Recent content by grand veneur

I own a custom rifle caliber 460 Weatherby Magnum built with a Brevex Mauser action, with which I have fired hundreds of rounds over the last 30 years. No sign of any wear.

Stop trying to talk yourselves out of it. If you are really interested, do everything you can to take advantage of the offer. Sure, it is difficult in such a short timeframe because of the Visa, but you want not achieve anything if you don't try.

Interesting, but how relevant are such parameters in practice? It is certainly good to know that when you select a cartridge for hunting DG to be sure that you also bought a suitable firearm for it, but I would not do that only based on such criteria.

I am not so sure about that. Where did you get this information? Armes Prestige is the owner of Armurerie Elysées and is just a seller of high quality hunting rifles. It is for this reason not out of question that these rifles are built in Liège again. That seems to be the case if you search...

The cartridge 8x64 Brenneke was a good cartridge, but she never was really successful because at that time the cartridge 8x57IS was the placeholder in this caliber class. Brenneke had hoped that the Army would be interested, but that was not the case. Thereafter, she had to compete with the...

As I have already mentioned, a drilling is primarily a double shotgun, and that is how it was used in the past. The bullet was only there to allow shooting larger game, if necessary. Nowadays, the drilling is used differently in our countries.

Regarding the steel quality of the various Mauser 98 actions, this generally varies considerably since this action was first produced, and also varies the quality of this actions within the same time period, depending on where and by whom they were manufactured. The FN Mauser actions were...

Some might wonder what Scotland has to do with Alpine terrain, but the topic is about a rifle that habe to been used in a terrain described as Alpine. Such terrain can be found in many very different countries and also are the different concepts regarding rifles and cartridges.

For the little history, David Lloyd is the designer of the cartridge 244 H&H Magnum, which is only called H&H because he gave the right of the cartridge to this company. His first stalking rifles, like the one I have pictured, were delivered in this caliber and were in the practice supposedly...

Had David Lloyd in the past fitted his rifles designed for deer hunting in the highlands with scopes with a higher magnification than 4x32, they would have been perfect classic Alpine rifles. I own one caliber 7mm Rem Mag and it shoots ( sometime ) within 1/2 MOA at 100 meters.

In my opinion, a rifle caliber 270 Winchester or any modern equivalent cartridge caliber 6,5mm/.264 would be sufficient for the specified game species on #1. Rifles in larger calibers and with a Magnum designation need longer barrels to develop their ballistic potential and are therefore heavier.

The heaviest game I had to shot in alpine terrain has always determined my choice of rifle and cartridge. Since the heaviest game in the mountain was the Elk, I have only used larger caliber rifles and therefore not very light and short rifles. I have always placed the priority on external and...

This information is currently disseminated in a lot of languages on the internet. This must be understood in the context of the current climate hysteria and the increasing Biophobia of the population of the high industrialized countries who are living more and more in big cities, completely...

This discussion seems to have taken place on the Forum a few times not too long ago. Unfortunately, we did not reach a consensus because opinions varied greatly and ranged from 22LR to 600 Nitro Express.