Search results

  1. Z

    I found the “Needle in the Haystack”!

    Good cartridge, the .264 Win Mag. Like any chambering, you rarely need to use the heaviest charge of the slowest possible propellant in order to develop a useful hunting load. I know another guy here in NZ who has been using his Model 70 for decades. He just loves it.
  2. Z

    I found the “Needle in the Haystack”!

    Just remember that ... the 7mmSTW is rather noisy. I remember being 30 odd metres away from the mound when someone was firing his brand new toy. It was like being next to an old acquaintance when he was firing his .264 Win Mag with muzzle brake.
  3. Z

    Love of Shooting in the Age of the 'Rona and The Big Guy

    W The daughter should be practised enough by then … to pick up on all your bad habits and start coaching you!
  4. Z

    Love of Shooting in the Age of the 'Rona and The Big Guy

    Yes, I learned the hard way:D!
  5. Z

    Love of Shooting in the Age of the 'Rona and The Big Guy

    Get the gear for what you have. It is a pain to be waiting months for essential components so that you can shoot a newly purchased rifle. Never again for me!
  6. Z

    8x68S owner's opinions

    If the action and barrel are good to go, that would be a nice rifle.
  7. Z

    Look what followed me home today

    More like ... she pretended not to know and then amused herself by winding him up when he made that slip:ROFLMAO:!
  8. Z

    BRNO ZKK 602 Scope ring options?

    Warne works well on ZG 47. The same ring-mounts and 2-piece bases work on: post-WW2 Model 21/22, ZG 47, all ZKK models and CZ550. One piece bases work on Model 21/22, ZG 47, ZKK 600, etcetera. Picatinny bases are a separate story.
  9. Z

    The Very First Rifle In 585 Nyati...

    Nice piece of kit and ... who said wall guns were history:A Banana::D Beers:?
  10. Z

    ATTN Mauser Experts, Need Help

    Rechambering one of those rifles to 9.3x62 is a bad idea because it then becomes unpleasant to shoot. I advised another hunter not to do it and later heard that he—and his shoulder—regretted the decision. The groove diameter of the barrel should be greater than the bullet diameter. Every ‘.308’...
  11. Z

    Model 70 .375 Safari Express Shooting Low

    I only came across it about seven years back, either reading or watching something to do with air rifles.
  12. Z

    Model 70 .375 Safari Express Shooting Low

    You can get pretty close by putting the scope against a mirror, looking through the ocular and moving the adjustments until the reticle lines up with its reflection. Any sighting telescope made in the last 40 years should be bright enough to use this method.
  13. Z

    Pulling front or back trigger first

    How was your shoulder?
  14. Z

    Pulling front or back trigger first

    As I was taught in the Army, ‘practice makes permanent BUT it has to be the right kind of practice’.
  15. Z

    Help Identifying a rifleand/or gunsmith

    I suggest that you Google Interarms. Quite an interesting story. Compares well with Bannerman.
  16. Z

    BRNO ZKK 600

    Take it slowly. If the sight does not move easily after the first overnight soak, wipe away the excess and apply some more. Be the tortoise:D!
  17. Z

    BRNO ZKK 600

    Remove the action from the stock and put some Kroil in there to loosen up the sight mechanism. If you do not have Kroil, use WD40. Failing that … an overnight soak in kerosene.
  18. Z

    Rigby Big Game Lightweight 350 Rigby

    I understand that quite a few of the .350 Rigby rifles were rebarreled by Rigby for the. 375 H&H, in addition to the .404 Jeffery conversions mentioned in an earlier reply to this thread. A shortage of original .350 Rigby rifles might be part of the marketing equation.
  19. Z

    Mauser M12 extreme synthetic stock

    Looks like a good substitute. I will have to see if I can bludge a taste at one of the local booze shops.
  20. Z

    Mauser M12 extreme synthetic stock

    I understand that @spike.t prefers Grey Goose orange vodka. I was one of the people who stirred him up when he whinged about a shortage, several years back.
  21. Z

    I want a new rifle but I don’t know what to get

    Good in a stew plus ... I always had great fun making Vegemite sandwiches for nieces and nephews, plastering the bread with 3 or 4x as much as my sisters in law would allow!
  22. Z

    I want a new rifle but I don’t know what to get

    Thinned spar varnish is a good way to protect barrel and action inletting from water. Ken Waters used a paste wax to keep water--and anything else--from getting between the barrel and the fore-end inletting.
  23. Z

    Help identifying a rifle

    They are an abomination. I used to hunt with a guy who could neck shoot a possum from 30 yards standing--with an open-sighted Norinco JW15--whilst someone else was holding a spotlight. He missed a red spiker at maybe 50 metres because he had mounted a similar set of ringmounts on his Model 96.
  24. Z

    Help identifying a rifle

    For practical purposes, with a sporterised, Swedish Mauser, all you NEED to know is: whether or not the action was made by Husqvarna. That is because the Husqvarna action has a harder surface and gunsmiths need to spot-anneal before drilling screw holes. Year dates are nice to know BUT not worth...
  25. Z

