[QUOTE=Sarvo;904418]Actually - I a bit wrong I dinkQuote:
Originally Posted by Shootm
His was 243
But same Sak model and scope yes ?
Printable View
[QUOTE=Sarvo;904418]Actually - I a bit wrong I dinkQuote:
Originally Posted by Shootm
His was 243
But same Sak model and scope yes ?
Holden's favourite was the Sako Forrester (not Vixen) .243 with a Leupold 3x. Then there was his BSA Hunter 7x57 with 4x Pecar in his early days as a culler.Quote:
Originally Posted by Sarvo
I think Phil used a BSA .222 as well. This might have been in between the 7x57 and 243, when triple twos were all the rage. Old news but the cullers appreciated the accuracy, lack of recoil, mild report, and more ammo for a given weight.Quote:
Originally Posted by 10-Ring
Yep, just finished reading Pack & Rifle again which I received for a birthday present in 1973. Phil Holden bought a used BSA .222 from Hamills in Rotorua while working in the Kaiangaroa forest in 1962.Quote:
Originally Posted by 7.62
Eventually sold it after losing a succession of deer in the Kawekas to fellow cullerJim Stegman who used it for a while and then on sold it to Bill Nikl. Holden went back to his BSA 7x57
Brno Fox2, my new bunny and fallow zapper, just need to find some lower mounts for my VX3. Wanted one of these for ages
Attachment 121766
My Mums old ML22 was pretty much past it though it still functioned. A prominent gunsmith told me to hang it on the wall and tell stories about it but with the taxpayer offering $700 and knowing what Mum would have thought about this affair I took the cash, added in a couple of hundred and picked this up
Out with the old (just the bottom one. Grandads winchester has been modded.
[img]https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/...6087e50a_k.jpgpost by Sneeze again, on Flickr[/img]
in with the new
[img]https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/...da2a2ffb_k.jpgIMG_1311 by Sneeze again, on Flickr[/img]
just spend all morning looking at this awesome bling
my regret list as follows
bsa hunter in 257 robt
zkk601 in 270 with a push forward hair
222 sako vixen
96 in 6.5x55
32/20 lever
357 magnum south american(pig shooter )boar nearly won the round one time there
if one of you gents wants to send me their mob no i might be able to work this fancy cell to take and send some pics of a bit of walnut and action,,both singles
im quite unable to post pics,,its worse than being dyslexic
Thanks to @jakewire my CZ550. 375 H&H now has a little brother 7mm rem mag
Attachment 122406
@Harryg sounds good, but I can't see the pic
try again
Attachment 122423
very good now where is the .22-250?????
The 22-250 is a really nice wee gun but when Mum said why don't you buy the CZ ?Quote:
Originally Posted by Micky Duck
Well something had to give
Also have to say she haggled a good deal with the shop
Great stuff Harry.
shit I just dribbled all over my keypad...
Well that was worth waiting to see, a superb "re purpose" of what I take is a ZG47 ??
If you chopped it to 16” and put a suppressor on it’d pretty useful
Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
Nah, Allen used one of my old FN large ring mauser actions from a Husky. The ZG photo is on the ‘BRNO 601 rings’ thread (but the photo keeps rotating has a mind of its own)!Quote:
Originally Posted by Tentman
Attachment 122685Attachment 122686
ZG47 alongside original but refinished spare stock, and Ruger 416 Rigby with stock refinished (weight loss diet with internal reinforcing, bedding etc), next to the 9.3
Boy you got some nice stuff @HandH , the spare ZG stock has an unusual chequering pattern to grip , did you cut that ? Do your ZG rifles have cheek pieces ?
Neither of the ZG stocks have cheekpieces. Both have factory checkering, the spare one with black recoil pad was originally on rifle, Kevin Gaskill just brushed up the finish and ran over the checkering. The original stock is slightly slimmer in all proportions, especially the wrist. Kevin restocked the Sako L579 Forester 308 too.Quote:
Originally Posted by Lucky
It’s a very nice bit of wood on that spare stock for a Fifties Brno , never seen one with that little reverse finger of checkering where you thumb goes over , just when you think you know all variations something new shows up , very cool thanks for sharing
Nice.Quote:
Originally Posted by HandH
Very nice
Awesome. Love the Allen Carr rifle - he does bloody nice work.
A couple more "Rescues" as it were , arrived within the last week with nothing done except I've had a a sissy pad put on the 1960's 30 06. It's gong to end up stripped and re stained with the pictured euro scope on
The 30 30 is 31 years old, an 'as' Model with the 336 receiver and barrel but the birch [I think] stock.
