What he said- I believe that is the main reason. speed loading is a secondary advantage
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You can still buy .455 ammo at most gunshops now, it's back in production
I got this. Sako Bavarian in .375H&H. Has a set trigger which is sweet.
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Been cleaning this old .280 Ross for the NZDA Heritage Trust, some of you may have seen it on our Facebook page. It's Archie Kitto's old rifle and when I removed the buttplate I found the original registration from 1921 inside. The pic of Frank Kitto and the "Big Chief" Stag from the Albert Burn was taken in 1922- the rifle in the image is the same one. Very cool.
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Oh boy, my dream rifle. Very jelly!
Saw that on FB the other day, very cool
Thats a great piece of NZ stalking heritage :)
nice, what is the wording carved into the stock?
Das Beste oder Nichts
Translates to "The Best or Nothing"
Mercedes Benz used it a lot for marketing.
A previous owner had it done.
Good caliber too for such a nice rifle
I bought a old Sako, AV in 7x64 a mouth or two back, super nice rifle,:thumbsup: nicest trigger ive had on a factory rifle in ages, been doing a bit of load work, and decided the cheep 3x9 Leopold, wasn't doing the rifle justice, so a new scope Z3 bought for my cooper single shot, and a swapped that scope to the Sako 7x64.
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Pretty Impressive accuracy , but finding load data is pretty anemic, Hornardys new 10th addition showing 200fps difference between the 7x65 and 7x64, sister cartridges I had thought, Ive found factory 173gr S&B doing 2600fps and the current Max load data for 154gr and 162 gr Hornardy, cup and core SST ELD-X is giving me 2600 and 2570 at max with H4350, 50g and 49gr with the 162gr, :wtfsmilie:
Back to range perhaps tonight, and will see what a bit of extra powder delivers, trying up to 55gr with the 154gr.
Bugger all, suitable powder in town at present, only R19 and 7828, I try r19 if todays results are still slow.
Nice looking rifle! In my 7x65R I'm useing 57.5gr ADI2213sc with a 162 amax for 2750 fps.
Saved some walnut and blued steel. Gun shop had some parts guns on sale and I liked the look of the butt stock on this one. No safety, magazine or bolt and no rifling visable with all the dirt and dust in the barrel $50.00 and it came home on thursday.After a good scrub barrel looked good and smooth, sluged at .311 so replaced the missing bits from my parts bin, the first bolt head head spaced perfect and oiled the woodwork. Shot it at my 200 yd gong this morning 5" group with 180 gr Highland.
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1939 BSA
Nice work, gotta be Happy with that result!
Very happy I have a scoped no1 mkIII that will do 1.5" at 100 yds this one if scoped may do the same. I wonder how many good barrels get dumped because of other faults.
That's really good especially for an Enfield, definitely makes you think aye.
The butt stock on that rifle is one of the ones made by Pat Neville when he was working for Joe White in New Brighton in the late '60's. Pat was a first-class stockmaker of world standard. Those early SMLE sporting butt stocks were very comfortable to shoot. The stock is worth much more than you paid for the rifle!:thumbsup:
I could tell it was high quality as soon as I saw it and have a nice sporter that would have benefitted. As it turned out the BSA is a better shooter and the stock does feel very good.
Had a go with this little honey last weekend. 7x57R K95 Stutzen
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Very nice!!
Very cool
Been looking at getting a takedown rifle for quite a while, round visiting a mate whos a keen hunter and shooter,
Got talking about takedowns, and I made the comment, "I really like a light weight double, in a medium bore,"
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Fair Iside Safari, in 9.3x74, and 20ga, with Interchanagble chokes. super light weight 6lbs 1 oz with the rifle barrel, I've already been out to the range, and hammered 30 rounds with it, Brilliant handling rifle offhand, bit of a mule on the bench.
Pd less than my Fair shotgun cost me, including rounds, brass and dies, and got a 1903 Mannlicher, fullstock Carbine in 6.5x54 MS, :cool:for an extra $500, Sweet rifle, too, been trying to pry it off him, for a couple years.
Defiantly would been cheaper, to buy the Winchester takedown,
That is something you don't see every day, I bet the recoil is stout in a 6pd unit!!
Very nice
Very nice, would make a great moose or bear rifle.
Very nice mate!
Finally got this home.
Small ring Mauser action,Swaro scope,reknagel swing off mounts,reknagel open sights,fancey engraving etc.
Shoots as well as it looks,its in 8X57 Mauser.
@norsk very nice
Please excuse my ignorance, but what is the funny shaped metal thingy inletted just above the trigger?
Setting and adjustment of the set trigger?
@Shamus thank you
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You would think the upside down model would be cheaper.
Well I posted up the Fair double 9.3x74, a page or so back, part of that deal, was to pry a fine 1903 Mannlicher, out of a Friends hands, hell of a deal for $500,
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Borrowed this while in the UK for some target practice in 243
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