Blaser Rifles
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over hyped, over priced and over here
paulbshooting
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I have an R8 ultimate and another in a grs bifrost stock. Superb kit, easy to clean and I use the jakele pull through after each outing plus wipe the external parts if it rained. No rust so far. Yes prices have gotten silly and availability of rifles and accessories can be tricky.
I've been close to getting a r8 many times but every time I look closely I just don't get why they don't give the option of a stainless barrel. I go out most days in the winter and I must admit I just put the gun straight back in the cabinet after every use(it's a tool) and I couldn't do that with a blaser.
With the 80th anniversary of D-Day coming up...............over hyped, over priced and over here
I looked at getting one and tried my friend's R8, lovely rifle but ended up preferring and getting a Merkel Helix Alpinist with a .30-06 barrel. Prefer the closed geared action and its cycling and it is lighter and feels a bit more handy, to me at least....oh and not well promoted so you can get one for half the price if you shop around and haggle....!
Cumbrian 1
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Why would you get an R8 over a K95? An R8 is a statement that you desperately want to be noticed and accepted by the cool kids whereas a K95 oozes class and sophistication and you simply don’t care what other losers think….
Just MHO
Just MHO
almost snap. 22LR, 243(sold) 308 and a 375.
out of interest did the similar calibres need different reasons?
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sikamalc
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I have had two instances with paying clients, where a Blaser R8 discharged without notification.
Last time was about 5 years ago. The rifle was locked into an expensive pair of sticks. A fallow pricket had just been taken, and the rifle remained in the sticks, a clamp type system (there about £400 to buy).
The client was not touching the rifle, and I was about to move forward to pick up the fallen deer at about 80 yards away. Fortunatley I stopped myself. The client tounched the end of the stock to pick the rifle up, and it discharged.
Needless to say after this incident and the one before with an R8, I am not a lover of Blaser rifles.
Last time was about 5 years ago. The rifle was locked into an expensive pair of sticks. A fallow pricket had just been taken, and the rifle remained in the sticks, a clamp type system (there about £400 to buy).
The client was not touching the rifle, and I was about to move forward to pick up the fallen deer at about 80 yards away. Fortunatley I stopped myself. The client tounched the end of the stock to pick the rifle up, and it discharged.
Needless to say after this incident and the one before with an R8, I am not a lover of Blaser rifles.
boar & deer
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Love my blaser I bought it when open season stopped importing them so one on the first r8's still running the same .243 barrel that's had 1000s of rounds down her would recommend a blaser to anyone how wants a accurate working rifle never that's easy to swap scopes and calibres
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A friend in Argyll , professional stalker at the time ,had similar
Client, fairly experienced person ,hands off the rifle ,it was slung muzzle down,no prior warning the rifle discharged and nearly removed a foot.
TundB
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You can’t fire a Blaser R8 when safety on/decocked.
He/she probably grabbed the safety off, live ammunition on chamber, ready-to-fire rifle off the trigger with all excitement of the previous shot.
south-nofolk-stalker
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That doesn’t surprise me in the slightest
Also had the Blaser click been mentioned?
Over hyped, massively over priced and does nothing that a tikka, sako, Parker hale or a rust bucket ruger does.
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