It's going to end up with the pictured close to period 23yr old Vari x 11 2-7 and nothing else done , I want it as it is. It has had almost no work, the loading gate has wear on the very tip only, I've had a bore scope down and it's immaculate.
Attachment 122823
Shoot here a few weeks ago had a nice haul.top to bottom PH safari 3006, large ring huski 9.3x57, small ring huski 9.3x62, obendorf mauser 9.3x62, the last 2 are the work of Alan Carr
wouldnt want to part wit that lovely small ring husky Mr henry
I saw this, can't afford any more guns for a while, and got it as fast as my fingers could pound the keyboard.
It is a Nagel & Menz, Hofbuchesenmaker to Kaiser and King Strasbourg U Baden drilling from 1887 and bears a royal crest.
It's 16ga and possibly 10.5X47R, and the bores are mirror. I think I can modify 45-70 brass to get the rifle shooting.
[image]https://i.imgur.com/oZW2eh3.jpg[/image]
[image]https://i.imgur.com/YClOzNW.jpg[/image]
[image]https://i.imgur.com/6IlSUvK.jpg[/image]
[image]https://i.imgur.com/oyfJW05.jpg[/image]
I'm especially fond of the 9,3s, and those three made my tongue hard. :thumbsup:Quote:
Originally Posted by Marty Henry
This is my only 9,3X62 at present. It's a large ring Husqvarna commercial action with a Timney Sportsman trigger I tossed in. It shoots sub-MOA with anything it's fed, characteristic of the 9,3X62.
That bottom gun was a Baikal 45-70 DR I had. $omeone wanted it a lot more than I did. I can't seem to delete the photo.
Attachment 124452
Attachment 124453
Like like like, guns like that are sex on a stick. It probably cost less than a modern Holland and Holland or Purdy I'm guessing.Quote:
Originally Posted by luv2safari
Quote:
Originally Posted by Marty Henry
It was the price of a Benelli Ethos at Cabela's. No way I could afford it right now, but I couldn't afford not getting it. These are my heroin and meth. I get a definite high from squiggly engraving. :drool:
It’s a beautiful thing alright. Having handled it I’m even more envious. It’s sparked Sako 85 wooden stock desire in me. Be careful not to stroke it too much.Quote:
Originally Posted by Shearer
A 223 has joined the merry band of Mausers that reside in my cabinet - and its set to become a full team member despite its modest beginnings in life.
Top is the Brno Model 21/German barreled 8x57 that I've posted before.
Middle is the 6.5x47 Mauser Kurz original sporting rifle from 1921 (superbly rebarreled/rebuilt from a wreck by Dave Ward) - also posted before.
Bottom is the newest recruit - a 223 Zastava "mini mauser" (so called, they are a fairly distant cousin to a true 1898). It has earned its right to sit with them though, its shooting consistent 3 shot groups of 20mm with 55gn factory ammo at 100 yards, once I get a reload sorted (and it is stabilizing 65gn Sierra's ok) I reckon smaller groups might be on the cards. For those who think the Zastava is always going to be a pigs ear to cycle, this one is pretty darned good. I found that the sear on these often rides too high, causing excess drag on the bolt. Its a simple shim fix to drop it a bit and it improved this one heaps - its not a Vixen but its dammed close, and functions perfectly - for an on the hill varminter, it'll be hard to beat as its the same weight, accuracy and much nicer to carry as the stock doesn't have the squared profile of a Vixen. And after 2 Howa mini's this one has a trigger I can actually shoot well right from scratch.
Attachment 124696
Did you buy the .223 new? 'scope?Quote:
Originally Posted by Tentman
Bought secondhand of TM, I got a bit lucky I think as its a hard rifle to photograph well, the stock is a surprisingly nice bit of dark hard walnut - consequently its a tad heavier that they are supposed to be. Scope is a Tasco World Class 3-9 for now, its perfectly functional but I'd like to get better glass on it at some stage. Came with 110 rounds of Frontier 55 gn, which it seems to like just fine. It shoots everything I've put through it to pretty much the same point of impact at 100 yards, so I'd like to get a "if I stumble across a deer on the side of the road" load sorted with a heavier projectile ( @Tahr might explain !!)
64 grain Winchester power point factory for " stumble across a deer "
I always had a mag of it for the AR just in case
Now I'm using it in the G2
I have 12 boxes of it here if you want a few ?
