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If I buy a commercial FN mauser action will the bolt handle configuration allow me to mount a low scope? If not any suggestions on bolt handles. Working on my ISIS strategy....FORE | ||
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yes NRA Life Member, Band of Bubbas Charter Member, PGCA, DRSS. Shoot & hunt with vintage classics. | |||
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Yes very low. No welding with a commercial FN. FNMauser Strike while the iron is hot! Look before you leap!He who hesitates is lost! Slow and steady wins the race! Time waits for no man! A stitch in time saves nine! Make hay while the sun shines! ect. ect. | |||
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The real question is whether you can live with that gawdawful handle design?  Aut vincere aut mori | |||
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The FN bolt hadle is easy to reform into a really fine hunting bolt handle.I like it almost as well as the original Orberndorf bolt handle design. square shooter | |||
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Gotta agree with 500grains. If not that something more like the Talley whch is similar. As to reforming the handle, you'd still be left with that ugly annoying flat on the back. Aut vincere aut mori | |||
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I like the FN bolt handle, its a classic and been aroung many years, It is designed to have some sweep back but won't rap your knuckles with a big kicker.. I also like the Talley, in straight down posititon and I love the old H&H roll over and up iron sight only bolt handle.. I suppose the only bolt handle I don't especially care for, and especially on a big bore rifle, is the M-70 swept back bolt..but I can live with it on lesser recoiling rifles, but I usually replace them with a Talley on a custom rifle, just a personal thing..... Mostly I think the bolts should be installed in such a manner as to give them a design..I like the squared off base and the bolt looks as if it was stuck into that square at the proper angle, if you know what I mean, if not, then I have no clue how to explain.. Ray Atkinson Atkinson Hunting Adventures 10 Ward Lane, Filer, Idaho, 83328 208-731-4120 rayatkinsonhunting@gmail.com | |||
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Z1r, That annoying flat back, inside checkered, is sort of ugly, but you have to admit it's much more functional on a DGR than the egg or round bolt knob, that could tend towards slipping. If you use them as opposed to looking at them some of these things need to be a consideration.. Ray Atkinson Atkinson Hunting Adventures 10 Ward Lane, Filer, Idaho, 83328 208-731-4120 rayatkinsonhunting@gmail.com | |||
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Ray, I dislike the flatbacked knobs because they are uncomfortable to use as well as being ugly. I've never had slippage with a traditional teardrop shaped knob. Another knob I detest is that on the CZ550 Safari series. Way too small and that hole in the end can bite you. I prefer function over form because if it doesn't work no matter how good it looks it's worthless. But form and function aren't mutually exclusive. You can and should combine the two. Aut vincere aut mori | |||
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I dislike the CZ550 bolt handle because it looks like a cat turd. | |||
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Oberndorf, Brno or early Mannlicher-Schoenauer. I never understood why someone would ruin a beautiful wood stock by rasping a notch in it for a low handle. | |||
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It's been my experience that you can use low mounts with a scope that has a small rear housing like a Leupold. With other scopes like the Zeiss Conquest and similar you'll need medium rings. I'm not crazy about the way the F.N. style handle looks, but I can work it faster and more precise than any other style I've ever used. Terry -------------------------------------------- Well, other than that Mrs. Lincoln, how was the play? | |||
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Dan, You crack me up...and by the way are you qualified to give expert testimony on cat turd shapes?  Mike Legistine actu quod scripsi? Never under estimate the internet community's ability to reply to your post with their personal rant about their tangentially related, single occurrence issue.  What I have learned on AR, since 2001: 1. The proper answer to: Where is the best place in town to get a steak dinner? is…You should go to Mel's Diner and get the fried chicken. 2. Big game animals can tell the difference between .015 of an inch in diameter, 15 grains of bullet weight, and 150 fps. 3. There is a difference in the performance of two identical projectiles launched at the same velocity if they came from different cartridges. 4. While a double rifle is the perfect DGR, every 375HH bolt gun needs to be modified to carry at least 5 down. 5. While a floor plate and detachable box magazine both use a mechanical latch, only the floor plate latch is reliable. Disregard the fact that every modern military rifle uses a detachable box magazine. 6. The Remington 700 is unreliable regardless of the fact it is the basis of the USMC M40 sniper rifle for 40+ years with no changes to the receiver or extractor and is the choice of more military and law enforcement sniper units than any other rifle. 7. PF actions are not suitable for a DGR and it is irrelevant that the M1, M14, M16, & AK47 which were designed for hunting men that can shoot back are all PF actions. 8. 95 deg F in Africa is different than 95 deg F in TX or CA and that is why you must worry about ammunition temperature in Africa (even though most safaris take place in winter) but not in TX or in CA. 9. The size of a ding in a gun's finish doesn't matter, what matters is whether it’s a safe ding or not. 10. 1 in a row is a trend, 2 in a row is statistically significant, and 3 in a row is an irrefutable fact. 11. Never buy a WSM or RCM cartridge for a safari rifle or your go to rifle in the USA because if they lose your ammo you can't find replacement ammo but don't worry 280 Rem, 338-06, 35 Whelen, and all Weatherby cartridges abound in Africa and back country stores. 12. A well hit animal can run 75 yds. in the open and suddenly drop with no initial blood trail, but the one I shot from 200 yds. away that ran 10 yds. and disappeared into a thicket and was not found was lost because the bullet penciled thru. I am 100% certain of this even though I have no physical evidence. 13. A 300 Win Mag is a 500 yard elk cartridge but a 308 Win is not a 300 yard elk cartridge even though the same bullet is travelling at the same velocity at those respective distances. | |||
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I am afraid not. I have no work experience or advanced education in the field, and I have performed no research concerning it, so under the Daubert line of cases I could not be qualified as an expert. | |||
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