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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...

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...

I just bought a trigger off eBay which is purportedly an Enfield trigger. Two questions: does the trigger fit both the P 14 and the M 1917 and does the trigger alter the cocking arrangement, like the Dayton Traister? Since the Canjar triggers are no longer made, I see no possibility of obtaining...

Some how I have come into possession of a sadly mixed up collection of parts connected to a barreled action marked "Westley Richards, London .303". The barreled action is in fact barreled and chambered in .303 British, but the magazine, trigger guard and stock are sad replacements which will...

This morning when I called up this web site, I was greeted by a photograph of a gentleman with a rather haughty expression on his face, apparently all ready to embark on an African hunt. Notable was the fact that he was wearing what appeared to be a pleated kilt made of camouflage cloth and was...

Back in the early 1970's, I booked three hunts with Ker, Downey and Selby in Kenya and Tanzania. My professional hunter was David Williams, whom I had met at a Game Coin convention in San Antonio. After the last hunt I lost contact with Dave and knew nothing about his subsequent activities until...

Today's the first anniversary of my initial posting on this web site. Since then, there have been 144 more and an amazing 644 reactions to them. I feel an acceptance to this elect group I have never felt in 20+ years of contributing to other web sites involving shooting and hunting. The high...

My friend and hunting partner, Debbie Carter, showed me this photo of a pair of earrings her husband, John, had made for her out of spent bullets. I was entranced. It turned out that they were only the latest of John's creations, using pistol bullets recovered after being fired into a barrel...

This is a project I have had going on for some time now. The first piece to be acquired was an Oberndorf Mauser square bridge action with a slant magazine, designed specifically for Rigby. The next item was a Rigby take-down barrel in caliber .350 Rigby No. 2. The final piece was a Rigby stock...

This is a rifle I have had for a while but only recently started to wring out. It was built by Griffin & Howe, based on a 1916 Newton action, with a half octagon, half round barrel in .35 Newton caliber, with a Zeiss Zielklein scope in a G&H single lever side mount with windage adjustment. I...

I just took delivery of a 25-06 built on a VZ-24 BRNO action and stocked Mannlicher style. Everything looked fine, until I attempted to chamber a factory round and discovered that the bolt won't quite close on it. Ostensibly the rifle was built in 1949, but I can't discover any discrepancy...

I bought the rifle because it was left handed and I needed to practice bolt manipulation from the port side, since m,y vision in my right eye was no longer reliable. Shoting rapid fire with it, the trigger was not too noticible, but once I started to develop a load shoting off the bench it...