Blaser R93 is Retired
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otisthedog
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I bought my r93 secondhand. It had had a hard life, and the forend of the stock was very flexible indeed. If you canted the rifle while on a bipod, the barrel would touch the stock very easily. I had an aluminium plate fitted in the forend and it sorted the flex. However in the meantime I bought another used pro stock from here which is much better. Still flexes more easily than my old t3 lite stock, but at least I'm confident that it now shoots straight consistently. I was told that the r93 was never meant to be used with a bipod (Germans don't use them apparently), but that the r8 was much stiffer in the forend to allow bipod use, following demand from US and UK hunters. Maybe still not perfect eh?!
timbrayford
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If the plastic stock is too flexible for your liking had you thought of the wooden stock options instead?
Incidentally, I had a stud on a plastic stocked r 93 that shot extremely well off the bipod, I fitted a stud onto a wooden stocked r8 but since getting some coaching off Ian Farrington I don't fit the bipod for deer stalking.
Incidentally, I had a stud on a plastic stocked r 93 that shot extremely well off the bipod, I fitted a stud onto a wooden stocked r8 but since getting some coaching off Ian Farrington I don't fit the bipod for deer stalking.
otisthedog
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I much prefer a plastic stock rifle - wooden stocks don't stay unblemished for very long with me, and it's often wet and murky here in the winter when I do most of my stalking. I don't use a bipod very often, but do sometimes and therefore I like to have the option. I have a versapod now that fits on a spigot adapter at the front of the forend. Quick to attach/detach and it doesn't try to 'twist' the stock like a harris can.
The only reason I purchased 2 R93's was because one was for my brother, same for the R8's. Recently I purchased a 3rd R8 frame for myself with 500 Jeffrey barrel. It can be used with a standard frame however the 500 Jeffrey is better used with a steel framed reciever due to the heavier weight.
Blaser blind? Rubbish I have owned a lot of different rifles over the years and choose the Blaser after 40 years of hunting.
I don't Rubbish other brands as many of them are great guns, but the Blaser R8 is my personal choice for a hunting rifle.
Spot on.
Scarlet
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Tim I could never own such a fashionable and stylish wooden blaser stock. Folk on here would think that i`ve turned into a queer..
Our Ian is a generous man, a good coach too. I still have one of his high seats here which I must return to him at some point.
But 40 years of experience Brisbane boy? There`s no fool like an old fool eh. Your Blaser blind for sure. I can see it and everyone else that reads this can see it.. You`d be like an old piece of Blackpool rock if you were broke in two.
Both sides of the fracture would read in dirty savana brown (Blaser) right through the rotten core..
But we do have one thing in common Brisbane. Its my chosen gun for hunting too.
Only I can be honest about the product as well as give an unbiased opinion un like some.
Our Ian is a generous man, a good coach too. I still have one of his high seats here which I must return to him at some point.
But 40 years of experience Brisbane boy? There`s no fool like an old fool eh. Your Blaser blind for sure. I can see it and everyone else that reads this can see it.. You`d be like an old piece of Blackpool rock if you were broke in two.
Both sides of the fracture would read in dirty savana brown (Blaser) right through the rotten core..
But we do have one thing in common Brisbane. Its my chosen gun for hunting too.
Only I can be honest about the product as well as give an unbiased opinion un like some.
I have given an honest opinion.Tim I could never own such a fashionable and stylish wooden blaser stock. Folk on here would think that i`ve turned into a queer..
Our Ian is a generous man, a good coach too. I still have one of his high seats here which I must return to him at some point.
But 40 years of experience Brisbane boy? There`s no fool like an old fool eh. Your Blaser blind for sure. I can see it and everyone else that reads this can see it.. You`d be like an old piece of Blackpool rock if you were broke in two.
Both sides of the fracture would read in dirty savana brown (Blaser) right through the rotten core..
But we do have one thing in common Brisbane. Its my chosen gun for hunting too.
Only I can be honest about the product as well as give an unbiased opinion un like some.
You just don't agree with it and you don't like that.
Oh well never mind.
As they say, water off a ducks back.
timbrayford
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Scarlet
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Brisbane your going around in circles that tight im afraid that you could well disappear up your own bottom..
You asked for "facts" and you`ve been given them. Not only by me I might add..
I`ll say it again just in case it hasn't sunk in. Blaser stocks are plastic mass produced and extremely flexible at the fore ends.
If you choose to use certain bipods with these models it will affect your accuracy.
They will flex with very little effort. So in truth there not exactly the bee`s knee`s like every say`s they are..
If you utilize a variety of shooting positions and aids like me to successfully engage targets then things soon become apparent..
You asked for "facts" and you`ve been given them. Not only by me I might add..
I`ll say it again just in case it hasn't sunk in. Blaser stocks are plastic mass produced and extremely flexible at the fore ends.
If you choose to use certain bipods with these models it will affect your accuracy.
They will flex with very little effort. So in truth there not exactly the bee`s knee`s like every say`s they are..
If you utilize a variety of shooting positions and aids like me to successfully engage targets then things soon become apparent..
Ha!
Is that it?
