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grand veneur reacted to Hunter-Habib's post in the thread 90-year Veteran Of The Bush By Diggory Hadoke with
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You’re 100% spot on. By comparison, the action on this Midland Gun Co. 12-65/.500 Black Powder Express boxlock extractor combination... -
grand veneur reacted to Sarg's post in the thread 90-year Veteran Of The Bush By Diggory Hadoke with Like.
Grand old rifle but probably never saw the inside of a Rigby workshop, most likely even engraved “Rigby” by Webley & Scott !
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grand veneur reacted to Hunter-Habib's post in the thread American Standards For Commercially Manufactured Sporting Ammunition with Like.
Mr. Diesel, The phenomenon with Winchester .458 Magnum ammunition boxes containing some rounds loaded with ball powder and some rounds...
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grand veneur replied to the thread 90-year Veteran Of The Bush By Diggory Hadoke.The box lock action looks like a PHV-1 action from Webley & Scott.
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grand veneur replied to the thread American Standards For Commercially Manufactured Sporting Ammunition.But there is no reason to blame only the American companies. Other manufacturers worldwide and Europeans also, can make mistakes.
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grand veneur reacted to HankBuck's post in the thread American Standards For Commercially Manufactured Sporting Ammunition with Like.
@CZDiesel - I agree with some of your points but when you think about how effective Corporate & Government controls are - think about...
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grand veneur replied to the thread American Standards For Commercially Manufactured Sporting Ammunition.If you look at the daily production of cartridges worldwide, it would be somewhat unrealistic to believe that everything always runs...
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grand veneur reacted to Hunter-Habib's post in the thread American Standards For Commercially Manufactured Sporting Ammunition with Like.
Perhaps, I am confused. But are you being sarcastic ? If you're not, I'm sorry that you found my findings offensive. But if you open...
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grand veneur replied to the thread American Standards For Commercially Manufactured Sporting Ammunition.This seems strange to me too, although it cannot be exclude with absolute certainty. If the bullets differ in terms of alloy but look...
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grand veneur replied to the thread American Standards For Commercially Manufactured Sporting Ammunition.The topic has inspired me to check what I have used in the past and what I still have in stock, but it is mainly about 500gr FMJ bullets...
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grand veneur reacted to Longwalker's post in the thread Bringing 2 guns on a dangerous game hunt? with Like.
When I hunted elephant in that area with CMS two years ago, the elephant hunt was all done the first day. So after that I was hunting...
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grand veneur replied to the thread .458 Lott too much for North American Big game?.I own a custom Brevex rifle caliber 460 Weatherby Magnum without any recoil reducing device. Something like that exists, and it's not...
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grand veneur replied to the thread Crazy! Cow Elephant charge!.It is to be expected that you will be attacked. The cow was certainly dead and for this reason it would have been wiser in a first time...
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grand veneur replied to the thread Dangerous game safari info.There are different kind of hunting, sometimes for the same game species, in this case also for the elephant. I hunted trophy elephants...
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grand veneur replied to the thread 458-338 lapua? Anyone done this?.Not entirely true despite the fact that something like this can be read again and again. Initially, attempts were made to designed the...