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I paid £130 a couple of months ago for cci 200 primers from 1967SPUD. CH

Barnes 150gr TSX, 45.5 gr H4895, 2900 fps and very precise. Easily sub-MOA from my 20" Sako 85. CH

Time to reach for the hammer.... CH

I've used a March F 3-24x42 ffp scope with the FML 1 ret for years on a Sako 85 for hunting and longer range. Compact, light and functional with a 30mm tube and 28 mil vertical adjustment range. They come up secondhand for the kind of money the op is talking about. Get the illuminated version...

Thankyou. Similar to the values I got using Sako 140gr Gamehead factory rounds through my 6.5 CM TRG which also has a 26" barrel at 2657 fps. My chosen handload using 143 gr ELDX rounds over 41.8gr N555 (so reasonably mild) were showing a slightly higher 5 shot average of 2717 fps. The highest...

Hi, great looking rig. Is that a 26" barrel? Have you measured the muzzle velocity at all? CH

Anybody else having issues with super market Maris piper? Yes.Bought some from Lidl a couple of weeks ago. Seemed to boil in about half the usual time and soaked up the water like a sponge. CH

I'm using a Sphur QDP 4002 for a 34mm tube. It's lighter than it looks and returns to zero. It mounts to a steel Near Mfg inclined rail on a TRG and I'm happy with it. CH

The Atlantic Group, Classic Flight I believe, at Coventry Airport did something similar with a DC6 in the late 2000's. They didn't attach the aircraft to a restaurant, they did the catering nearby and delivered the meal to your table in the fuselage. It was a fairly original idea in the UK at...

Near Manufacturing produce an interference fit pic rail for the 85 which looks pretty neat. CH

Thankyou. I like wood and blued rifles as well and if I went down the route of changing from Sako I'd be looking very closely at an S&L. CH

Sorry to ask on someone else's thread but what's so special about cut rifling? What is the advantage over say, cold hammer forging and machine lapping? CH

Systems? What systems? There is no system, certainly not a national system. CH

I'm in Bucharest. There are many bears in the Carpathians two hours north of here, I believe there was a hunting ban that lasted a few years and the population exploded. In Sinaia, in summertime late afternoons, a car drives up into the overlooking hills sounding a siren to warn everyone and...