I just got my new Blaser R8 in .416 in today. WHEEEEEEEEEEE

Love the .416Rem caliber!

Way to go! You're ready for anything Africa has to offer. The ability to take them down and fit them in a suitcase-sized case makes travel so much easier....or fit them in a case with your double.

PS: After a bit of experimentation, if you can't get your groups in the 1/2" to 3/4" MOA area, it's not the rifle :-)

You dang guys keep telling me how accurate they are, I'll find out. I can get .57" with 5 shots out of my Remington at 100 yards, hopefully this will at least that.

J. H. C. You could have had a Winchester?


I swear, I don't know what I am going to do with you!

Blasers are the most reliable and accurate out of the box rifles on the planet, bar none.

Get ready to be happy!

I'm gonna find out this weekend. I hope it shoots as well as I've heard. It sure is heavy. It has the Steel receiver and the kickstop installed cause I'm a sissy (there, I beat ya'll to it)
It sure does fit me well.
Michael,
I have owned 2 Winchesters. Nastiest barrels known to mankind. Shoot 30 rounds and clean it for 4 damn days!!! Maybe with custom barrels, they are acceptable. I know that you are haveing a hard time right now with all that has been on you but I AM NOT THE CAUSE!! BE NICE
HEH HEH HEH HEH HEH

An incredible cartridge. My .416 Rem. is one of my favorite rifles and clearly my go to. It may not be pretty, but it's not picky about ammo and is extremely accurate -- when I do my job. I've taken game out to 300 yards with it off of sticks.

Great cartridge; low recoil. I'm sure you're going to love it.

lavaca,
Oh, this gun is pretty. I also have taken game out to a longer distnce than realized. It makes one hell of an elk rifle. Doesn't tear up near as much meat on an elk as a .30-06 and kills very well. I like it. Now to find barrels.

Have fun shooting it. I think it's the most versatile cartridge around. It will truly do it all. I've shot buffalo, hartebeest, zebra, wildebeest, and even Grant's gazelle,impala, and warthog with mine. None had any complaints.

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Originally posted by michael458:
J. H. C. You could have had a Winchester?


I swear, I don't know what I am going to do with you!

Agree! My .416 Remingtons are all Winchesters!!!
Blaser:

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Originally posted by Michael Robinson:
Blasers are the most reliable and accurate out of the box rifles on the planet, bar none.

As well as the ugliest rifles on the planet, bar none!

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Michael,
I have owned 2 Winchesters. Nastiest barrels known to mankind. Shoot 30 rounds and clean it for 4 damn days!!! Maybe with custom barrels, they are acceptable. I know that you are haveing a hard time right now with all that has been on you but I AM NOT THE CAUSE!! BE NICE
HEH HEH HEH HEH HEH

Wingnut

No man, someone must have switched barrels on you! HEH......... I actually still have 3-4, 5 maybe, M70s few from the custom shop, drop dead accurate, no joke, 1 hole with 3 at 100.... So don't know what happened with yours... Hey, I know, for cleaning get some steel bullets, that seemed to work pretty good! LOL.......

Anyway, regardless thereof, it is what it is, and congrats, how about some photos of that "ugly" thing! HEH......

Enjoy, just fussing with ya!

Michael

Yeah, I'm just messing with my buddy Rick as well. But then I always give my buds a hard time when they go home with ugly or fat chicks.

Speaking of the Blaser's performance, there is a reason guys go out with ugly chicks. Somehow they have to make up for the paper bag factor!

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Now to find barrels.

You know where to find one! :-)

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J. H. C. You could have had a Winchester?

Michael, some folks appreciate caviar, while others are ok with fishsticks :-)

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Originally posted by Michael Robinson:
Blasers are the most reliable and accurate out of the box rifles on the planet, bar none.

Get ready to be happy!

I think I'm up to four hunting shows on TV where a Blaser hsa an issue with hurried shots. That and the fact they're fuglier than a bag of assholes. Accuracy, I don't doubt it, but I'll take one of my Model 70s' accuracy and be happy.

That's one of the things I like about AR, there is definitely no FN shortage of opinions!!! Even if they're wrong!

Here you are gents!

Nice!

Its a Daisy!!

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Originally posted by Biebs:

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J. H. C. You could have had a Winchester?

Michael, some folks appreciate caviar, while others are ok with fishsticks :-)

Biebs..........

I don't even like fish..........

LOL.......

Back in the day of the Winchester Custom Shop in Connecticut...it did not get any better than a M-70 from there.

I have an ole M-70 .458 WM Safari Grade from the Custom Shop...most accurate rifle I own. You have to tape the holes after each shot to know you hit the paper and I am no BR shooter.

An ole custom gun maker looked at it once and said...there is not a better set of gunsmiths in the world than in that old shop...they CAN do it right.

All of my plain old M-70's "will shoot" too.

I would NOT trade my old 4-5-8 M-70 for a carload of Blasers. I have a poduction grade .375 H&H M-70, that is a less-than-an-inch-rifle off the bench, that has been on every trip I have made.

