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.
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.
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!
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.
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’...
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.
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.
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.
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.
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!
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.
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.
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...
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.
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...
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...
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:
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...
@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:!
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...
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.
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...
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!
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