Slightly off thread, but we boomers had it easy..I recall going into my local police station in school uniform in about 1963 and telling the cop at the desk I wanted a permit to buy a .22 rifle ( no...
Liked On: 16-03-2020, 04:41 PM
Or, just use the safety as the designers intended
Liked On: 16-03-2020, 11:18 AM
Greetings All, What a blast from the past. It's hardly surprising that we boomers regard, with some amusement, the younger generations sighting in dead on at 100 and dialing for everything beyond...
Liked On: 16-03-2020, 09:23 AM
Us boomers had it easy apparently.
Liked On: 16-03-2020, 09:19 AM
Yup; always sighted the old three-oh and 270 in for 3" at a hundred! :) I think I learnt it from Rex Forrester's "Hunting in NZ" book. I read and re-read that book nightly! It cost me a princely $5...
Liked On: 16-03-2020, 09:18 AM
I don't plan on using a bipod on mine. Having a bipod, and all the other stuff hanging off it like we usually do kind of defeats the point of a light handy rifle. I didn't buy a light gun so I can...
Liked On: 15-03-2020, 02:45 PM
132646 Very happy with it so far. Easy to use, really quick and highly consistant. I straight away checked it against the rbcs balance scale (as you do) and interestingly it too came back to the...
Liked On: 12-03-2020, 10:36 PM
Found it: https://www.lapua.com/new-6-5-creedmoor-large-rifle-primer-cartridge-case/ It seems to be primarily for military purposes - given the military's adoption of the Creedmoor they must be...
Liked On: 12-03-2020, 03:09 PM
You lads totally convinced me to go with the A&D. Both the Australian and NZ distributers called me and i was so impressed i've placed an order with WSI. I'll just see how the manual thrower and...
Liked On: 07-03-2020, 09:33 AM
Aluminium is generally softer than steel. We are talking about clamping something soft (aluminium rings) to something hard (steel receiver). There are many possible variables, but the gist of it...
Liked On: 07-03-2020, 09:17 AM
Steel has 3 times the density of Aluminium. That means, for the same volume/physical size, steel weighs 3 times more than aluminium and is stronger than aluminium (but not 3 times stronger). On the...
Liked On: 07-03-2020, 09:16 AM
I believe Battlefield Las Vegas attribute those problems to worn recoil springs.
Liked On: 02-03-2020, 04:04 PM
Sell it and by a marlin model 60 deluxe. You will be doing yourself a favor as far as accurracy goes and a nice looking rig to boot! Sent from my SM-G950F using Tapatalk
Liked On: 28-02-2020, 07:41 AM
Greetings All, I hesitated to show photos off my reloading set up but here they are:131587131588131589 The desk is an old school desk that has been used temporarily for almost 20 years. Load...
Liked On: 27-02-2020, 01:25 PM
Done that inadvertently with a military .303 case. The primer had been struck just as all the others had. Obviously a dude primer and 'boom' years later. The old Berdan primer struck the other side...
Liked On: 26-02-2020, 11:01 PM