Recent content by johnwm

No, I get that and I agree, if having all those chamberings is an attraction to you the Blaser is far superior. But if the Beretta is a success, there's a good chance you will start seeing more and more cartridges being offered, and maybe some from aftermarket barrel makers as well. And of...

I've been a Blaser fan for well over 10 years now; I own/use/enjoy a couple of stock/receiver units and a half-dozen barrels (R93, not the newer R8). All of what you say is true...but if you watch the video, it shows that the Beretta can have the bolthead swapped out at least as fast as the...

Yes, when I read the title of the thread, I knew even before I opened it that it would contain numerous pics of rifles equipped with gigantic full-length pic rails...and long, big-objective scopes all clamped into short little cantilever mounts that actually gripped only a couple inches of those...

Always just used Ruger rings (yes, lapped...) on any application that I considered "permanent" and never experienced an issue. If you take them off and then re-attach, they are usually only about a single MOA off. I do have a #1 that is one of my main and favourite hunting rifles, and I keep...

Okay, thanks for the quick response. :)

I receive a notification by email when a thread to which I have subscribed has a new post. Is there a setting that allows the new post to be seen in that email? Other forums I visit, which seem to have a similar format to this one, allow that choice to be made.

Here in Canada there was an issue a few years back when a major Canadian retailer was found to be sourcing his Leupold scopes from outside the country rather than from the licenced distributor, which resulted in those scopes not being covered by warranty if they were returned to the authorized...

Another one worth looking at is the new Tikka rimfire (T1X). Priced in the same range as the CZ and the one I have is at least the equal of most of my CZ's.

Seeing a snake and thinking that you have had a close call is about like seeing a shooting star and thinking that you almost got struck by a meteor. :) But if I were worried about it, I think Muck boots would be about the last choice I would make. I have a couple pairs, and they are waterproof...

So? Any rifle with a decent barrel should shoot MOA.

I don't shoot one of these, have no suggestions regarding them. I would just point out that you should carefully check into the legality of bringing any ammo with you, into a country that makes it that difficult to import a firearm. I have had a few "blips" at international borders in the past...

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The heat-shrink comparison was simplistic, of course. As far as the rest of it, I don't pretend to be a physicist. Perhaps you could explain, in small words of course, how the interior surface of the bore would experience the phenomenon of contracting molecules actually moving further apart...

Based upon this logic, heat-shrink tubing wouldn't shrink when heated; it would stay the same size but the thickness of the walls would decrease. If you imagine the molecules adjacent to one another on the interior surface of the bore, and then picture them losing energy (cooling) and becoming...

Aaah! So more or less the opposite of what the old-time British gunmakers faced with cordite loads used in tropical climes...but with the same net result, i.e. spiking pressure. Interesting about the engraving forces as well; I never would have thought of that. It's like the old saying: I've...