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Every Model 70 I have ever owned, or seen for that matter, had the caliber marked on top of the barrel just behind the Winchester logo. That caliber marking must have been done by whoever fluted the barrel and erased the original markings.

It so happens that the two bolt actions taken on all three of my African hunts were based on a P-14 Enfield and a Winchester Model 70 (pre-War). Their calibers were .505 SRE and .300 H&H. My multi- barrel weapons were a Krieghoff Teck O/U double rifle with interchangeable barrels in .458 WM and...

Here is my .505 Gibbs, built on a Granite Mouuntain action with double sq

The Dayton-Traister web site {https://tecmagex.com/en/dayton-traister-mark-2-rifle-trigger-enfield-p14-p17-without-safety-blue-0-9-3-15kg.html) should answer your questions. There were several versions of the trigger, including a speed lock and a version for modified trigger guard.

! was using s "lead sled" long before one was available commercially. I find it invaluable. I have no facts and figures to back my theory, but I found years ago that after I had been shooting International Skeet for some time, my rifle technique improved dramatically. Unlike the rules of...

I just realized that I misrepresented the shot barrels: they are 20 gauge 3" Magnum caliber, Very handy for Guinea fowl and sand grouse. Ducks, too, as I once went duck hunting in a native canoe painted bright yellow, which the ducks didn't seem to mind.

I calculated the recoil generated by this incident I described above and and came up with the following figures: Bullet Weight:1000 (gr) Bullet Velocity: 2130 (fps) Powder Charge Weight:140 (gr) Firearm Weight: 10.3 (lbs) Recoil Impulse 12.57 (lbs.sec) Recoil...

I had never shot with sticks before my first African hunt. I met my future professional hunter at a Game Coin convention in San Antonio, where I had been invited by John Buhmiller, my mentor as far as African Hunting was concerned. The late David Williams, of Ker, Downey and Selby, Nairobi, was...

The last buffalo I ever killed was with my .505 SRE (570 grain bullet at 2150 fps.) which developed 100 foot pounds of recoil energy. It had been flushed by the beaters and went straight across in front of me at about 50 yards. I shot four times before he went down, all of the shots hitting...

I suppose I'm hopelessly old fashioned, but I look at any feature on a scope beyond focus as asking for trouble. Consequently, my DG rifles are equipped with low powered scopes (2 1/2X to 3X) and have no self centering reticles. To me, combining a heavy recoil rifle with a scope packed with...

I was lucky enough to stumble onto a 1922 Newton owned by someone who was unaware of what he had. Neither were any ot the other bidders, as evidenced by their cautious bidding. I took one look at the set triggers and knew what I was looking at. Evidently no one else did.

Let me put the question another way: Why has there never been a successful lever action shotgun? There has been a lever action shotgun, the Model 1881, designed by John Browning at Winchester's request, but only in 10 gauge, so as not to compete with Winchester's successful slide action...

The windage adjustment on my 2,5X Noske scope is frozen, resisting all efforts to turn it. Under the assumption that the cause is hardened grease, I have considered applying a hair drier to it in an effort to melt the grease without damaging the scope mechanism. If I knew of a scope mechanic...

If you're me, and it's 1970, you'd have to resort to wildcatting, as I did, with my .505 SRE (570 grain bullet at 2150 fps.). Nowadays, you have quite a number of choices. Perhaps the easiest would be the .500 Jeffrey, which does not require a Magnum length action and is probably the easiest to...

I'm showing my age, but when I had my .30/.338 built back in the late '60's, that's the way it was marked. Later it became the .30 Chatfield-Taylor, and now, I see, it has aquired the new name. I never took it to Africa, but I killed everything I shot at with it in North America. I took my .300...

My first shotgun was a Browning Five Shot automatic. When I began shooting skeet, the depth of the fore end of a Browning O/U felt right (and still does). When I started shooting International Skeet competetively, I switched to a Perazzi and my first double rifle was a Krieghoff "Teck" O/U with...

