I have 3 tracker barrels .308, .375, and 9,x62mm, they all shoot and are very handy

Aleko

I have no problem hunting dangerous game with a Blaser. My PH had no problem with it. This is my Safari 416.

Although I have six complete Blasers and another 15 or so barrels don't buy one. What will you do with all your spare time? I mean you won't need a trigger job. And you won't need to get it glass bedded. And you won't have to decide what mounting system to use for your scope. You won't need to fiddle with the feed rails to make it reliable.

The problem is Blasers are boring. You just buy one and it is ready to hunt. Are you sure you really want a rifle that you don't have to send to five different gunsmiths before it is field ready?

The thing that scares me about them is the lack of backup safety features in the event of that 360 degree lug failing. Anybody have any info about what happens with a brl obstruction or faulty ammo or any of the dozens of things that can go wrong.
I've seen a m98 blow the brl clean off and zero damage to the shooter.

JohnAir, the 360-degree lug consists of 8 separate pieces of steel for locking. If one broke there are still 7 left to lock the lug. If 4 broke, there are still 4 left. Granted if the 4 are on the same side, the bolt may slip back, but what's the possibility of it happening?

Hi Art,
I really don't know what the possibilities of it happeneing are but that is what I would like to know. The pictures on the internet of victims of blaser blowups with half their face gone are really scary. I read that Blaser atributed the accidents to the ammo.
It seems to me that the lockup would act as 1 big lug and that if any of it was stressed to failure the whole thing would go. Since it bears force equaly I don't think you could get one of the individual parts to give.
I wish I could get myself convinced on this because the trigger, takedown mechanism return to zero, saddle mount return to zero, accuracy, and speed of 2nd shot are real selling points.

After seeing how much the guns are tested I would doub't anything like that would ever happen. The Blaser are very strong and in mt opinion they may perhaps be stronger than a conventional bolt action

Aleko

Is it not interesting that of all those who use the R93 and have posted on this link none have ever run into a problem with the gun malfuntioning. I used my Blaser R93 for 21 days in the dusty Selous and there are others who have used them much more in similar conditions and yet they have never had a malfunction problem, nor have any of our rifles have ever blown up. We lucky few?

By the way, using a single example to denigrate the whole specie isn't really the way to go. My game scout's rifle, a FN Mauser in .404, wouldn't function properly, therefore, in spite of all the evidence to the contrary, I should conclude that FN Mauser's are unreliable? That would be a bit silly. Also in our camp was another Blaser R93 in .416 Remington Mag. that had been used in Africa, primarily Tanzania, since 94, again with no complaints.
Again, I guess the P.H. who owned the gun has just been lucky all these years.

To prefer not to use a Blaser in Africa is certainly all right. To suggest that the R93 is insufficient for use in Africa in spite of all the evidence to the contrary is just silly.

Tom

My first Blaser was a 300 win mag that I have had for a couple of years. I like the rifle so much, that I have sold my other rifles and invested in six different guns and barrells. I can't wait to take my 375 and 416 Blaser to Africa hunting.

I guess I'm just lucky 'cause the 300 rounds or so of .416RM rounds (on top of another 200 rounds of .300WM), my MA(gnum) bolt is still locking.

I'm luckier than you, Art, because after 2665 rounds through my 3 R 93's combined, the rifles and I are still performing admirably (...well, the rifles at least

I'm a big fan, so much so that I started BlaserPro.com, that make me a bit biased. They are the finest factory production rifles made, bar none. My friend and master riflemaker Jim Kobe is still pissed at me for getting into Blaser's. I had spent close to $30k with him through the years on custom and match rifles. They are all gone now, now I exclusively shoot R93', K-95's and US Military stuff (M1A's and AR15's).

I have killed over 3000 prairie dogs with my 223Rem & 6.5x55 R93 Jagdmatch's and a bunch of big game with my others in the US and Africa. I would bet my life on them in a minute, in any weather, any where in the world.

