Recent content by Thar

There are few people at my age that are fitter on the hill, proven at a recent British Championship Fell race. But I still go for a light rifle, don’t get me wrong most stalkers need to get fitter lose, weight to get more out of the sport, but one is not exclusive to the other. As other have...

Browning A-Bolt Titanium, if you can find one, 5lbs 4oz with a 22 inch barrel so still big deer legal in 243. They cost over 3 times the cost of a normal A-Bolt mind. http://www.browning.com/products/catalog/firearms/detail-historic.asp?fid=001B&cid=035&tid=038 I have one and it is not for...

I’ll have one, before you sell all of them or the price goes up, I will ring you. Really like the 3 lug bolt, all bolts should be made that way in my opinion; integral recoil lug makes sense, alloy action to keep the weight down but with steel insert to lock the bolt up on, perfect! Calibre...

Howa brought the machinery from Sako for making sporting bolt action rifles, they thought they also brought the manufacturing rights to the Sako Finnbear model as well and started to produce Howa copies of the Finnbear before Sako threatened legal action and they stopped, some of these rifles...

+1 +1 Maybe it was what appeared to be your all knowing manor in your posts that rattled my cage. ;) Canadian, no p!ssing contest but for the record my game book records 106 head of deer from 5 Species of deer in the first 3 years I started stalking, although to be fair I most of them were...

I seem to have upset you, and you now have resorted to insults. Is this because you cannot refute my comments that the guys you are arguing with have in all probability shot far more deer than you? Your own experience comes from theoretical research??? While I know nothing about you, I do know...

I am not sure what the shooting Roe on an estate remark refers to, or its relevance? I have hunted from the age of 13 so what???? Canadian it is not about defending yourself, it is about facts, which is the average UK stalker will have shot more deer than a Canadian one, fact. I would guess...

Canadian with due respect I would say the average UK stalker will shoot far more deer than a Canadian, I make this statement biased on I have an stalking friend who emigrated to Canada. There are UK stalkers that will cull 100 or more deer per year, OK a lot might shoot single figure numbers...

In theory the calibre should per perfect as it is 6.8mm indiameter and so lies in size almost exactly between the two long range targetshooters favourites the 6.5 and 7mm. But as others have said for practical reasons it has neverhad the chance to be developed into a target cartridge. ATB Tahr

I had the same problem on my first trip to NZ when hunting wild Boar, I had a 3 shot Tikka and found myself down to one round in the chamber on a couple of occasions, for my second trip I built myself a Howa with a floor plate to take a 10 shot Mag’ from a Remm’y. On my second trip I never...

I use one too, 6-25X50 for long range stuff, I rate the glass above the S&B I did use on the same rifle, the only down side is the weight of the thing, and the price they charge for them now days, if you can find one. :???: ATB Tahr

I have a jet one for reds, it is great esp if you use a harness, just put the harness over one shoulder going down hill. It is much easier that dragging without and keeps the carcase clean. ATB Tahr

I have an A-Bolt Titanium, I find it the idea stalking rifle. The magazine is attached to the floor plate, this gives you a number of advantages, you can top load like a normal floor plate system, but unload with all the cartridges kept in the magazine like a DM, also there is no chance of...

As others have said don’t rush, doing level 2 is nothing like doing level 1, you need experience, if you have shot a lot of deer successfully before you took your level 1 fair enough go for it, if not think again. To gralloch a deer, find and identify the lymph nodes ect successfully takes...

They should really be the mark 3s, the first Howa triggers had only a single position safety, the next ones had a two position safety, and then of cause the latest models have the two position trigger. The first Howas in the country had butler creek synthetic stocks, before the Houge ones we...