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A short barrel is frequently chosen so that the rifle can be mounted transversely on a quad.

Nice result.

You can still get the genuine front indicator lights. I just watched a Mr Landcruiser video about a restored 1969 model. It was beautiful.

Good find. I have never actually seen a Leupold CPC reticle with a dot but it looks like a perfect option for use with that chambering.

Here in NZ there is a company recycling soft plastics into fence posts. I understand that kiwi fruit growers have started buying this product, instead of the usual CCA treated pinus radiata—or occasional black pine—posts. I suggest that you investigate the availability of such product in your...

Is she absolutely ruthless when it comes to checking your fence line straightness?

There was a general engineering firm here in Wellington which also imported tools and after their Aussie supplier closed up, they kept their display window filled with old tools. At one stage, they reportedly had a huge old chainsaw on display. One of my brothers, who occasionally did business...

Feeds and extracts more reliably than the .308 Winchester and derivatives thereof, every day of the week.

I I understand that most of the .350 Rigby rifles built by Rigby have been rebarrelled and rechambered by that firm to .375 H&H.

I remember, years ago, reading in a Land Rover Owner magazine about a Pom who bought diesel at a supermarket in/near London before his regular drive to Scotland in a fully loaded Series Land Rover . He got about 2/3 the normal distance before having to refill the tank. The supermarket was...

I have a Husqvarna 540XP top handle saw. It is quite a bit smaller than some of the professional tree felling kit desribed in this thread but it is made for climbing and ... at the time, it was both better and cheaper than the ancient model Stihl was selling. The top handle has three grip sizes...

If it works, it works!

Probably the result of the machine that stamps out brass disc's from the brass strip being run too quickly and getting out of time. If a cutting die takes a nick out of a disc that will happen. I only saw it twice at the range complex that I used to run.

@rookhawk It depends upon nib design and quality. Many years ago, the local Parker pen repair man made me up a Parker 45 fountain pen with an Italic nib. That was a special nib which had rounded edges, just like a medium nib. It allowed me to write in italic and cursive styles without the nib...

The Safari is a good practice pen when I haven’t used a fountain pen in several weeks. If I am doing a lot of demolition, concrete form work or building large timber retaining walls, I tend to leave off fountain pen use until my muscles and tendons have loosened up a bit. The Safari is also a...

Lamy Safari is my middle level pen. I still have a couple of Parker Vectors lying around BUT my favourite fountain pen is my Lamy 2000 with Cycolac (ABS plastic) body. N.B. Cycolac is the same material as the Steyr Mannlicher SSG 69 stock.

In the late 1980s, Parker resurrected their DuoFold line for a few years. I know this because my first Trade Cert is in retail and I was a commercial stationer at the time. Bigger barrel than normal and a very nice feel. I imagine that any DuoFold pen is fetching collector prices now BUT if you...

Good suggestion @Flbt. The 6mm/244 Remington is a much safer chambering because the combustion gases leave the cartridge case in line with the barrel. You do not prematurely roughen up the leade and cause pressure problems. I ran a club range complex for 14 years and you need to learn...

Be very, very certain that you want this:unsure:! Bob is only a short drive from Sydney. Can you handle it, can you handle it:D:A Stirring::A Banana:? Actually … Bob is a good guy and Judy is a lovely lady:D.

Yes, Francis E. Sell still makes far more sense than any ‘rifle reviewer’ who is trying to keep distributors happy and/or make money via YouTube.

CZ only claim Remington 700 layout for scope base mounting. No surprise there, given that it goes back to the remachined P17 receivers used in Remington Model 30 rifles and has become something of a standard, over the years.

I just saw a Facebook post from Bertram Brass, dated 16 hours ago, showing brand new .303 Savage cases. If you want some for your Savage 99, chase up your supplier now.

Aah … first world problems :D !

A 139 gr Hornady Interlock bullet has been known to pencil through red deer because … it was designed for the .264 Winchester Magnum. Appropriate bullet selection will always beat fashion and promotional bullshit.

Beautiful rifle. Nice find. Is it the standard 1-280mm twist?

