Winchester 1885 50 Eley Aka 500 3" BPE Aka 50-140 1890 production Absolutely original Mechanically perfect Bore is 8 maybe 9/10 30" #3 barrel Perfect wood
Liked On: 28-05-2022, 10:57 PM
Another one of my projects, a new stock for my old Winchester 70 fwt in .30/06. To me the Winchester model 70 was always the handsomest of rifles. She always shot well, any weight of bullet into...
Liked On: 06-04-2022, 06:22 PM
Yeh, looks V familiar. My opinion is he was lucky it was stolen, most frustrating rifle I ever owned.
Liked On: 22-02-2022, 03:25 PM
i have a positive attitude to switch barrel rifles . . if you want to try a .17hmr or .22magnum for awhile but want to have the option of going back to a .22lr it will work for you. If you want to...
Liked On: 10-02-2022, 10:57 AM
Greetings Stefanhope, I read through your post and responces to date, most of which suggested you load up a batch and go hunting or words to that effect. This is good practical advice. Long ago I...
Liked On: 19-01-2022, 10:17 PM
Method I used a break barrel, spring powered Weihrauch HW95 in 22 cal. Pellets were H&N Field Target Trophy 14.66 gr at MV 680 f/s, giving 16 ft.lb at the muzzle and 14 ft.lb at the test range of...
Liked On: 31-12-2021, 05:18 PM
Well you’ve all gone for top shelf stuff so far havent you. Surely there's some good in an affordable airgun. Shameless plug for an airgun thread...
Liked On: 27-12-2021, 09:48 PM
I think something important is to look for a scope that suits your action/rifle, I see a heap of setups with VX5/6 and NX8 (as an example only as these two stand out to me on a lot of setups) and...
Liked On: 16-12-2021, 11:41 AM
This was today's project to get the front one of these 44 1/2s scope fitted Much more interesting and challenging 185331
Liked On: 09-12-2021, 04:32 PM
Had this a while but it never gets old.184808
Liked On: 04-12-2021, 05:22 PM
As promised, some preliminary results from the Beyer barrel. For those who haven't heard of these before, it's a 4140 steel rifled liner fitted inside a 7075 aluminium blank - similar construction to...
Liked On: 29-11-2021, 03:02 PM
A few here will have seen the issues I had with a Grey Birch 10/22 barrel - detailed here: https://www.nzhuntingandshooting.co.nz/f15/grey-birch-10-22-barrel-66079/ Well, in a roundabout way I...
Liked On: 08-11-2021, 06:38 PM
Have wanted a "classic" rifle for a while now and kind of kept a half hearted eye on the forum and trademe etc for one to come up and this rifle came up on the forum a few weeks back. I contacted the...
Liked On: 30-10-2021, 10:33 PM
I have posted this before but it kind of fits into this thread: Pre war small ring Mauser, originally a Military Carbine made by Erfurt. Converted into a Sporter by Wolf in Austria in the 1930s. ...
Liked On: 04-10-2021, 08:47 AM
Ok fellas here’s another one , 1931 Kurz , these are short actions and were made on lots of configurations , eg , Type A with Kurz action , Type M with Kurz action etc , this one is a Type B Kurz in...
Liked On: 02-10-2021, 05:52 PM