Recent content by Vaughng

Personally I think a 243 winchester is too much gun for such a wee lassie, she will develop a flinch that will impede her future shooting. I would be looking at a 222 /223 to start with and as she develops she can go from there. If you must stick with the 243 use lighter bullets and drop the...

The creedmoor is just a 250/3000 Savage loaded to higher pressure with a high Ballistic Co Effecient VLD projectile. I cannot understand how experienced shooters can be conned by the sales hype that promotes these products, I guess ******** baffles Brains. If you want to shoot elk at these...

I will say this but it will fall on deaf ears, even so I will recite my wife case she had reached a stage where it was impossible to go on.We had both been going to the Gym each morning she was using a machine that built up the muscles surrounding the knee and she had been doing that for 12...

anything interfering with the barrel will cause vertical stringing. Vaughn G in OZ

And we make Hodgson here in Australia and pay a lot more than you guys do. The poor old aussie is really screwed. still while they sell it I will buy it I asked one retailer to put a couple of pound aside I was flabergast when he said No we will only sell it if it is going out the door they are...

MY personal view is that the Short magnums are on the way out. The action is not good for anything else other than another Short Magnum. The prime consideration for your wife should be recoil/ Rifle fit and weight. If she does not feel comfortable with the recoil then she will loose interest...

I have made my own Just normal epoxy I bought powdered stainless steel and filler called Carbosil, when this stuff sets up it is hard as a rock a blow with a hammer in my steel bench did not significantly marr it or bust it. Of course you can modify the consistency by using stiffer grades of...

Hi I am an aussie and in my view the 6.5 creedmoor is nothing more than a 250 savage with high pressure loadings and a Well designed VLD projectile, all thing being equal. I cannot understand what all the hype is about. talk about ******** baffling brains. Then we have all these short magnums ...

Hello guys Vaughn from OZ here, when I was a young man I had a 303/25 with a nearly shot out barrel then they started selling the Belgian made 30/06 Mauser. I was pretty recoil shy and this rifle used to boot me with its military stock, My mentor mate Noel Robinson the local gunsmith cut and...

The relationship between the trigger sear and the cocking piece sear has to be such that with the safety on you can pull the trigger and release it. the trigger returns to its position without interference from the cocking piece sear it does not fire when you let the safety off. What this...

Ruger is every bit as good as any Model 70 and they make a left handed action. Buy the Lad the right rifle from the start PS I live in Australia and I have a Ruger Mk 2 in 308 W it is a tack driver but it has a heavy target barrel I am looking to purchase a Classic model 70 to build a 6.5 06 AI...

Mine was for a different reason I bought a Pedersoli 1886/71 and from the moment I opened the box I fell in love, that was until I came to use it. It had so much headspace (017 inch)that it never did fire off a primer on the first strike( pedersoli's response was to send me a longer firing pin...