Recent content by 318AE

Good Lord. Given that we’re fortunate enough to have Rigby as a sponsor here, and they have joined this thread, can we just address the question to them and listen to their answers, vs all the speculation by shade tree gunsmiths? Or just buy snaps caps?

I was in Berlin this last weekend, as I needed to be in Potsdam this week. What a shit show. Except for my 18C hotel room, everything was a sweat drenched misery. I first thought there might be brown outs or electricity failures, but given so very little has AC, I doubt that is really a...

That’s good. I’ve never heard of a steel jacketed soft point.

I think some of the Woodleighs, and for that matter the old Kynochs were steel jacketed (under a copper guild deeper than the rifling of course). I’ve always been leery to use modern monolithic bullets in vintage doubles, as I think that material exposed to the rifling may be harder and don’t...

I think that one is a little friendlier to reload - it doesn’t have the super thin case walls, and needs less filler….

It’s almost certainly the 400 Jeffery 3”, but needs to be checked. I’ve had two vintage Jeffery 450 400, but a regular and tropical proofed one. Neither liked the Hornady factory ammo in terms of regulation. I think the component bullets could work, but recommend Woodleigh. Most any vintage...

Super cool rifle. I believe the previous scope mounted to the hole on the side of the action opposite the ejection and the hole at the rear of the island sight.

So, I‘m genuinely curious. It seems like the preponderance of the pro CBL argument is based on “it’s legal” (in South Africa). Are you supportive of the South Africa Expropriation Act, which allows seizure of land without compensation? It’s also legal. Are you supportive of that law if it...

375Fox summed it up well. The roughly .3 sectional density rule of thumb for dangerous game dates back to when cup and core bullets were common. Their retained weight was poor and erratic by today’s standard, and additional bullet weight or sectional density was one way to compensate for...

We had segregated units when your grandfather (and my four uncles who had terrible, under treated “shell shock”) served, correct? Sounds like a lot has changed for the better over the generations. My great grandfather was in the civil war, fighting for Texas (the confederacy). I doubt it’s...

The third rail of the politics thread is expressing knowledge or expertise based on watching a few sensationalized podcasts or anecdotes. There is a certain participant, here from Ontario that does the same thing. He gets a similar reaction.

Something gives me the sense you’re not really going to need to check your PMs.

To each their own. To me, a plastic stock on a RSM is not in keeping with an express rifle and at least a $1,000 reduction in value, and that’s only because Numrich had NOS walnut stocks available. We can all just look at the recent auction results on RIA or similar to determine market...

If you can find a foam backing rod at a Home Depot or similar, that is about the right diameter, it’s much simpler than dacron. Just straighten it out and cut it into consistent lengths, so it is slightly compressed. I measure how deep the powder is from the cartridge mouth and subtract the...

If you are far enough north it will connect to Kenya. I know people bring them in, even though they are prohibited.