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    Need info/help on Polish Vis Radom

    Meant to do sad face. Sorry about that. Correct emoji now in place.
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    Help figuring out a Model 70.

    Short action released in 1980, along with general improvements to the entire range, if I recall the story correctly.
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    Super Un-Snipery Project-Wm Moore 10 ga Hammer Double.

    Did those gorse scratches draw much blood? 🙂
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    JH Hall Rifle Build.... It's vintage... if not totally snipery...

    Not cheating. Common sense 🙂. Holland & Holland got a lead on other gunmakers by building brand new premises in the late 19th century and fitting out the workshops with the best machine tools they could obtain. They stayed there until early this century and reportedly only took one old machine...
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    JH Hall Rifle Build.... It's vintage... if not totally snipery...

    I eagerly anticipate your next progress report on this project. I recall that Pratt and Whitney set up the original BSA, Steyr and Lithgow machinery.
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    French FRF2 Sniper rifle

    Most likely to accommodate a drill round for practice. Percussion rifles were sometimes fitted with an actual snap cap, which also served to keep water out of the channel to the chamber and was attached to the rifle via what we now call bath plug chain. I have occasionally taken my own...
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    Shooting Squirrels in the Head at 100 Feet Offhand...Fantasy or Reality?

    Designed to destroy German fuel dumps. Perfected as an anti-personnel weapon by the RAF ‘Hurri-bomber’ force fighting the Japanese.
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    Shooting Squirrels in the Head at 100 Feet Offhand...Fantasy or Reality?

    I know a guy who neck-shot a possum @30m with a Norinco JW15, at night. He used the open sights and illumination provided by a spotlight held by another member of our pest control party. He is, however, an ex-RAF pistol team member.
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    Venezualan mauser

    You need to remember that a tree is a large water pump. Timber dimensions can change, due to differences in humidity between the supplier’s location and the customer’s location. Whenever we fit new timber windows to a house we always have to plane down the sashes (same with French doors). If the...
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    Blast shield

    I would go for a ‘hit and miss’ approach, provided that it does not involve too much hardware. A picket fence uses the ‘hit and miss’ system i.e., if you use 45x20mm (ex 50x25) palings as we do here in NZ; and use same size palings as 45mm spacers, you can disrupt the wind currents to create...
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    Minimum Magnification

    A nice clear 4x will work on a dull day BUT when your paper target starts reflecting the sun, anything from 6x to 10x may be necessary, in my experience.
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    CZ 457

    Yeah. Shame that SCSA haven’t gone there yet. I have seen a Howa .22 long rifle, fitted with a TSP stock, as opposed to the standard plastic stock which influenced me to buy a Ruger .22 WMR bolt-action instead of the Howa equivalent. Jaco, who is NZ Outdoors’ Howa brand ambassador, brought the...
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    Winchester 1885 Low Wall

    Beautiful rifle. Thank you.
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    Maxim MG's in Ukraine

    Pretty cool! I understand that the Russians kept their Maxims in service on the Chinese border until the 90s because the PLA did not give up on human wave attacks until after the Vietnam débâcle. No surprise that there are still some Maxims in Ukraine. Question is … do they have the tools...
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    Baddest military action - based target/sniper rifle

    The Aussie snipers appear to have done far better with the No. 3 Sniper rifles, built on Winchester Pattern 14 rifles.
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    Baddest military action - based target/sniper rifle

    NZ SAS .220 Swift using Norma factory ammo.
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    CZ 457

    SK has a narrower rim diameter than most .22lr ammunition which is why it dies not extract very well with original T Bolt rifles which have a weak extractor spring and poor extractor leverage. It will extract reliably from a Brno or CZ rifle with original barrel BUT if the Lilja barrel has a...
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    Snipery Australian Owen semi-auto SMG build FINISHED W/VIDEO

    To keep out Serbian sh*theads who refuse to get vaccinated? 🙂
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    Some vintage in need of restoration....

    We used those pouches to hold SLR L1A1 20 round mags. I still have a couple on a belt order set up for bush stalking. Better rifle, in my estimation, for going bush and crawling through mud BUT the M14 has a better reputation for performance in nice clean range conditions.
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    Worst trade ever.

    Minute of deer chest @ up to 200 meters, when you have not just fired off 40-50 rounds; minute of pig chest up to about 75 metres; the latter being the maximum practical hunting range of any Ruger 44 Magnum Carbine - self-loading, live-action or turn bolt-action! There is a reason why the...
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