404 Jeffery
- Thread starter RockChucker
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BigUglyMan
CGN Ultra frequent flyer
- Location
- New Scotland
This time on the 15th and I'll be on a plane. 10 sleeps.
- Location
- Whitehorse, Yukon
Just for GIBBS505................ Hope these pics make you happy!
Nothing special yet, barrel band front sight and matching rear sight are on route from NECG. Haven't settled on a stock yet but most likely a Pepper Laminate from Boyds.
Optics will most likely be a Leupold 1.5x5 but thats open to discussion.
RC
Nothing special yet, barrel band front sight and matching rear sight are on route from NECG. Haven't settled on a stock yet but most likely a Pepper Laminate from Boyds.
Optics will most likely be a Leupold 1.5x5 but thats open to discussion.
RC
- Location
- Somewhere on the Hudson Bay Coast
I for one would not choose a M-700 for use as a serious rifle, but many do including gun guru Ross Seyfried who packed around a slightly modified M-700 in.416 Reminigton in a particularly ugly Brown Precision stock he built up with bondo. Have I had a M-700 extractor fail? Only 3 times if we include my M-7, and 3 is enough.
Choosing to use what the PH's use is not necessarily the best option. Often their access to quality rifles is limited compared to North Americans or even Europeans, and they have to pay more for them so they get what they can as opposed to what they need. There are PHs who carry expensive double rifles, but I believe that as the years go by encountering a double in the field will become so rare that doing so will be a it will be a fewer and fewer even though they appear to having surge in popularity at the moment. The cost of a good double is intimidating even for a well healed hunter and they are often chambered for cartridges that are unsuitable for general use. The client needs a rifle that can take a miniature antelope or a baboon without destroying the trophy quality, take plains game out 300 yards, and yet be able to flatten dangerous game at close range, and it in many cases must be able to do all these things with a single load. Travel restrictions and entry requirements to African countries make the one rifle safari more attractive. Finally, the PH's rifle and the client's rifle fill much different roles. The PH's rifle is a close range stopper. His job is to find game for his client, get his client on target, and ensure the client is not injured or killed by the intended game animal, or some other threat that from time to time one encounters in the African bush. The client will universally find that the powerful mid bores from 9.3 - .416 are the correct answer when chambered in a good quality bolt gun fitted with a low power scope.
BUM, I hope you have a great trip!
Choosing to use what the PH's use is not necessarily the best option. Often their access to quality rifles is limited compared to North Americans or even Europeans, and they have to pay more for them so they get what they can as opposed to what they need. There are PHs who carry expensive double rifles, but I believe that as the years go by encountering a double in the field will become so rare that doing so will be a it will be a fewer and fewer even though they appear to having surge in popularity at the moment. The cost of a good double is intimidating even for a well healed hunter and they are often chambered for cartridges that are unsuitable for general use. The client needs a rifle that can take a miniature antelope or a baboon without destroying the trophy quality, take plains game out 300 yards, and yet be able to flatten dangerous game at close range, and it in many cases must be able to do all these things with a single load. Travel restrictions and entry requirements to African countries make the one rifle safari more attractive. Finally, the PH's rifle and the client's rifle fill much different roles. The PH's rifle is a close range stopper. His job is to find game for his client, get his client on target, and ensure the client is not injured or killed by the intended game animal, or some other threat that from time to time one encounters in the African bush. The client will universally find that the powerful mid bores from 9.3 - .416 are the correct answer when chambered in a good quality bolt gun fitted with a low power scope.
BUM, I hope you have a great trip!
Just for GIBBS505................ Hope these pics make you happy!
Nothing special yet, barrel band front sight and matching rear sight are on route from NECG. Haven't settled on a stock yet but most likely a Pepper Laminate from Boyds.
Optics will most likely be a Leupold 1.5x5 but thats open to discussion.
RC
Chamber ???
Best of luck BUM!
- Location
- Whitehorse, Yukon
X-fan..........Chambered in 404 Jeffery.
Plastic and Stainless Horror
Putting a classic caliber like the Jeffery into a plastic and stainless steel, push feed rifle seems morally repugnant.
Fine wood and blued steel in a CRF rifle is what is required, if not by practical hunting considerations, then by tradition.
.....[edited].... No doubt it could be purchased for cheap, and there may be many good reasons to buy it. ....[edited]...
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Alf
Just for GIBBS505................ Hope these pics make you happy!
Nothing special yet, barrel band front sight and matching rear sight are on route from NECG. Haven't settled on a stock yet but most likely a Pepper Laminate from Boyds.
Optics will most likely be a Leupold 1.5x5 but thats open to discussion.
RC
Putting a classic caliber like the Jeffery into a plastic and stainless steel, push feed rifle seems morally repugnant.
Fine wood and blued steel in a CRF rifle is what is required, if not by practical hunting considerations, then by tradition.
.....[edited].... No doubt it could be purchased for cheap, and there may be many good reasons to buy it. ....[edited]...
....[edited]....
Alf
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Just for GIBBS505................ Hope these pics make you happy!
Nothing special yet, barrel band front sight and matching rear sight are on route from NECG. Haven't settled on a stock yet but most likely a Pepper Laminate from Boyds.
Optics will most likely be a Leupold 1.5x5 but thats open to discussion.
RC
Looking good, really good!!!
I had my 505 Gibbs in such a stock and felt that it was better for general use in the bush. After all it is a hunting rifle not a showpiece.
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- Location
- Whitehorse, Yukon
Well "ALFREDS" thank you for your much valued opinion!
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- Location
- Stony Plain, Alberta
Waste of good ammo through one of the cheapest actions ever produced. I'll never understand the 700's popularity. Just my 2cents.
- Location
- Whitehorse, Yukon
Just ordered two more 404 barrels last night to keep as spares J.I.C.
RC
RC
- Location
- Whitehorse, Yukon
First range report:
Rhino SP Bonded 400gr @ 2285fps seem to work well accuracy wise for hunting. Recoil is rather stout ! Rifle weighs in under 9lbs with test optics still about a pound short of ideal weight. Suprizingly the SPS stock hasn't folded up like a cheap pup tent YET.
Rhino SP Bonded 400gr @ 2285fps seem to work well accuracy wise for hunting. Recoil is rather stout ! Rifle weighs in under 9lbs with test optics still about a pound short of ideal weight. Suprizingly the SPS stock hasn't folded up like a cheap pup tent YET.
