Recent content by Limey46

Just another dude here saying the Pro Hunter is a great rifle. I had one in 6.5x55 Swede and loved it, and even now my wallet finger itches whenever I see one. And yeah, I too have an old SSG 69. Yum.

I too have an almost 50-year-old Sako Finnbear L61R. It's a beautiful piece of work and a wonderful shooter.

Agreed. I REALLY want one of those 5" Model 610s. Sorry I took the caliber-contest bait.

One advantage of 10mm is the size of the hole it makes and the weight of the bullet making it -- .40 and 180 grains vs .357 and 158. In a compact revolver, top-end velocity is about equal.

I had a DPMS LR-308 that fired a Rermington factory round before the bolt closed. It blew straight down through the mag well, traumatically disassembling the mag but failing to detonate the ammo therein or damage the receiver or even the bolt.

I have a .204 CZ 527 Varmint with the Kevlar stock. I've never shot the Remington you're considering, but I have experience with a number of other Remingtons. I like my CZ. It's well built and finished, it's spectacularly accurate, and it has a great trigger out of the box. Its flaw is its...

Pros: Total reliability, extreme durability, mechanical excellence, great ergonomics, good sights, quick and simple disassembly, dead-easy maintenance and cleaning, and inexpensive, plentiful parts and magazines. It was "the right arm of the free world" for almost forty years, in many people's...

In your gun selection it might be wise to approach the .44 Marlin 1894 with caution. The gun has had a design flaw throughout its history, well known and documented over the years as "the Marlin jam". Basically, it has trouble feeding .44 Mag ammo reliably and can jam tighter than a bank vault...

Gee. Bolt guns, AR 308 platforms, MiAs, H&K clones...everything a right-thinking person would lay down before picking up his FAL. I mean, the FAL is only the toughest. simplest, most reliable battle rifle ever made.

FYI the rubber slip-on recoil pad for the French MAS 36 and 49/56 rifles fits a No. 5 (Jungle Carbine) very nicely. You just have to cut a little slit for the sling attachment thingy (can't call ity a swivel, can you?). They're still pretty easy to find.

I've hunted hogs for years with the 35 Rem in a nice old Marlin 336, and like everyone else is saying, it's very effective indeed, surprisingly more lethal than the 30-30. I have a stash of factory Winchester/Western ammo from the late 1960s that's a fair bit hotter than the modern stuff, and...

There never was a "wandering zero problem" -- real Jungle Carbines shoot to point of aim all day long -- and Gibbs didn't solve it by using No. 4 actions. They used No. 4s because 1) they were available, while No. 5s weren't, and 2) they could buy ten of them for the price of a No. 5. And both...

A three-inch Model 66-5 and a four-inch, 8-shot Model 627 Pro, plus a four-inch Model 28 converted to .44 Special sometime in the Sixties.

A .358 bullet I've found to be very effective is Speer's 220-grain flat-point. I've never killed a big bear with it, but it's worked just fine on everything else. I too like the idea of a BLR and sometimes I wish I still had one, but in recent years I've formed an affection for my Remington 673...

I enjoyed my DPMS until it fired out of battery (before the bolt closed). Fortunately, it blew straight down, through the magazine -- instant disassembly -- so my face and hands didn't suffer. After that I had trust issues.