Andre, my hats to you, you're luckier. I have only a almost/shy off 2000 rounds on my ST(andard) bolthead (firing .308Win and 243Win rounds). Next, I want to get a .223Rem barrel with the MI(ni) bolthead and use it for "bulk" shooting, though.

Art, if weight is not a problem, give a thought to the heavy bbl (+ wide forend). I've one in .222 Rem and it shoots > .2 MOA.

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Originally posted by ALF:
It gives doubles a bad name for being slow on the follow up shot

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You better hide behind that sofa! this forum is real close to the double rifle forum in the forums list!

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Originally posted by exabit:
I might go for plains game hunting in Africa sooner or later, but doubt that I'll ever afford to take any buffalo, so the Blaser won't be used for true dangerous game anyhow.

If your other two rifles are push feed as well,as the Weatherby, then there will be little change in suitability for Dangerous game anyway, so why not the blaser!

I will say they are not for me, but that doesn't change anything for those who can justify hunting with a push feed rifle that is butt ugly!


Hows that for a decenting view!

Andre, is that .222Rem fluted? It looks much like my fluted .308Win barrel for my tactical R93 Sporter (yeah, it shoots real great for practice on the safari fore-end too! About the same weight as the .416Rem safari barrel).

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Originally posted by MacD37:
If your other two rifles are push feed as well,as the Weatherby, then there will be little change in suitability for Dangerous game anyway, so why not the blaser!

The discussion regarding suitable actions for DG can go on and on and on... As I stated, I'm not intending to use my rifles for any DG so I really don't care. The closest I'll get is probably wild boar and maybe bear here in Sweden.

Speaking of "controlled feed", I used to have two Winchester 70 Classics, one stainless 375 H&H (very cool) and a Featherweight 6,5x55. Both have the renowned claw extractor and so on.

Now, the 6,5x55 had an interesting flaw: about every 10th cartridge or so got totally jammed into the chamber. It seemed that the bolt actually managed to push the cartridge out of the magazine and IN FRONT of the claw! When the cartridge hit the bottom of the chamber, the claw was forced to bend a little to the right, and jam between the chamber wall and the cartridge. The result was that the whole action was stuck and it was impossible to push the bolt forward to fire, and it took a great deal of pulling force to pull the bolt back out. When I did that, the claw was pulled maybe an inch forward of its intended position, making the bolt totally useless until manual intervention took place. I had to work on the claw for some time before it was put back in the right place on the bolt. Then, after another 10 shots or so, the same thing happened again.

Imagine the potential result if that little Winchester feature happened on the "DG" 375 H&H under some heat at close quarters! But you don't see me starting a thread on the forum and say that the Winchester Classics are useless because of these incidents, do you?

What did I do? I got rid of both my "uncontrolled jam" Winchester 70's, and I will never own a Winchester again!

Correct Art, it's called the U.I.T. bbl., much probably the same as your .308.

BLASER THE NON-PLUS ULTRA OF MY VAULT!

I have the following Blasers I got shorted one barrel yesterday in the heat of a Browning BCPR High Wall trade. But none the less here it goes:

R93 Synthetic (I opened this one up to fit the Match barrels last night)
R93 Synthetic tracking
R93 Professional
R93 American Standard
K95 Prestige

I also have a wood set for a varminter, and a european butt stock.

I have the following barrels:
222 match R93 and K95
6mm BR match
243 Win R93 and K95
25-06 R93
264 Win R93
30-06 R93 and K95
338 Win R93
9.3x62 R93
375 H&H R93 sporter

Oops I guess my count was off. I had but sold another 375 sporter barrel, a 300 LRS2 barrel, and a 45 Blaser barrel.

I'd like to get a semi-weight 8x57 barrel and another 45 Blaser barrel. I'd also like a match barrels in 6.5-284 and 308.

I have 2 sticks of fine walnut blanks in dad's garage awaiting assigment to another Blaser and am going to talk to Alexandra in Germany about some sideplates.