    Help identifying a rifle

    I wondered about the rear sight but do not have any images to hand, I think. Good bush rifle, all the same. Stock splitting similar to what I had on long-sold M38 which had barely been fired.
  26. Z

    Help identifying a rifle

    Receiver is Carl Gustafs, i.e. Swedish Arsenal. Appears to be a sporterised M94. Stock shortened and recontoured. New brass bead foresight. The stock could do with being carefully relieved behind the tang and stabilising cracks with appropriate glue/epoxy. Should be a nice bush rifle, especially...
  27. Z

    Show your work horses and bubba rifles

    Good honest use. Cannot argue with that.
  28. Z

    Savage 99

    I suggest that you check the twist rate before getting carried away with load creation. The original twist rate was nominally 1-14" but John Barsness discovered that his rifle had a barrel twist closer to 1-15". He advised that 87gr flat-base bullets worked well in that barrel. The late rifles...
  29. Z

    325 WSM

    Are you really talking about recoil:)? … OR are you talking about what the missus does to you when she finds new gun cleaning stains on the lounge carpet:D:A Stirring:
  30. Z

    Bob Nelson I sold my .243!

    @Bob Nelson 35Whelen will be ready for them with his heavy rifles mounted on a trailer, red filter searchlight and all:A Stirring:!
  31. Z

    Bullet Performance Database

    Given how small they are … that sounds like a good plan.
  32. Z

    Bullet Performance Database

    I have used a .308 with 150gr Hdy flat base on a chamois and that was ridiculously excessive. Consensus seems to be that minimum suitable chambering for chamois is .22-250 with a hunting i.e., not varmint bullet. 7x57 with a good 140-150 grain deer bullet seems to be pretty good for tahr, even...
  33. Z

    Bob Nelson I sold my .243!

    I shall respect your opinion, provided that: you consider VB to be only good for drowning flies!:ROFLMAO:
  34. Z

    Starting my journey with potentially the cheapest (and ugliest?) double rifle around…the IZH94 O/U in 30-06

    Should be a generic Brno/CZ/Tikka base. Warne, Sportsmatch and others can help you out.
  35. Z

    Whisky appreciation

    The Scots make whisky and the Irish make whiskey. Failure to adopt modern still technology about a century ago had a major impact on Irish exports.
  36. Z

    Bob Nelson I sold my .243!

    @Ragman Your wife may have been doing an intervention when she appropriated your 7mm Rem Mag and forced you to realise how wrong it is to hunt with a .243 :A Stirring::A Banana:!
  37. Z

    Bob Nelson I sold my .243!

    Ni
  38. Z

    Whisky appreciation

    Just tried the Hearach at a launch event the other day. Nice light whisky with a taste of the sea. In regard to Macallan, I have a nice 18 year old at home BUT that is an older bottle. The distillery has not released anything worth their prices for a good 15 years. It will be another 20 years or...
  39. Z

    How do you haul your game out?

    Did you 'ace' his class, partly because he made a point thereafter, of regularly putting the smartarse on the spot with oral questions?
  40. Z

    How do you haul your game out?

    True, a short straight ladder will do the job. As a carpenter, I can easily lay my hands on an old ladder with a damaged end cut off.
  41. Z

    How do you haul your game out?

    Another option where you have a pickup truck, would be to use some quad ramps with a sheet of reject plywood laid on top and winch the carcass up the ramp. A come-along winch might be adequate for pulling.
  42. Z

    How do you haul your game out?

    Good on you. I have had enough howling wind and rain on site in recent weeks, let alone going into the bush:)!
  43. Z

    How do you haul your game out?

    B Bloody hell! You are older than me AND @Bob Nelson 35Whelen. Probably crazier as well.
  44. Z

    a lithgow .303 rifle joined my collection, it took a while to find a good one.

    It is my understanding that the 2A1 receiver was made from a modern alloy steel BUT I do not have access to any authoritative works on the subject. I suspect that the Ishapore facility would have some sort of official archivist OR at the very least, a librarian to manage the arsenal’s technical...
  45. Z

    Look what followed me home today

    Nice rifle. Enjoy.
  46. Z

    a lithgow .303 rifle joined my collection, it took a while to find a good one.

    A very nice No. 1 Mk III*. Enjoy. You should get yourself a copy of The Enfield Inch so that you can present yourself as an expert on Lithgow Small Arms history:D!
  47. Z

    Holland & Holland 500/465

    Beautiful rifle. Thank you for sharing.
  48. Z

    Sauer 100 9.3x62

    Vala, nice rifle. Good to see a decent set of open sights on that barrel.
  49. Z

    My Second Man Eating Royal Bengal Tiger

    Beautiful rifle and … with signs of use.
  50. Z

    8x57 African big game load

    I prefer hot water BUT cold will do when that is what you have. Just use more water.
 
Top