Blaser R8 for Dangerous Game

[KIH]

I haven't sene that Blaser R8 Caliber Overview has 2 sides. The second side have the Custom tec Caliber overview, and this show that pretty much all caliber can be delivered in safari size.

 

[BeeMaa]

Funny, how the opinion of push feed not being "safe" for use on dangerous game hunts seem to diminish with these first hand experiences. Congrats on your success.

The Blaser R8 has proven to me that it will cycle flawlessly in any position I've tried.

 

[nomspc]

Two Cape buffalo so far. Next up will be hippo and croc.

 

[Kevin375]

I have hunted all my dangerous games with my Blaser rifles : A R93 in .375 Holland & Holland magnum and a R8 in .458 Lott.
The first time I hunted an elephant in the Caprivi strip, I used my good old R93 in .375 H&H magnum, that was my driven hunt rifle. My PH was Wayne Cilliers (an awesome man) and his rifle was a Blaser R8 Professional Hunter in .458 Lott. I had the opportunity to shoot on target with it and I just loved it. The next year, I bought the same one and I still love that rifle. I met Wayne 8 years ago, and from what I know, he keeps using it with a total satisfaction.
I also met the late Cornie Coetzee in 2017 and his favourite rifle was also a Blaser R8 with 2 barrels : one in .416 Remington magnum and the other was a 9.3x62 if my memory serves.

 

[BeeMaa]

Two more buffalo with an R8. PH said he hadn't seen a follow up shot that fast EVER. I credit the equipment as much as the time I put in training.

 

[Green Chile]

Blaser R8 is a very fast operating system. I'm reloaded as I come out of recoil pulse. 3 shots can be fired before the double is broken open.

 

[1dirthawker]

@BeeMaa,

well done!!! want to hear the story tho.

 

[BeeMaa]

@BeeMaa,

well done!!! want to hear the story tho.

https://www.africahunting.com/threa...dapt-overcome-with-jko-hunting-safaris.96642/

 

[BenKK]

I commented back in 2022 as a new owner. Since then my R8 .375H&H has accounted for probably thirty or forty buffalo and scrub bulls, plus a few boars.

I learned the hard way that you have to carefully follow the instructions with the QD mounts, removing them and reinstalling them in the correct order and avoiding oiling the attachment points. It put me out by about a foot at 100m (Swarovski scope).

 

[Schroeder]

I commented back in 2022 as a new owner. Since then my R8 .375H&H has accounted for probably thirty or forty buffalo and scrub bulls, plus a few boars.

I learned the hard way that you have to carefully follow the instructions with the QD mounts, removing them and reinstalling them in the correct order and avoiding oiling the attachment points. It put me out by about a foot at 100m (Swarovski scope).

Yes you are absolutely correct.
I always tighten front foot first, then rear.
I take them off in the opposite sequence.
I do oil the feet, it’s pretty hard not to get a small amount of oil run in.
I rub a little bit of alcohol in the scope mount recesses with a cotton bud before fitting a scope for a hunt.
And I always remove the barrel and wipe the bedding platform and barrel lug with alcohol.
My return to zero is always very near perfect, in fact not even noticeable.

 

[TOBY458]

Two of my former R8’s in one frame. I’m going to start requiring a royalty on my rifle sales. lol!

 

[Hunting Hitman]

In all honesty I never thought I would really become a Blaser guy. Now that I own 5 R8’s I guess I qualify as one.
I’m fairly hard o. Them and don’t do any special cleaning or care for them. I’ve taken them all over and the have performed flawlessly. Here is a pic of my last Safari with an R8 Selous in 500 Jeff.

HH

 

[Daisy]

Check out the Innomount zero for Blaser. It is the best system and most repeatable QD mount I have found.

Innomount Zero - Blaser - Ringe

Die zuverlässige Zielfernrohrmontage für Ihre Blaser Jagdwaffe und Ihrem Zielfernrohr - montiert mittels klassischer Ring-Montage

www.titanium-gunworks.com

 

[Daisy]

 

[Green Chile]

In all honesty I never thought I would really become a Blaser guy. Now that I own 5 R8’s I guess I qualify as one.
I’m fairly hard o. Them and don’t do any special cleaning or care for them. I’ve taken them all over and the have performed flawlessly. Here is a pic of my last Safari with an R8 Selous in 500 Jeff.

HH

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How do you like the Selous barrels? They are hard to find and expensive. I've thought about the Selous barrel for the 458 Lott.

That's a beautiful stock...share more photos of it?

 

[Kevin375]

Check out the Innomount zero for Blaser. It is the best system and most repeatable QD mount I have found.

Innomount Zero - Blaser - Ringe

Die zuverlässige Zielfernrohrmontage für Ihre Blaser Jagdwaffe und Ihrem Zielfernrohr - montiert mittels klassischer Ring-Montage

www.titanium-gunworks.com

This mount is great with its 2 levers working like a torque driver. I use it with a thermal scope keeping in memory several zeros.

With the original Blaser mount, when swaping the scope from between rifles, I indeed noticed some lateral deviation because it was not easy to adjust the tension in the 2 claws like it used to be.

But with my classic daylight scopes, that stay always on the same rifles, I have never had any issue with the original Blaser mount and same thing with the Negele and the HMS Samo.

 

[Tanks]

In all honesty I never thought I would really become a Blaser guy. Now that I own 5 R8’s I guess I qualify as one.

In all seriousness, why? The appeal of R8 is being the Swiss Army Knife of guns where one can change, bolts, barrels, stocks etc. to make it fit any occasion. I can see owning 2, one a safari model for DG and another for plains game.

 

[Daisy]

This mount is great with its 2 levers working like a torque driver. I use it with a thermal scope keeping in memory several zeros.

With the original Blaser mount, when swaping the scope from between rifles, I indeed noticed some lateral deviation because it was not easy to adjust the tension in the 2 claws like it used to be.

But with my classic daylight scopes, that stay always on the same rifles, I have never had any issue with the original Blaser mount and same thing with the Negele and the HMS Samo.
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I agree a non QD is the most stable. But I swap my thermal around to almost everything so the Innomount zero best I’ve found.

 

[BeeMaa]

In all seriousness, why? The appeal of R8 is being the Swiss Army Knife of guns where one can change, bolts, barrels, stocks etc. to make it fit any occasion. I can see owning 2, one a safari model for DG and another for plains game.

I have a few that I like to keep set up for specific things. One for 22lr and varmints, another for my 300WM & 375H&H. I'd like one with a 257WBY barrel that I could put a thermal on for night hunting predators. And possibly one more for a 416RM Selous barrel...maybe but I'm still not sure.

 

[BeeMaa]

@Daisy - This is the mount I will be getting for the Swaro rail scopes and the current ones from Contessa I'll sell. If anyone is interested, let me know.