Recent content by icedog

For me, there is nothing like the feel and clickety clack sound of running cartridges through a slick pump action to let me know I'm into some exciting shooting. I have some 20, 16, and 12 gauge, older Remington Wingmaster and Ithaca M37 shotguns. Earliest Wingmaster, a 1951 production was my...

Seller started out significantly higher a few weeks ago. If the rifle was offered at $650ca and the price included the 19mm rings, I'd be in, but at $750 plus shipping, and the rings being expressly excluded, I remain hesitant. However ... it would pair nicely with the .243, and be a sweet...

So ... not really encouraging me to make a purchase so far! Could be I will be thanking folks for helping me hold onto my money.

I am a bit of a BSA fan, and have a Viscount in 243 as well as a couple others. Now I have run across another Viscount in 7x57 for sale .... looks to be lightly used and in very good shape, but I would not have an opportunity to actuall y handle it before purchasing. Any comments on the...

Your strength is to be admired dodgyknees, especially by those of us who just don't have it. The best I can do is admit to my weakness, and learn to live with it ... as uncomfortable as that may be. I have lent and given a number of firearms to other family members, and am usually hesitant to...

Had a BLR in .308 some years ago, from one of the last years of steel receivers. Unfortunately, I purchased it new, so it had that shiny, plasticized looking Browning finish on the wood. As I am more than just a bit anal about the appearance of my firearms, I tried to keep it looking new. The...

I have a bit of collection ... used to change up my carry fairly often, but have been stuck on a 284 Buck Bantam for a few years now. I was travelling by air with only carry on luggage, but would be driving back home at the end of my travels ... couldn't take a knife in my luggage, and couldn't...

The first c.f. rifle I actually owned, and still have is a Voere 7mm Rem mag ( built on a military 98 mauser action) which was given to me as payment for work done for an acquaintance who was setting up a gunshop. That would have been around 1969 or 70 when I was a young lad in my very early...

Good advice gentlemen. I'll stick the old 4x Bushnell on it for the time being, and keep watch for a suitable and reasonably priced used Leupold ... hopefully something 2-7x less than 40. I did check on a vintage 6x Lyman earlier, but it was sold before I got to it ... really had the cool...

Thanks for the reply caberslash ... So I went back and did my best measuring with my rudimentary calliper and my old eyes ... many, if not all of the Leupolds seem to have an advertised ocular diameter of 1.56mm, and it looks like it just may fit. Curious if you have such a set-up yourself, or...

So, I have this recently purchased, sweet little lightweight BSA Viscount in .243, and was able to find a set of the Parker Hale rings needed to fit on the milled dovetail to mount a scope. I do have an older, Japan manufactured fixed 4x Bushnell which fits on the rifle, but would eventually...

Another option IF you are willing to go to a different cartridge and IF you can find someone to do the work, is to have the your barrel re-bored and re-chambered to handle a somewhat larger cartridge. Sometimes this can even be more economical than a re-barrel. In your case, a .250 Savage...

Re the chain saw .... there was a time when we used vegetable oil, but discovered that the material we were cutting provided all the lubrication required ... plenty of fat and other assorted juicy stuff keeps the bar and chain well lubed. May go electric at some point, but so far have just...

At dressed weights generally somewhere between 400 and 700 or 800 pounds, moose here usually need to be quartered where they fall, which is often a considerable distance from a road or a truck.. Our normal practice has been to use knives, manual meat saws, and gas powered chainsaws to get the...

I'm currently using some older 130g Barnes TSX bullets in my 6.5 Swede (not sure these are even still available?), over 46g of IMR 4350, and I sight in for a 200 yd. zero ... don't have the velocity +/or trajectory numbers in front of me at the moment, but they must have looked good to me on...