I consider 66 pretty young (I'll be 85 in February), but more important than years is stamina, by which I mean the ability to walk all morning through a treeless plain, following elephant tracks. I have neuropathy in both feet, and were it not for my faithful John Deere Gator, I wouldn't be able...

It seems to me that my game shooting benefitted both from my competetive rifle shooting and from my competetive shotgun shooting. I learned to shoot skeet while stationed in Okinawa, where a round of skeet cost a dollar, including the use of the shotgun, the box of shells, and the use of the...

Wnen I last visited Kenya Bunduki in 1974, my Nairobi gun shop of preference, I found a Westley Richards Ovundo O/U double rifle with hand detachable locks in caliber .350 Rigby No. 2 at a very reasonable price and proceeded to buy it. It was one of a pair belonging to the Maharaja of soandso...

"I get really concerned with time of flight on the really long range stuff (800+). At extreme ranges the target can walk out of the shot while the bullet is in flight. The result can be something none of us want no matter how good the shot is." It doesn't have to be really long range. I once...

This is my .505 SRE, which duplicates the performance of a .500 NE with a 570 grain bullet at 2100 fps. It weighs 8 3/4 pounds and thanks to the stock design, I found it comfortable to shoot. It was built around a P14 Enfield action, altered as shown in the photos. I'm not sure (I had it made...

Steve Bertram (http://www.bertramandco.com/) helped me with a Mauser sporter oringinally in .375 H&H, which had been rebarreled to .404 with no other alterations. This ignored the fact that the magazine dimensions for a .404 are different from those for a .375, and as a result, the rifle would...

Actually, that .458 WM was based on a 1903 Springfield. The 03A3 models are pretty crude wartime manufacture rifles, with a number of stamped parts. This was my rifle: The metal work was by the late Harry Creighton and the stock by the late Hal Hartley. A Lyman Alaskan scope in a Griffin &...

Roy Dunlap gives his method of measuring barrels with odd numbers of lands and grooves on page 207 of his book "Gunsmithing". Basically, you measure the diameter of the bore plus one land, then you turn the casting down until the lands are removed and measure the bore diameter, then subtract the...

1. .375 H&H Magnum 2. .416 Rigby 3. .450 Watts 4. .500 Jeffrey

You have that nice flat area on the barrel ahead of the receiver ring, which I believe was intended for a scope mount. It appears to be about the same height as the square bridge., slightly higher than the receiver ring. You could dovetail it without threatening the receiver strength and the...

As far as personal experience is concerned, I used a wildcat .505 SRE and a .458 Winchester Magnum for my thick skinned dangerous game cartridges. My PH used a .470 Nitro Express DR, and I can truthfully say, I don't know effective his shots were. I knocked my first elephant down with my first...

This was on my first African hunt, in 1971 in Kenya. We were hunting on a huge ranch managed by the PH's brother-in-law. The ranch was surrounded with an 8' chain link fence, to keep predators out. Somehow a pack of Cape hunting dogs had made it past the fence and as we were driving down a dirt...

I started competetive shooting in 1960, shortly after I received my commission in the Marine Corps. I had been released from active duty to start law school, and would not resume long term active duty until I graduated and was admitted to the bar. While I was in law school, I attended drills...

This is my Winchester Model 1885, caliber 7X57R, metal work by the late Harry Creighton, stock by the late Hal Hartley.

This is what comes of writing at 5:00AM at age 84. When I wrote ".219 Savage", I was thinking (of course) of it's twin, the .219 Zipper. The Savage cartridge is the .22 Savage High Power, which is known in Europe as the 5.6X52, and where ammunition of that caliber is still available. The Zipper...

I'm amazed that no one has mentioned the Savage Model 99. It has the strongest of all the traditional lever actions and is set up for both iron sights and a scope. I have three, in calibers .219 Savage, .300 Savage and ..250-3000 Savage and they are all accurate and easy to handle, without the...

