Pics of Mauser Porn - Please Post Yours

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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Matt
FISH!!

Heed the words of Winston Smith in Orwell's 1984:

"Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street building has been renamed, every date has been altered. And the process is continuing day by day and minute by minute. History has stopped. Nothing exists except an endless present in which the Party is always right."

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Steve Traxson

28 March 2015, 23:24

Tsquare2

Here are a few of mine.

Top is an 09 Argentine in .416 Ruger and bottom is a G33/40 in .25-06. Both rifles by Gary Goudy

A Granite Mountain Arms 9.3x62 using a GMA action

Two views of a G33/40 .270 Win from Gary Goudy

Not really a full custom, but semi-custom would fit. A Heym-Martini Express in .416 Rigby

09 Argentine in .30-06 with a Danny Petersen barrel and Gary Goudy stock.

Nextproject, a 9.3x64 Brenneke on this 09 Argentine action Top photo before and bottom photo after Reto Buehler finished the metal for me. It is now with Gary Goudy for stocking.

29 March 2015, 01:31

Tsquare2

Guys,

I forgot to post my all-time favorite rifle and the one that I have used most in the field. It has literally accompanied me around the world and is still going strong. It doesn't shoot those little-bitty groups like it used to, but it till is plenty accurate for any hunting I still have left to do. It is a Browning made Mauser action and an FN factory barrel. David Miller and Curt Crum built the rifle for someone else, but I ended up with it a few years later. It is a great rifle.