.275 Rigby Ruger Hawkeye RSI Stainless: Single Malt for Twenty Bucks
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Ardent
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Catch the jest but an opportunity to self justification, too busy between flying / outfitting / little kids to supply myself with a bunch of different chamberings.
Would rather have a bunch of different rifles in the same few chamberings, grab and go, saves a lot of money too in duplication of components for me. I do bend the rules, different cases for a couple rifles, but everything is .224/7mm/.375 bores, and only really use two chamberings guiding. My bullets are sponsored is another issue and they won’t supply me with a half dozen diameters, they give me three and that’s pretty generous, won’t bug em for more.
Ardent
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Controlled, they haven’t made the push feed (tang safety) since 1984.
I have been thinking about 375, 7mm. I understand the almost arbitrary way you control your gunoholism.Catch the jest but an opportunity to self justification, too busy between flying / outfitting / little kids to supply myself with a bunch of different chamberings.
Catch the jest but an opportunity to self justification, too busy between flying / outfitting / little kids to supply myself with a bunch of different chamberings.
If you load for multiple rifles in the same caliber, do the loads ever overlap or are they all different load charge and COL?
Ardent
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I load mine like factory ammo, just make one load for all rifles. If it shoots an inch and a half I’m completely happy, and don’t chase / fine tune loads anymore there just isn’t time in my life right now.
Crazy_Farmer
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I've been having a .275 rigby itch for a few months now. Might have to scratch it haha
daddylonglegs
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- Big River, Saskatchewan
For anyone interested, there is a gorgeous Lipsey's special Stainless Ruger RSI chambered in 250 Savage listed on Bud Haynes auction site for the upcoming gun auction in early December.
May I ask is there any significant practical difference between the CRF and the push feed?
You aren't asking me, but my 2 coppers on this question is that I don't prefer the M77 MKII's for the CRF, but rather I prefer the 3-position safety over the M77 Tang safety, and I prefer the "fit & finish" and milled parts over the M77 Hawkeye rifles.
Ardent
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I’ll add push feed in my eyes is a manufacturing cop out. Controlled feed isn’t necessary as many decent guns have shown, but it also is a nice insurance policy. Basically a the controlled feed holds and controls the round all the way into the chamber, and can’t be “stuttered”. That is if in a moment of game induced anxiety you don’t finish pushing the bolt home and try and cycle the action again, a push feed will irrecoverably jam with a double feed where as a controlled feed doesn’t care and will rechamber and fire. For those of us guiding animals like grizz for a living a push feed is a short cut I just don’t see as benefitting me, and while the controlled feed offers more than typically required it’s nice to have the best system when it’s the same price as its push feed competition. It’s more expensive to make and more difficult for manufacturers to tune, and only has one drawback which in the field is meaningless: you generally have to single feed rounds from the mag rather than putting it directly in the chamber when operating it as a single shot. There are workarounds for that too but no sense being bothered on a hunting rifle, as it’s a range Cadillac concern.
Sorry...my bad.
I understand what CRF is...and how it applies to bolt actions. But I guess my curiosity was how much would it make a difference for a single shot firearm such as the Ruger 1A? I know that the original post was a Hawkeye RSI so this post is sort of off topic for the OP's post.
I understand what CRF is...and how it applies to bolt actions. But I guess my curiosity was how much would it make a difference for a single shot firearm such as the Ruger 1A? I know that the original post was a Hawkeye RSI so this post is sort of off topic for the OP's post.
Ardent
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No such thing as a CRF single shot, or maybe it means a tight finger hold on the cartridge. Let’s play and say that’s why we prefer two barrels in parallel for such applications. The single / double argument of the same vein is rimmed, or rimless cartridges, the traditionalists and those obsessed with redundancy to the point of it being a perversion like rimmed cases for reliability of extraction.