Common you can do better than that surely?
I made no comment or mention of bipod use. I have never used a bipod and did not, or cannot, comment on using one with any rifle.
You are upset little boy aren't you?
It's okay sometimes people don't agree in life and thats ok.
Just put some tape on your bottom lip to stop it quivering and everything will be okay...
Scarlet
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As a man of integrity Brisbane I neither find the truth to be upsetting or hurtful in any shape or form.
Might be hard to swallow at time`s but you take medicine like a man I say.
It was me who mentioned bipod and correctly not you as you mention in your feverish response.
So because you never use one the problem does not exist with the flexy R8 fore ends? That's why I wrote " facts do no cease to exist because they are ignored"..
Might be hard to swallow at time`s but you take medicine like a man I say.
It was me who mentioned bipod and correctly not you as you mention in your feverish response.
So because you never use one the problem does not exist with the flexy R8 fore ends? That's why I wrote " facts do no cease to exist because they are ignored"..
No worries sunshine.
Go crawl under your mother's skirt, I am watching the football.
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mchughcb
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So if you use the stock how it was not designed you can't really complain too much . The professional stock certainly wasn't as flexible as my Weatherby vanguard. I'd also be curious how much pressure would have to be on the stock to bend it enough on a free floating barrel to affect accuracy give the mounts sit on the barrel. Obviously enough ?
Scarlet ....
He has the rifle ... Not you .... So why does his apparent flexy stock get up your ar5se so badly ?!
He has it ... He uses it ...& it doesn't bother him in the slightest ...
Your so consumed with being " right"
Right is different things to different folks ...,
Lighten up & less of the abuse ffs
If it doesn't hug him @ his rifle why the feck does it bother you ?
Paul
He has the rifle ... Not you .... So why does his apparent flexy stock get up your ar5se so badly ?!
He has it ... He uses it ...& it doesn't bother him in the slightest ...
Your so consumed with being " right"
Right is different things to different folks ...,
Lighten up & less of the abuse ffs
If it doesn't hug him @ his rifle why the feck does it bother you ?
Paul
Dorsettaff
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What is it about any thread that has "Blaser" in it?
If we are not being chased with pitchforks and flaming torches by the Flat Earthers then we are fighting like feckin ferrets in a sack.
Can you all (in Full Metal Jacket Style) please recite the following:-
"This is my Blaser. There are many others like it, but this one is mine. My Blaser is my best friend. It is my life. I must master it as I must master my life. Without me, my Blaser is useless. Without my Blaser, I am useless. I must fire my Blaser true."
and no...I'm not "retiring" my R93 just yet......well at least not until it spontaneously combusts on me!
If we are not being chased with pitchforks and flaming torches by the Flat Earthers then we are fighting like feckin ferrets in a sack.
Can you all (in Full Metal Jacket Style) please recite the following:-
"This is my Blaser. There are many others like it, but this one is mine. My Blaser is my best friend. It is my life. I must master it as I must master my life. Without me, my Blaser is useless. Without my Blaser, I am useless. I must fire my Blaser true."
and no...I'm not "retiring" my R93 just yet......well at least not until it spontaneously combusts on me!
Scarlet
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Paul we`d be best just ignore him now. He`s exposed himself and shot his load so to speak, lmao.
Hello McHugh when I visited the Blaser dealer to make a purchase there were several configurations of the R8 available on show.
All apart from one was factory fitted with a fore end stud for use with a bi pod. So not to get people mixed up this was an addition to the two factory fitted sling swivels which are at the butt end and the fore front of the stock.
I enquired as to why "that one" had no stud? Simple reply he gave me. Some people don't like or use bipods and prefer a traditional type of stalking.
Nothing wrong in that and you can only agree. Only an unreasonable person wouldn't.
So would it be unreasonable or wrong to say the R8 wasn't designed to take a bipod?
The flex occurs with very little torque when using the Harris type bipod. I think this is due to the fact of the large surface area contact being channelled into a small pin type area on top of it.
Then at the other end you have 6/9 inch legs which can only add to a type of leverage. I hope this is making sense?
I don't think the veKtor type bipods which fit directly into the front of the fore end would cause as much flex due to the fact they swivel on an end pin.
Hello McHugh when I visited the Blaser dealer to make a purchase there were several configurations of the R8 available on show.
All apart from one was factory fitted with a fore end stud for use with a bi pod. So not to get people mixed up this was an addition to the two factory fitted sling swivels which are at the butt end and the fore front of the stock.
I enquired as to why "that one" had no stud? Simple reply he gave me. Some people don't like or use bipods and prefer a traditional type of stalking.
Nothing wrong in that and you can only agree. Only an unreasonable person wouldn't.
So would it be unreasonable or wrong to say the R8 wasn't designed to take a bipod?
The flex occurs with very little torque when using the Harris type bipod. I think this is due to the fact of the large surface area contact being channelled into a small pin type area on top of it.
Then at the other end you have 6/9 inch legs which can only add to a type of leverage. I hope this is making sense?
I don't think the veKtor type bipods which fit directly into the front of the fore end would cause as much flex due to the fact they swivel on an end pin.
