you might want to remind them about a cheek weld.
I guess you could set your chin on the stock to see through that scope.
I built a rifle to be shot that way just to screw with my buddy.

Needs a bigger scope.

That's just wrong on so many levels. I know they hunt at night but why not just use a thermal imaging system from a Leopard tank; they are smaller.

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Originally posted by dpcd:
That's just wrong on so many levels. I know they hunt at night but why not just use a thermal imaging system from a Leopard tank; they are smaller.

Sense of proportions is conspicuously absent.
That scope was borrowed from a nearby observatory?

I never did understand the concept of ring on the objective bell - why??? Looks bad, can only damage the lenses if tightened too much, etc etc.

I could get by with it, but Id sell it as fast as I could..cheek weld means nothing to me within reason..I shoot low comb mod. 70s with a low mounted scope and prefer that as I will have the option of using the irons, something you cannot do with a high comb and positive cheek weld..Just my opine as I was raised I the days of low comb mod. 70s and the new Weaver scopes. thank the good Lord for that.

Is the rifle a FinWolf?

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Originally posted by LHeym500:
Is the rifle a FinWolf?

My guess is no, looks like an older model Browning BLR

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Originally posted by AnotherAZWriter:
I never did understand the concept of ring on the objective bell - why??? Looks bad, can only damage the lenses if tightened too much, etc etc.

Carry over from the claw mount which pivoted at the front mount - ocular lifted upwards and mount on objective unhooked from base.

Mount pictured appears to be a side pivot, so yeah, ring on objective not really necessary. What I'd like to know is how much money was spent on that mounting system vs the (?) Japanese made scope. If getting hand fitted mounts why not a Zeiss/ S&B etc 8x56 rather than an Asian manufacture Frankonia special?

Ach du lieber! Mein Gott! Nein, nein, nein!!!

Its an old steel receiver BLR, and I had one like it in .308. The magazine rattled so I had to put electricians tape on it, the extractor was broken and the empty cases dribbled out. It couldn't handle factory loads without locking up and needed handloading to work at all. But it would put three shots into an inch at 100 yards, and I shot my biggest stag with it one frigid wet day, looking through a totally whited out Weaver scope. I shot that stag at ten yards as it walked right up to me, imagining where the cross hairs must be. Took me an hour to find it in the rain, following traces of dissolving blood. I fell over it, stone cold dead with a bullet through its heart, a hundred yards away hidden in the ferns. It took me four years to shoot that stag. I have the skull and heavy 12 point antlers on the wall over my head as I write this.

Snowwolfe and Caelsen: Thank you.

I could shoot that gun without a problem, all one has to do is put the cross hair on the deer, simple as that..to hell with cheek weld and stuff! enjoy your rifle,an early Browning BLR. Gooood guns.