Recent content by ZG47

I was not, with all due respect, talking about shooting off picnic tables i.e., bench-rest shooting. That is not marksmanship, it is pure wind-reading, typically done at relatively short distances. Wind effect can be significant when shooting from a prone position, let alone sitting, kneeling or...

Do not forget that: big scopes and bulky stocks act like sails, in a decent breeze. Competition shooters started using cast aluminium stocks, over forty (40) years ago, on their iron-sighted rifles, partly to minimise the ‘sail area’ issue. A big/heavy scope creates fore-aft balance issues with...

The bark is the worst part. Not too far from cutting dirt with your chain.

Yea Yes, well … keep up your chainsaw muscles and tendons, if you are going to buy something bigger. The big saws don’t get any lighter, as the years go by. I recently used one of my arborist mate’s big saws whilst helping him on a job. I commented to him that I had forgotten how nice it was to...

.308 groove diameter with a .300” bore diameter is actually undersized, when the barrel has equal width grooves and lands, as with my ZG47 rifle which is chambered for the .30-06. I had the same issue with factory and hand loaded flat-base bullets. That is why I now use Sierra 165 grain...

Din Collings most probably had a reamer for the .300 H&H. Ask Mike or Ross Collings which one of them ended up with it.

@VSOHunt Roy Dunlap's book 'Gunsmithing' is worth reading on this subject. He went to a great deal of trouble to detail the right and wrong--unsafe--ways to modify the breech-bolts on these rifles.

If you want to eliminate ants, use poison bait. That way it will be taken back to the nest. If you kill all the ants that go in a certain direction, the colony will simply stop sending foragers in that direction.

It would be the perfect punishment!

Than Thank you. I need to expand my library again!

Thank you for sharing. Absolutely beautiful. Nice to see a little bit of honest wear.

Clogger Denim and Defender Pro 2 are both NZ$440.00 incl GST. Thank the international fuel prices and probably some invalid tariffs from you know who, for your prices.

Clogger is what I use. Possibly a bit cheaper here in NZ, the birthplace of Clogger!

You are actually asking about the ‘gas check cup’ used on some small arm projectiles i.e., NOT the ‘gas check’ formerly used on rifled artillery projectiles. A gas check is a copper or copper alloy disk, introduced in the latter half of the 19th century, to prevent propellant gas ‘blow by’ with...

My chainsaw trousers have a mesh liner which prevents binding and helps with ventilation. They also have a rear vent below the belt loops. In addition to the mesh liner and vent; the fact that they are retained by a belt and/or braces, instead of being tightly strapped to your legs, reduces...