Hornet 6
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Not my point at all, my point is this was supposed to be a stalking rifle, a 400 yard shot is not stalking its long range sniping at live animals.
Neil.
The "Perfect" Lightweight Stalking Rifle
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Not my point at all, my point is this was supposed to be a stalking rifle, a 400 yard shot is not stalking its long range sniping at live animals.
Neil.
glasshalffull
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Until that lovely wood swells after several days on the hill not to mention scratched and dented? Been there done that and plastic all day for me on the hill.
glasshalffull
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Cut my teeth on a Parker Hale 270 great rifle never needed a tin can on the hill myself but then I'm only ever a paying guest. Bonny picture. The stock looking like it could do with a good oiling. Must have been the wet?
enfieldspares
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One advantage of wood is it can be make bespoken to the user stock cheaper than making a "custom" mould for a carbon stock unique to the buyer.
So a batch of, say, shotguns can be machine made with overlong stocks that are then shortened to fit the individual customer.
The other advantage is you can bend a wood stock on a shotgun through the hand to set it for the individual.
But yes for weapons where an ability to do either of the above isn't important plastic is fantastic.
So a batch of, say, shotguns can be machine made with overlong stocks that are then shortened to fit the individual customer.
The other advantage is you can bend a wood stock on a shotgun through the hand to set it for the individual.
But yes for weapons where an ability to do either of the above isn't important plastic is fantastic.
tusker
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it was totally soaked as were all of us. This stag was the result of one of my best and most memorable stalks ever. The gillie wanted to pass on the beast as he said no one had ever taken an animal in that area so the challenge was on. 2 hours later and a very wet me job done. I am not joking I did wade waist deep in the river. Bloody hell I,m getting all emotional now re living it...…….time for a dram!
Tusker
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This thread is only adding to an already stuborn itch that is procuring a deer-legal stutzen for woodland stalking.
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glasshalffull
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You'll be learning German next
The op wants a rifle he can stalk with and thats accurate enough to 400 yards. Its up to the person who is going to shoot to decide if he can achieve a humane kill. My point is a clean kill a 10 yards or 400 is a clean kill. I was asked by a landowner to shoot deer a couple of years ago. I said to whats happened to the fella who used to do it. He replied , i seen him crawling about in the mud, trying to get close as he could to a doe, well it ran away and the fella says awk its there for another day. The landowner said i dont want them there for another day, i just want them dead. I control deer for a living, i am not employed to play at stalking. If that is what you want to do thats good. What defines a stalking rifle i used to control deer with a sendero, not many people would call it a stalking rifle
The OP's rifle is pretty much that, only better!
For stalking over the hills, in high grass, and through the woods, I like my 20-inch Model 70 Winchester Compact in 7mm-08 with a 1.75-5x scope on it. The only improvement would be a good set of iron sights and change the rings to QR, but my Mannlicher stutzen is already set up that way.
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. The perfect hill rifle.
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deeangeo
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Yup, a good practical workman’s tool.
Weigh just about the same as a K95, also, accurate & easy to handle.
But dreary, characterless & fails to impart any sense of ‘pride of ownership’.
Personally, I’d have wood rather than plastic all day long on a rifle that’s purely for what for me, is a leisure activity, rather than a job requiring a ‘work tool’.
However, that’s just me.
I have good friends who have them in 6.5x55 and their views are quite different to mine, as I suspect, yours are too.
But hey, if we were all the same, it really would be a boring world.
TUT TUT TUT Kev, Throw & wait!,
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