Thread: Walnut and blued steel,

Originally Posted by Sideshow

Nice stag that you have there with your BLR. That looks to be an old Belguim made one as well. What caliber is it?
I found it hard to get the scope set up right on mine. Trying to get them low enough so that you could get a decent check wield.
I solved that problem by adding a muzzle break. But with the short barrel it makes it bloody LOUD [/QUOTE]

I had no problem with that scope on it, an ancient steel tube Weaver fixed 3 power. It fitted low and worked fine, right up until it filled up with water about four days before I shot that stag. Perfect white out, and never recovered. I ended up shooting that stag at ten yards, sort of imagining where the cross hairs would be on him.
I would have gone to open sights - but the foresight had been knocked off the week before. First time that ever happened. The rifle also had a broken extractor - it wouldnt extract at all, you had to open the lever and flip the rifle to one side and back to get the case out each time. Oh, and the magazine used to rattle so I had it in place with electricians tape. It used to feed properly sometimes.
Just goes to show you don't need flash gear to shoot deer at all. I don't think anything actually worked on the rifle at all except the trigger.
The only thing I have left of it now is the sling.

I think the BLR's are uglyish, but they are serious hunting rifles. This one is a .308, and yeah its an early Belgium one, with the steel receiver.