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This came up when I was searching something else on youtube. I cringed as soon as I saw the opening image, and unfortunately it went down hill from there. I guess the guy who gave him this rifle to shoot thought it was hilarious, but stupid stunts like that just annoy the hell out of me. I dont...

Just kind of thinking out loud here. I have been giving some though to the rifle market and some of the recent developments we have seen. With the vast majority of rifles now having push feed actions, the very small handful of control round feed actioned rifles that we have had access to now...

So following on from the carrying knives in Africa thread, I am interested to hear from those that DO prefer to carry a fixed blade knife. As an amateur knife maker, I am interested to know if there are any common themes in the knives people prefer to carry while on safari. Just judging from...

I am mounting a new (to me) Swarovski z6EE scope on my 416 Rem. It currently has a 25mm scope mounted on it, so as a minimum I will need a new set of 30mm low rings. I will probably use steel Weaver mounts and looking for opinions of suitable scope rings for this project. Also open to options if...

In the mid 1990s, I decided I needed a bigger bore than my 375H&H. I ended up building a 450 Ackley on a Sako action. It was my first custom rifle. In 1998 I took it on a buffalo hunt in the Zambian Luangwa valley - one of the favourite hunts I have ever done. I loaded up some 500gn Woodleigh...

A couple of times I have tried to get a 425 Westly Richards built in Australia, but I have never been able to find anyone with an interest in actually building one. I realise this is a complicated build and takes someone who knows what they are doing to get a good outcome. But I am still...

This is how my son and I spend one day out of each month - at a club precision rifle shoot as the Melbourne SSAA range. This time we had strong switchy winds that could make it very difficult to work out wind holds on the fly. We shoot off a range of different props, and targets were mostly 1MOA...

I am having some stock work done by a friend, and on my last visit to see him, I left the stock off my 9.3x64 with him as a bit of a template. So for the last 8-10 months, I had had my barreled action sitting in the safe at home out of action. I took some more projects to him on the weekend...

I spoke to a friend a few weeks back about a visit to his property. I mentioned a couple of possible weekends and he said the 30/9-1/10 worked best for him, so we booked it in. Then a week before we were due to leave, I realised it was the Australian Football League grand final weekend with a...

Its been discussed on the forum before, but we still seem to have a very limited selection of low power scopes with eye relief that is suitable for the heavy recoiling rifles. Ideally I would like a low power 1-4 or 1-6 variable that will handle recoil, has a German no4 reticle and 4-5" of eye...

Well, not exactly my first, but bear with me, this will take some explaining. As a young kid, I was fascinated with firearms - military, sporting - if it went bang I was interested. I always loved the outdoors and hunting. I dont really know why, as I had virtually no influence from anyone in...

I want to mount a a red dot on my son's 458 Win, and have narrowed it down to either the Aimpoint Micro H2 with a 2MOA dot, or the Acro C2 which I believe is only available as a 3.5 MOA dot. Just wondering if anyone has any experience with these two? It looks to me like the Acro might sit a...

Just received this from my dealer after it arrived back from interstate. One of the longer running projects that I have had recently. Back in early 2020 when my son 16, he decided he wanted a large calibre rifle for all the buffalo hunts he had planed in the future, plus he thought it would be...

I bought this off the Australian website usedguns.com (kind of the Australian equivalent of Gunbroker. We laughingly call it abusedguns, though there are some really nice rifles on there at times). Its a Fabarm over / under double in 9.3x74 and came with scope mount and a set of simplex dies...