I grew up with Remingtons. Never owned a Winchester until '06. Had a .375 and a .416 and they both shot just fine, it just took too much work to clean them after shooting. To me it's 6 of one and half a dozen of another. Lots of winchester lovers and lots of remington lovers as well. I have never had a problem with the Remington and have just stuck with em. This is the first venture off the path. I'll see how I like it and how it shoots and go from there.

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, it just took too much work to clean them after shooting.

Well...that is not a problem for me. I just don't clean them that often...less I get them rained on.

And when I do...I just soak the barrel in Wipe-out/Patch-out and it is clean the next day.

Lane, but to take down the Winny for travel, you'd need a hacksaw :-)

Why do I need to take it down to travel? Just throw it in the Starlight and go.

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it just took too much work to clean them after shooting

Wingnut

Why would you clean them?

I don't think I have ever cleaned my 416 Remingtons......... You mean the barrel? Inside the barrel? Like with a brush and all that stuff? Hell, I am getting Sam to make some more of those "steel" bullets to do that with.....

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Lane, but to take down the Winny for travel, you'd need a hacksaw :-)

Thats what I keep telling Sam about that new Heym, in a matter of minutes I can have that barrel down to 18 inches or so! LOL... Of course Biebs, a B&M you don't have to worry about takedown, its already short......

LOL.......

By the way Wingnut, not bad wood on that thing of yours!

Now you need some of those wicked ass 225 NonCons to run at 3000 or better.....

M

CrossL
I think you meant to say "doozy"
Michael458
You can kiss my HEH HEH HEH
Yes, I use brushes and cleaner and everything. No thanks to the steel bullets. Why don't you run a test on accuracy on one of your rifles, let's see how that works for you and then I might try it.

Pago,

When I said mine was ugly, what I meant was that it is a synthetic stock - and it's been used hard. That is a pretty piece of wood on yours.

Thanks guys, Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. If it shoots half as well as I have been led to believe, I will be happy. I like the switch barrel aspect of it. To be able to take one rifle and 2 or 3 calibers to do what those same amount of rifles i would have had to take is a plus.

Since Rick is a bud and momma always said if you don't have anything nice to say, keep your mouth shut, I'm going to do just that!

I'm going to keep my mouth shut.

I AM going to keep my mouth shut!

I AM GOING TO

Damnit!! So much for good intentions!

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Thanks guys, Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. If it shoots half as well as I have been led to believe, I will be happy.

Rick, If you are happy, then I am happy too! HEH.... But, regardless, both Todd and I are going to monkey with you about it! You can't escape either of us now! LOL............

Little story about my one and only experience with the blaser. It was also a 416 Remington.. A good PH friend of mine in Zimbabwe carried one for years as his backup rifle. He loved it. Always stating how fast it was to work, and that was, or is true, once trained a bit with it. ANd he was of course trained and used to the rifle. One day we are out, mid day, decide to shoot a bit, so set up a target, and he fired 3 very quick rounds with it, close range inside 10 yds. I was much slower, as I had not learned to manipulate that bolt system, so it was a bit foreign to me. But I did manage to get 3 rds out, and while slower, much closer together.

My PH friend had run across a client a couple of years before that his main claim to fame was to shoot 100 elephants. Well, he was shooting them alright, but the question to me was how many he was actually going to kill on his own, very few of them I can tell you. My PH friend was having a blast as he was actually doing most of the shooting and killing, after the chap would shoot with his Blaser 470 double using factory ammo, RN FMJ, and knew nothing about his rifle, was not a good gun handler by any stretch... I saw videos... He was probably killing outright about 20% of his take.

After a few years of this my PH Friend decided to move to a 500 NE for this work, while 416 had served him well, he just wanted something with a bit more thump behind it for elephant, and continued use long term. Now, nothing wrong with 416 at all, I like 416, but we all have to admit, .500/.510 hits harder, especially with the right bullets, which of course he has now!

Just a story, nothing more, no points to be made, or arguments about caliber, cartridge or anything else. Just relating my only experience with a baser 416 Remington, 3 rounds! Of course the one I shot did not look as good as Ricks...... It was rather beat all to hell...

Michael

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But, regardless, both Todd and I are going to monkey with you about it! You can't escape either of us now! LOL............

People also laughed at those who claimed that the world wasn't flat :-)

My shoulders are wide enough to take the BS ribbing. I have never been one to do what everybody else did. You guys just are jealous I think.....
Lavaca, I love the wood stocks but have been one that had to replace factory stocks with custom synthetic's for the proper LOP and this one actually fits me. About time I could take a proper wood stocked rifle to hunt with.

Michael458,
Keep it up you little shit!
Todd's reloading equipment just took a huge price hike

Congratulations,that is a sweet rifle,excellent caliber

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Michael458,
Keep it up you little shit!

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Originally posted by Biebs:

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But, regardless, both Todd and I are going to monkey with you about it! You can't escape either of us now! LOL............

People also laughed at those who claimed that the world wasn't flat :-)

OH ok, now you tell me the world is not flat!
And expect me to fall for that!


HEH....
Ya'll have a good day.......
Enjoy
Michael

Michael,
I still maintain that while you got your ducks in a row, you've lost your marbles!