Recent content by PhilRS03

The weight masks poor marksmanship principles, simple as that. Anyone that tells you a light gun isn’t accurate can’t shoot for sh**.

Your biggest issue (which hasn’t been touched on) is Mirage. You can’t shoot what you can’t see. A thinner profile barrel will heat quicker but also cool quicker. As mentioned above, if you’re on a bench a cheap battery powered fan to your flank will help a great deal. Not in terms of cooling so...

The 6.5-284 allows for a lot more flexibility when it comes to bullet choice especially if you keep it in a long action rifle. The recoil impulse is different too, a thing that a lot of people overlook is the ability to call your own corrections based on fall of shot if you need to take a follow...

Without doubdt the best rifle I’ve ever owned, and have generally used when it comes to long range shenanigans (outside of the 300 PRC and something else). I couldn’t recommend one highly enough, low recoil, and will pretty much kill anything on the planet from an extremely long way away...

No worries mate. I mean I use the term build loosely, you literally just need a good vice, an action wrench and some barrel clamps. All mega cheap. Defiance even sell an action wrench. You definitely don’t need a smith to do it, it’s literally just a case of screwing a barrel on and fitting a...

You’ll be seeing around 2350 fps using something like a 185gr bullet. Shooting something like 168gr Gold medal match maybe 2370 from a 16” .308. The only limiting factor for .308 length really is the law. For anything out to 400m you’d be absolutely fine with a 12.5”!

If you’re looking for a great off the shelf rifle, you won’t go far wrong with a Bergara (as long as it’s a short action non magnum!). If you’re going custom, a potential option would be buy something like a Defiance Ruckus action and a Pre-Fit Proof research barrel. They do steel or Carbon...

I’m with you there, 100%. I do the same thing although unfortunately with a 6.5-284! I just use a kestrel and do a zero offset between loads. Saying that, in .264 the prices for anything worth shooting seem to be pretty minimal (in my opinion anyway) * edit- prices between decent bullets is...

If you shoot 100 deer a year, there’s a difference of about 30 quid a year……… or 6 pints in my local. I think of stuff in terms of value for money rather than overall cost

Very true, but there is a minefield to contend with in terms of shipping/compliance/import now we are rid of the fourth Reich. I mean I’m not sure of the ins and outs of that, and I know there are one or two (on my side of the industry) that massively try and profiteer, but generally speaking...

Everything that’s wrong with the British shooting population in one sentence……. How on earth is that the most important question. Mind blowing.

No offence intended but it’s totally ludicrous to do such a simple comparison. You don’t have any idea the amount of background activities there are to consider when it comes to doing business in this area. If you work off of 30% total margin for a UK retailer/distributor (less in the defence...

I’m all for it, honestly, but practically it would never work. Not in a month of Sundays. Like I say it’s not a simple process and there’s a reason why they’re arnet even that many distributors around in the UK. You also have the relationship management piece, think “would a Porsche dealership...

There are a LOT of reasons why that’s the case. A lot of OEM’s, especially American ones, typically arnet very well geared for exports. Especially into countries like the UK where there are a few complex processes to get right. With the greatest of respect to people in the Gun trade, I would say...

Morning Mike, It’s bullet dependant. The first point of engagement into the rifling is the ogive so that’s absolutely the correct way to measure. There’s no other way of measuring jump otherwise! If it’s the same make of bullet you’re using maybe start by sticking just that into a comparator...