Mitty38
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Nice mod, too bad you could not get the kinks worked out. Beautiful wood.
My cast bullet dream rifle.
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CWLONGSHOT
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Dosent it for all of us my friend!!
Charles Graff
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375 Whelen
Petrol & Powder
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Fully-milled action (Well I certainly wouldn’t pay $12K for an action they stopped milling half way before they were finished !)
made of special steel (Like it contains Kryptonite ? Or did they just specify a particular alloy?)
cold-hammered forged barrel, (just like every other modern production rifle)
optimised trigger (Oh, it's Optimized – That sounds much fancier than properly fitted and adjusted)
plasma nitride steel parts ( Wow, they used the word “plasma”; that must be worth a lot)
front sling swivel, front and rear sight on the barrel ring and finally a horizontal three-position safety. (Never seen those features before………)
Hand picked blank, (because we tried to use robots to pick a piece of wood out of a pile of similar looking pieces of wood and it just didn’t work as well)
Walnut stock. (OK, that’s probably worth more than one made from Pine or Birch….,)
Each rifle is unique and its parts hand fitted with each other – (You know, so it will actually function when we put all those parts together. Like a 1911 or Savage 110 or a $10 watch?)
I don’t think I could trade the amount of time and work that it would take me to earn $12,000 for that rifle. It’s pretty but it’s not THAT pretty.
made of special steel (Like it contains Kryptonite ? Or did they just specify a particular alloy?)
cold-hammered forged barrel, (just like every other modern production rifle)
optimised trigger (Oh, it's Optimized – That sounds much fancier than properly fitted and adjusted)
plasma nitride steel parts ( Wow, they used the word “plasma”; that must be worth a lot)
front sling swivel, front and rear sight on the barrel ring and finally a horizontal three-position safety. (Never seen those features before………)
Hand picked blank, (because we tried to use robots to pick a piece of wood out of a pile of similar looking pieces of wood and it just didn’t work as well)
Walnut stock. (OK, that’s probably worth more than one made from Pine or Birch….,)
Each rifle is unique and its parts hand fitted with each other – (You know, so it will actually function when we put all those parts together. Like a 1911 or Savage 110 or a $10 watch?)
I don’t think I could trade the amount of time and work that it would take me to earn $12,000 for that rifle. It’s pretty but it’s not THAT pretty.
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While some might consider it overkill, the 458 works well on squirrles; you just have to head shoot them or you ruin too much meat.
Mitty38
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Always wanted to do a Mauser action in the German round 9.3 X 62 .
It's a real thumper, But get on the over seas sights, these guys are doing some severe down loading on these things. Basically it is one of the few approved rounds in certain countries. And people are limited to amount of guns ect. So those fellows using it have developed a lot of loads. So a lot of load data if you are willing to dig for it.
I understand from searching some foreign sights that the round can be seriously down loaded, and can be drastically manipulated with bullet weight. Plus I think it would be cool to have a big European, game round. It wound kill anything that moves in these 50 States with a lead bullet efficiently.
It's a real thumper, But get on the over seas sights, these guys are doing some severe down loading on these things. Basically it is one of the few approved rounds in certain countries. And people are limited to amount of guns ect. So those fellows using it have developed a lot of loads. So a lot of load data if you are willing to dig for it.
I understand from searching some foreign sights that the round can be seriously down loaded, and can be drastically manipulated with bullet weight. Plus I think it would be cool to have a big European, game round. It wound kill anything that moves in these 50 States with a lead bullet efficiently.
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RBHarter
West Central AR
2100 fps MV with a 35 cal 250 is a lot of hurt .
An 85gr RNFP over 3-4 Red Dot would probably knock the snot out of 50 yd golf ball . I don't remember now what that 360066 weighed but about the same as 0000B and there's a 300 gr out there too . 358 , 9×57 , 35 Whelen would be tough to better under 250 gr .
An 85gr RNFP over 3-4 Red Dot would probably knock the snot out of 50 yd golf ball . I don't remember now what that 360066 weighed but about the same as 0000B and there's a 300 gr out there too . 358 , 9×57 , 35 Whelen would be tough to better under 250 gr .