During the late 1980s and past 1990, as I recall, the Leupold M8 6x42 was their only model with fully multicoated optics. Everything else was fully coated, as in single coatings on exterior lens surfaces i.e., the ocular and objective lens surfaces that the user can touch. Part of this was an...

A larger exit pupil is a critical factor in obtaining a decent eyebox.

@Ridge Runner ... .1 mil OR 1 cm is essentially 1/3 MOA for hunting purposes. It would also be perfectly adequate for shooting out to 500 yards and probably out to 1,000 yards; based upon my limited long range shooting experience. One minute of angle at 100m equals 29.09 mm. Check the percentage...

Nice job @WAB but ... you only need the disc brakes if you are driving through a lot of water. Drum brakes need a lot less cleaning. Ask me how I know :D!

Nice job @WAB. I agree with @Bob Nelson 35Whelen

BUT ... it does not have a B52 tail turret:unsure::ROFLMAO:!

Or when your lottery numbers come up:D!

@rookhawk Nickel offers a 1.5-6x30 ‘Big Game’ scope with advertised eye relief of 4.9 inches, with a more expensive rail mount version available. If you want to pay a significant number of Euros and wait the stated 6-8 months, it is the genuine sole option for a brand new ‘very long eye relief’...

Correction to the above. I should have typed Kahles i.e., their Helia 3 range and NOT Swarovski.

If your eyes are getting worse … I suggest that you go for a good quality optic with 3x zoom ratio and fixed parallax. There is no such thing as a ‘free lunch’ with optics. Greater zoom ratios make the eye muscles work harder. Extra lenses and/or elements—doublets and triplets—reduce light...

Not good. This is obviously a large company with sufficient resources to avoid such problems.

Not a rheostat. That would drain the battery in a very short time. It will be an electronic switch that goes on and off very quickly, as used by the Australian spotlight company Lightforce—founder and owner of Nightforce Optics—for many a year.

Hard to beat.

Another thing about tang sights, is that: as rifle cartridges increased in energy levels, it reportedly became possible to lose an eye, due to the tang sight flicking back down during recoil.

He had some issues with accuracy of sight adjustments, as I recall. There may have been a total of three videos on the rifle. Essentially, the peep sight appears to be durable but below Lyman 48/57 levels of consistency. Might be closer to Lyman 36 levels, the 36 being the upgraded version of...

Did you mean to type 'a la Winchester model 70'?

Lyman Model 21, developed for the Winchester Model 1886 because the breech block on that rifle comes back too far for a tang sight to be used. The Model 21 started Lyman’s changeover to receiver mounted peep sights. The Lyman Model 36 differs by having a windage adjustment screw on the right...

Mike a.k.a. YT ‘Bloke on the Range’ bought the civilian version of the C19 and covered the good/bad points of the peep sight on that rifle. I suggest that you go to YouTube and search for that video on his channel.

Good outcome. By the way, @Bearkat … is she a better shot than you:D?

There is always something new to learn about Brno production. One day I was chatting to a local guy who hunts, shoots NRA and collects firearms. He had just acquired a ZG 47 Lightweight in .30-06 and remarked that he did not know there was a lightweight version until he bought that rifle! News...

Good to hear that it still has the double set trigger. The majority of Model 21 and 22 rifles that were imported to New Zealand, had the set trigger replaced—at owner request—with a standard M98 trigger.

@Milan 1. The F and H suffixes are a North American invention. 2. The Brno Model 22 has the shorter barrel and a full length stock. 3. A small percentage of Model 21 production had the shorter barrel length and those guns are referred to as carbines. 4. Barrel fitting and cartridge length is NOT...

Brno Model 22, the Model 21 is the half stock variant. The receiver has the prewar profile. Later postwar Model 21/22 rifles have grooves cut in the receiver for sight mounting. There were, according to CZUB, problems with these grooves when the actions were rebarrelled and chambered for...

Hail Judy!

Give @Bob Nelson 35Whelen an inch and he will take … a nautical mile :D :A Banana::A Stirring:!