiplied by 10 and poachers ( always...