I bought an Arisaka type 99 sporterized two weeks ago.
I have put a barrel on it and chambered for 257 Roberts, first time to use that reamer.
But I have been fooling around making pillars and recoil lugs for days.
I have killed animals with 257 Roberts Ackley rimmed and the 25-06, so I have...
Mule buck 250 yards
Win pre 64 M40 Nightforce NXS 2.5x10x42 Shilen select match barrel
25-06 3.25" 115 gr Nos Bal tip moly 51.5 gr IMR4451 3185 fps chrono 26" barrel
Antelope buck 158 yards
Rem700 Leupold VX-2 Rifle Scope 3-9x 40mm Pac Nor Super match barrel
6mmBR 1.2" 95 gr Nos Bal Tip...
Just got home.
I shot the 2 antelope with 6mmBR 95 gr Nosler ballistic tip 158 and 225 yards
I shot deer with 25-06 115 gr Nosler Ballistic tip 250 yards
I am trying to develop a process for steel bedding Mausers so stocks are interchangeable.
I got up to 12 Mausers bedded and I started to have to barrel actions.
I would like to say that I barrelled some action with 6.5 barrels this week, but my 260 Manson rearm and my 6.5-06 Clymer reamers have...
Twice I have have shot a 270 in a 7mmRemMag. I am now a NAZI about this.
Everything goes wrong while hunting, but the public range before hunting season is worse.
In 2015 I built a Dumoulin Mauser 6.5-06 with Shilen select match 8" twist ratchet rifling stainless steel barrel, Boyds pro varmint laminated painted stock. Sightron SIII 3.5x10 scope Harris swivel bipod. 12.5 pounds as tested.
I tried a couple groups with 142 gr Nos Accu Bond Long Range...
I took off the barrel and the stock and the .185" thick pitted out recoil lug, the Weaver bases.
I cut threads and chamber and installed a Shilen #3 match stainless in 7mmRM, .250" thick Rc42 recoil lug, Bansner High tech specialties ADL stock with large limbsaver recoil pad, Holland recoil lug...
I felt some resentment in ~2000 when Midway dropped free shipping and Potterfield went on safari with antique Winchesters. I had been buying once a week, but without free shipping I started using other suppliers.
Recently Potterfield has been making better gunsmithing youtube videos than I can...
I have lived in WA my whole 65 years and never seen wild sheep.
Now that I know they are here...driving through Vantage, that is where I would look for them.
I have seen them in Glacier National Park WY, H200 in Bonner MT, and found a dead on in the Charles Russell Wildlife Refuge in MT.