Boddington article on Legendary African rifles

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07 February 2012, 06:50

7kongoni

Boddington article on Legendary African rifles

Craig has written an article for the March Guns&Ammo mag covering Papa's WR .577, Fletcher Jamieson's .500 Jeffery and a couple of Selous's rifles. It's not a re-hash of known material. They take a couple of buff in Moz (one with a .256 and yes it was legal). Good stuff. Thank you, Col.

07 February 2012, 07:58

safari-lawyer

Those fine rifles live just down the road from me. Reckon why they never come for a visit?

Will J. Parks, III

07 February 2012, 08:30

Cross L

Mostly English guns--Have you tried inviting them to tea??

SSR

07 February 2012, 21:39

MacD37

I very seldom buy a gun rag off the stand, but I'll buy that one!
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"If I die today, I've had a life well spent, for I've been to see the Elephant, and smelled the smoke of Africa!"~ME 1982

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07 February 2012, 22:08

adamhunter

The owner brought a few of those pieces to the AHG Show in Atlanta and had them displayed at Craig's booth. I saw, but did not handle them. If they could only talk!

30+ years experience tells me that perfection hit at .264. Others are adequate but anything before or after is wishful thinking.

07 February 2012, 23:16

butchloc

quote:
Posted 07 February 2012 06:58 Hide Post
Those fine rifles live just down the road from me. Reckon why they never come for a visit?

my guess is that they are afraid they will never leave

08 February 2012, 01:38

JDA-CO

Yeah - I read it too - great article for sure!

The AV8R's

08 February 2012, 02:21

Code4

The .256 is better known as the 6.5×54mm Mannlicher-Schönauer. It has killed everything on the planet.

http://www.rathcoombe.net/sci-...ssic_mannlicher.html

09 February 2012, 00:52

Duckear

That was a pretty good article.

Owner is a guy out of Birmingham.

I think he is on CB's DVD on african rifles too.

Hunting: Exercising dominion over creation at 2800 fps.