Recent content by Riflecrank

Liberated from NSW, thank God ! No price should be criticized as too little for such a great service to civilization. The misaligned .458 WIN MAG feeding nevertheless never failed Finn. Spring-loaded lips designed to straight-line feed the fatter, severely rebated-rim .425 WR case allowed the...

Congratulations on your immediate success. I do love the WR front sight too. Some historical WR-generated data was used to make this graph showing that the 425 WR tops out for MV at very close to 28", and MV is 1 fps slower at 32" barrel length, heh-heh-heh:

Beknighted.

Sir Saint Ommanney was benighted at the Square Table of the .458 WIN MAG. Champion. Hero. Some poor quality images that might not have been added here yet: Before Clint Eastwood as "Dirty Harry" there was David Ommanney "our man in Africa" using the same post-'64 African .458 WIN MAG from...

95 y.o. Pop and 78 y.o. Son ... Pop was busy early in life, glad it worked out for both of them ! I have Remington M700s in 7mm STW, 300 WbyMag, and 375 RUM. Kept them because they are accurate.

Uncle Ed with Mauser not Remington: Uncle Ed taking 50-yard shot at hippo brain with Rem 700 "Super Seven" as he called it:

dgr416, On your latest stir of the kettle I was able to find the Youtube, thank you: There was some varmint shooting done with the Rem 700 "Super Seven" by the gal and Uncle Ed. But both of them used what looked like a Browning FN Mauser, I'd guess a .375 H&H, for all the buffalo and the...

One Day, Yes, atrocious to attribute camming power in extraction to the claw extractor when it is the "camming ramp" DOH! Mr. Pearce is usually better than that. But remember that the CRE feature pulls the extractor inward when the bolt begins rearward motion, and that little bit of extra room...

Steve White, Thanks for helping popularize the CRE distintion of the true Mauser CRF+CRE found on commercial M98s, CZ 550 Magnums and Mediums as well as their forerunner BRNO models. If it doesn't have the nonrotating "long claw" Mauser extractor with beveled tongue in groove running...

I cringe when I top off a CRF&CRE rifle by doing the "Mauser Extractor Side Finger Press" to pushfeed one more cartridge over a full magazine. But that doesn't stop me from doing it now and then, as long as that big, beautiful, non-rotating longclaw has proper temper of its spring steel. If it...

"As for brass shavings binding the plunger, blasting it regularly with Gun Scrubber, carb or brake cleaner helps. Use an appropriate size punch to work it in and out during cleaning. Then apply a drop or two of thin oil after using the spray." Yes, that is what I did ... Sharp, little...

CRF+CRE rifles would have to be the champs. Those would include the milsurp and commercial Mausers, Whitworth/Zastava,/FN/etc., and the CZ 550 Magnum & Mediums/BRNO ZKK602. Those have the tongue-in-groove bevel producing CRE. Controlled Round Extracting as well as Controlled Round Feeding. The...

Ditto on the thanks for the excellence from One Day. Another true Mauser 1898 feature is Controlled Round Extraction (CRE) as well as Controlled Round Feeding (CRF). Retracting the bolt rearward makes that claw extractor draw inward toward the central axis of the cartridge/bore, due only to a...

Yep it is a conundrum. Here is my first .510/.338 LMI, a hunting rifle with 24" barrel sans brake: Here is my second, for "long range"with heavier 25.5" barrel sans brake: And an idea for making the second rifle into more of a hunter: A switch-barrel in .375/.338 Lapua Magnum ?

That was a freaky test for low velocity .416 bullet expansion by the unintentional shooting of the unseen bull. Unintended consequences followed for about 6 months ...