When did buyers start rejecting/down grading for belly fur?...some years ago there was talk about not taking belly fur, or separating it from the main crop but I don't think anything came of it...I...
Liked On: 15-08-2020, 10:10 AM
Making a D reamer is a piece of cake. Start with a piece of 10 or 12mm silver steel and a good accurate drawing. Face and centre drill the rod then extend it from the chuck about 75mm to give you...
Liked On: 15-08-2020, 09:56 AM
I clean my firearms. Not as much as I used to, mainly for lack of use, but also because I discovered: Clean your barrel, bust the zero, need to re zero. But just occasionally I hear of some...
Liked On: 14-08-2020, 11:16 PM
556 or wd40 is great for cleaning, oiling not so much.
Liked On: 14-08-2020, 11:15 PM
Oops, sorry your Honour /your Lordship/Your Grace/ Ma'am / (substitute as appropriate). I won't mention that again.
Liked On: 14-08-2020, 11:14 PM
I'm with you on this one re the Benelli. I have one but I always clean it at the end of the season and if it gets wet but my brother and the way he treats his Super Black Eagle has always appalled me...
Liked On: 14-08-2020, 11:13 PM
A related question... How do you know when you get leading? Is it easy to see down the bore (like carbon) or at the muzzle (like copper)?
Liked On: 14-08-2020, 11:02 PM
At subsonic it should never foul just clean with solvent and a few patches it is like a big .22RF, The lube is mostly wax a bit like car wax, all that is in the bore is powder residue no scrubbing...
Liked On: 14-08-2020, 10:54 PM
so....you talking lead/throat.... well to my simple non engineering mind you garden variety drill bit has what 45 degree angle ,you run correct size in to remove the rifling to required depth...then...
Liked On: 14-08-2020, 10:31 PM
Refurbished a reloading tool for a calibre you don't own! You are truly a far gone handloader. Something for we lesser mortals to aspire to. Respectively Yours, Grandpamac.
Liked On: 14-08-2020, 10:18 PM
So with the prospect of doing a vintage hunt ( hunters and rifles ! ) I loaded up 17 rounds of 500 express. 147513 They are pretty heavy so I put them in the scales out of interest. So 20...
Liked On: 14-08-2020, 10:11 PM
That's how bolt actions started out (and every other weapon for that matter)!
Liked On: 14-08-2020, 09:21 AM
If Isaac Newton were to turn in his grave would he think about which way first?
Liked On: 14-08-2020, 09:20 AM
Out of curiosity why do ball powders get a bad rep for accuracy?
Liked On: 13-08-2020, 08:51 PM
Dunno. Barrel shoots straight, that’s pretty much the sum of it.
Liked On: 13-08-2020, 08:48 PM