Recent content by fnmauser

US Optics won't say.... They won't say their source for their glass. I think the only source for optic grade glass in the US is Schott (German company) in Pittsburg PA. They made the space shuttle windows. Leupold doen't make enough of the scope to put made in USA on it. I think the cutoff is...

Your talking about the purely decorative gold ring at the front objective bell? The one that has the power and model on it? As in the wider gold ring that says Leupold VX-III 4.5x14 printed around it? They are all lose and will rotate. I checked mine and I've got several and they all rotate and...

Re: Favorite Poems (let\'s collect some) So dissapointed in you guys. Here it is. "twas only by a favour of mine, quoth he, ye rode so long alive. There was not a rock for twenty miles,there was not a clump of tree, But covered a man by my own men with his rifle cocked on his knee. It I had...

Does it have a three peice bolt like the 700? How is the bolt handle attatched to the bolt body? So it has the Sako type extractor.......nice! I'm looking at one but just "started" my search. I wonder if you could put a bolt shroud safty on one like you can the 700? Are the parts such as the...

If anyone is interested. Very nice item. http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=7245722813

I recently got a new "name" cut rifled barrel put on my FN mauser rifle by a top flight benchrest gunsmith.Visually the barrel and chambering look supurb. Before with the factory barrel it was a 1-1.5 MOA rifle. I've shot it and with the exact same rest/loads/mounts/scope/shooter its now a 3"...

I called Leupold and the guy told me that at 25X the mildots crosshairs covered 1/2 inch at 100 yards. That seems like a mighty thick crosshair at 25X at 100! If they cover that much how big is a "mil"dot at 25X in this scope? They said the reticle was etched on another "extra" lens compared to...

Ok for deer and coyotes you can't beat a 125 Nosler BT out of a 30/06, fast and flat with a "good" bc. Never shot a bear but I would want something heavier like a 165 partition. The 125 Nosler dumps the deer in their tracks. Biggest deer I've ever shot was 9 pointer at 265 yards and he just...

This is a easy one! Get the new reduced recoil loads for that 30/06 from Remington. Milder kick than a .243 and a bullet designed to expand at lower velocitys and will kill deer much better than any 6 mm bullet. I have brittle bone disease and shoot a 06 with "youth" loads and don't mind the...