A training session with your DG double rifle can be hard on you sholder, your eyebrow and your wallet...
Here is my solution....
SxS shotgun with two .22 Hornet insert barrels and red dot.
HWL
I am prepairing for my next trip to South Africa in May.
I intend to hunt some plains game in the bushfelt, next to Thabazimbi.
Oryx, waterbuck and hartebeest is on the list.
Perhaps a leopard....if I can get a permit.
I want to hunt with a single shot and a "very South African" cartridge.
Ruger...
Sometimes, a now or never - situation appears........
Exactly this happened to me, and I did the shot, in front of egun.... "the German Gunbroker".
I won an auction for an obviously pre WWI Mauser M98 in 11,2x60 Schuler, made by Otto Bock, Berlin.
Old, worn out, heavily used, but still in...
I have no idea, if it is usefull for hunting in Africa, but it was love at first sight.... and I couldn't resist.
Blaser K77 break open single shot rifle in .308 Winchester, 25,6" barrel, discreet engraving, some stock cutting and "scaly fish skin", trapdoor magazine for 3 rounds.
Zeiss...
On my next trip to RSA, a 9,3x62 will accompany me.
A Mauser M98, 20" barrel, Zeiss 3-12x56 Diavari, German #1 on pivot mount, or ....
A Mannlicher-Schoenauer GK, 25,6" barrel, zeiss 2,5-10x52 Diavari, German #4 on claw mount.
;)
HWL
This should be the place for the friends of the Mannlicher-Schoenauer rifle.
Whenever you have information, pictures or storys about "The Gentleman's Rifle", or you are just interested in, you are welcome here.
My last purchase, I bought heavily used and restored it.
Before and after...
This thread is for all thouse who sit at home now, in their corona isolation and look for some gun porn....
...and for all, who already own and love a Mauser M88......
I know, Gert is one of this guys. ;)
Won at a gun auction this week..... Mauser M88 in 8mm Mauser, J bore, .318 dia, aka...
Sometimes, archeologists dig even in gun shops, and so I did.
I fund a box, covered with dust since 2008.
I suscected a treasure and payed 599 €.
Indeed, the gun was untouched...... and I went into the Loading Room.
Will it become an "African Rifle" or just another toy, good for...
For all women, who think costly gifts like socks, underpants and aftershave are necessary for a man...… this thread is not for you.
Something simple, lovingly built together, just wood and steel, is sufficient to make a man happy.
For example, a Ruger No1 in .405 Winchester.....
Merry...
I bought that damned thing because I could not withstand....
It is an belgian made Drilling in .450 N0. 2 BP, 12 ga.,12 ga.
Does anyone have informations about a .450 N0.2 BP.
I have never heard about that cartridge, but the muzzle looks impressive.
Where to get ammo, cases, bullets...
Limpopo Province, South Africa, March 2019.
After 116 years, the Mannlicher-Schoenauer M1903 still works fine.
6,5x54 Mannlicher-Schoenauer cartridge, 160gr Hornady soft point round nose, frontal chest shot, went down for good after 30 m.
HWL
Today, I brought home a unicorn.... a unicorn at least for me.....
May be, in Finland, this is/was a common rifle, but I had never seen one her in town.
It is a Mosin Nagant, made or converted at Sako Riihimäki, 1943
Expect of a few dents in the stock it looks like new....
The cartridge is a...
As the second member of my "very british battery ;)", I purchased a .303 British.
It is a Ruger No. 1, same as my .450/400 3" NE.
Does it make sense, to bring it to Africa or is it good for nothing?
Some experts say, it does not even exist,.... and here it comes....
The Mannlicher-Schoenauer MCA in 9,3x64!
Proof marks from Proof House of Vienna 1968, metal parts like new, some minor dents in the stock.
Hi folks...
I have the chance to buy a quite new Merkel 140 AE in .450/400 NE...
For a long time, I am looking for a SxS, that, in a pinch, can handle every game africa has to offer.
I am not a professional but a "client"...
.... and I do not look for a "charge stopper",....but for the all...
.....proudly present,.... my new baby!
The "Bayrisches Blitzgewehr"/ "Bavarian lightning gun"!
Caliber is 11,15x60R aka. .43 Mauser.
All mechanical parts, ,trigger, lock, ejector, sight... work fine.
Bore is mirror-like!!!
Does anyone has further information about these guns?
HWL
In all the furthest corner of my gun store, covered by an inch of dust, I found this one.
Mannlicher-Schoenauer Mod. GK, 8x57IS, perfect bore, 100 % bluing, a few dents in the wood, marks from Proofhouse of Vienna 1961,.....
:A Yell:
HWL
Found in a friends gun rack....
Made in Belgium, heavily used condition, barrels ok, bad regulated, ..... cheap and with a good core.... a construction site!
Is this cartridge good for anything in Africa?
HWL
After an "Act of madness", I have two rifles .458 Winchester-Magnum in my gunrack. Probably, I do not need even one. But anyways, there is always someting to improve.
Does ist make sence, to altern one to .458 Lott. I had a close look into Norma´s Reloading Manual #2.
.458 Winchester seems to...
For the big bore lovers...
From top..
Lee Enfield P14 in .470 Capstick,
Mauser M66S in .458 Winchester-Magnum
Mauser M98 by FN in 450 Marlin
Mauser M98 by Mauser in .404 Rimless Jeffrey
CZ 550 Magnum in .375 Holland & Holland
Unfortunately, until now, only the .404 saw action in Africa :(
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