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Well I'm looking to sell my Domorline bulit 404 Jeffery, so I grabbed some ammo and went to the range for possibly a last shoot. I'm really luck I have access to one of the few if not only range inside the M25 where you can shoot heavy calibres. So set my self up a piece of card and marked an...

I've just been asked to build a 8x68s on a Mauser 98 action. Not a calibre I've played with before so ordered up some drill rounds and I'll find a reamer etc next week. How much fiddling is there the guy assures me it was made for the Mauser but I'm not convinced the magazine box will be long...

I've just got my grubby mitts on an 8x60 specially made for Clas A Heyer & Co Nairobi. It's a nice little rifle and looks to have some hunting left in her. Now on checking the proof marks for the bore diameter it's stamped 7,85.8,1.240 then under neath 8x60 with an S right angles lower down...

I picked a comercial action Mauser in 308 at auction to build a nice classic stalking rifle. However when I started checking things the rifling looked quite good but the bolt face had been opened up, so some deeper looking at the proof marks it turns out it's not the assumed 308 win but 308 N...

What people's views on 404 built on an FN action barrel marked "made for Parker Hale Ltd by Fs Dumoulin Cie Liege. It's got a claw mounted German 1-4x24 scope. Bad bit well fitted walnut stock extension with a silvers pad.

Anyone else out there using Vectan powders? I currently use TU5000 for 243 and 308 had some good results as well. I note it can also be used for 375 H&H so thinking of trying to work up a load. Just don't see or hear to many people using it.

Hi thank you for letting me in. I'm an ex Army officer who is now building rifles (offering some custom Mauser builds soon) and also a shooting instructor (rifle and shotgun). I'm a keen game shot and stalker but a young family has slowed this a little. As a teen young adult I spent time...