My preference is for a wildcat, a cartridge I designed and had built for myself, the .505 SRE. It fits in a standard length action and the performance duplicates a .500 NE: 570 grain bullet at 2150 fps. I have used it to take one rhino, three elephants and a half dozen or so Cape buffalo. My...

The three calibers I actually used on dangerous game were my wildcat .505 SRE (duplicates .500 NE in performance), .458 WM (my Krieghoff double rifle) and .375 H&H (my second set of rifle barrels for my Krieghoff). They never failed me.

Is this rifle still available? Do the "extras" include scope rings?

My relating of my experience in Kenya failed to mention the previous two weeks spent on the banks of the Tsavo River near the border with Sudan. They were spent driving down the dry river bed, looking for the few water holes left for the elephants to congregate at. When we came to such a hole...

The .425 case is basically the same as the RUM series of cases, but with the rebated rim. My .425 was originally a RUM caliber on a Model 70 Winchester action which I had rebarreled, and I use RUM cases to make my brass. I have an extra bolt for my Model 70, with the correct bolt face and...

When I got my first .458 WM in that late 1950's, I was terrified of the recoil, so I started by loading light loads and gradually increasing them, until at last in about 1963 I was able to stand up against a full factory load. At that point I thought I was ready for anything, but I was...

I'm afraid not. I was on the team while I was in graduate school at the University of Illinois 1969-72, and I think Gunny Hathcock was in Vietnam then. I was in Vietnam in 1965, when things were just warming up.

I hate to admit it, but at age 84, I have trouble remembering the names of people I see every week. The only persons I remember for sure are Tom Simmons, rear row far left , and Major Erdmann, the terrific long range shooter, for whom the Erdmann Trophy was named, rear row, third from the right...

I wish I could be of more help, but all I did was turn the project and the barreled action over to Fajen. I can't tell you how pleased I am with the result. On two different occasions I was standing precariously balanced on an unsteady surface when I loosed the shots (in the case of the buffalo...

"Spannen" in German, means, among other things, to cock a weapon by compressing the hammer or firing pin spring. "Handspannung" is the act of cocking an action by hand. In the case of the Krieghoff system, once the cocking piece has been moved forward, cocking the action, then after the action...

That Particular hunt was in 1971 in the North East Territory of Kenya. That was the first of two Grevy's. The second was taken in 1974 from the same general location. It adorns the floor in my living room. Since hunting is now totally banned in Kenya, you would assume that the Grevy's are...

To get back to the OP's question, I happened upon this old photo, taken at Camp Perry around 1969-70. It shows the USMCR team as it then was made up. I am third from the left on the front row.

I think you would enjoy my Krieghoff Teck O/U dpuble rifle with barrel wsets in .458 WM and .375 H&H Magnum, plus shot barrels in 20 gauge 3" Magnum. I took it on all my African hunts and it accounted for elephant, buffalo, lion and leopard., plus plains game such as eland and greated kudu.

In my African hunting career I have taken four elephants. None of them was in a herd. Three of them were entirely alone, while one was accompanied by an "Askari". This last elephant also had the largest ivory, a single tusk which weighed 94 pounds. The second largest elephant in terms of ivory...

Da Nang, Republic of Viet Nam, 1965. I was in charge of clearing a 300 meter wide swath around the perimeter of the air base of all civilian structures, of which there were 826, all inhabitants, of which there were approximately 5000 and all graves, which numbered around 6000. The Vietnamese...

I started shooting at bulls eye targets in 1960 as an officer candidate in the Marine Corps. Later, with friends who had shot on collegiate rifle teams, I started real competition. I never qualified as less than Expert with either rifle or pistol in the Marine Corps and in Okinawa, in 1965, I...

That stock reminds me a good deal of the stock the Fajan Custom Shop put on my Farquharson back in the early '60's.