Recent content by housebuilder56

I know this is an old thread but they show up in search results so reply may still be of benefit. I use a Sinclair hand primer. Not the fastest but that wasn't the original question. From my perspective it works the best over all. But I can't quite figure out how the OP determined that .001...

I have owned and shot just about every major brand of varmint gun and I don't believe you can get a more accurate rifle for the money than a Savage. You can spend more money and get fancier rifles but Savage is hard to beat. Once they are shot in (broken in) they are very accurate and...

I've been shopping for a new varmint rifle and decided I didn't want to have a custom gun built. I told myself it was a cost issue but the truth is I don't want to wait to have another one built. So I decided to look at all of the rifle manufacturers without any bias and buy the best shooting...

I will give your idea a try. Can't imagine any company making "varmint" scopes and not offering a sun shade but it is low end I guess. BSA is probably made in China like everything else these days. The company though is the same one who use to make weapons in WWII and motorcycles there after...

Yes, I know this is an old post but couldn't resist. I lived in Oregon all my life untill 1999 when I moved to east coast. I miss Oregon all the time. I shot deer and elk and pheasants and varmints. There just weren't that many formal shoots anywhere back then. Loved to shoot varmints in...

A friend gave me a BSA Sweet 17 8-16x40 scope for my Savage .17HMR. Inexpensive scope but works remarkably fine on this rifle shooting grey diggers. The scope needs a sunshade to be more effective and I can't seem to find one anywhere for it (BSA says they don't have them even though they have...