Izh Tigr 7.62 - the best hunting rifle I have seen.
- Thread starter andudarev
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No problem with him liking it, but declaring it "best"???
I must agree that for hunting, that is possibly one of the worst types. Heavy, awkward, long, too many things hanging out to grab every available branch/twig/grass/clothing etc.... The cartridge is ok, but nothing special.
Take that on a sheep hunt, or backpack elk hunt and see if you still think it is the "best" anything.
Take that on a sheep hunt, or backpack elk hunt and see if you still think it is the "best" anything.
boss351cleveland
CGN frequent flyer
- Location
- Down by the river
I would not want to haul that brick around the bush for hunting , great military rifle though , i would own one in a heartbeat if i could but there is just so much better and lighter out there for hunting.
Dorian Gray
CGN Ultra frequent flyer
I liked the one I tried in Chukotka.
Lots of oomph in the 7.62 x 54R cartridge.
You sure do get to meet some, ugh, interesting looking characters in your line of work huh?
You sure do get to meet some, ugh, interesting looking characters in your line of work huh?
That man standing to my left discovered a 5 million ounce gold deposit (with 50 million ounces of silver) located 250 km away from the nearest small town.
He may look rough but as a geologist I don't deserve to even carry his rifle.
- Location
- West Quebec
Some what true we cherish what we can't have..
- Location
- West Quebec
You sure do get to meet some, ugh, interesting looking characters in your line of work huh?
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Chukotka is a restricted oblast (state) above the Arctic Circle in the Russian Far East. It is very difficult for foreigners to get permission to visit or work there.
It was the site of many of their alluvial gold mines and was an integral part of their Gulag (Soviet era) system with prisoner life expectancy in mines being less than 6 months. A hard place.
It was the site of many of their alluvial gold mines and was an integral part of their Gulag (Soviet era) system with prisoner life expectancy in mines being less than 6 months. A hard place.
- Location
- West Quebec
I liked the one I tried in Chukotka.
Lots of oomph in the 7.62 x 54R cartridge.
Someone was not happy ... is that you or the other guy with the gun
It's beautiful and the gulags have been shutdown a long time. It is very remote so help is a long ways (and time) away so mistakes can be very costly.
"No place for beginners or sensitive hearts" - Sade
How you get there.
The white specks are caribou.
And the nightlife is beautiful.
- Location
- West Quebec
He's driving, I'm riding on top.
He still looks pizzed did you not pay him enough or is it because you got the gun and the girl
- Location
- West Quebec
It's beautiful and the gulags have been shutdown a long time. It is very remote so help is a long ways (and time) away so mistakes can be very costly.
"No place for beginners or sensitive hearts" - Sade
How you get there.
The white specks are caribou.
And the nightlife is beautiful.
Beautiful but cold looking..
Cold? The river breaks up around the 1st of June and freezes to bottom by the end of September.
You can get temperatures down to -43C, winds to 120 km/hr. One day I tried to calculate the windhill on my Env. Canada chart and the wind speed was off the chart!
The permafrost goes down 650m.
We discovered that even arctic grade Jet B fuel freezes if it gets cold enough.
Our double wall, insulated Weatherhaven tents with oil burning stoves would have a pile of snow half a meter deep inside the door in the morning.
The winds were so strong the aluminum tent frames would flex and our doors would open so we'd wire them shut at night and when we left in the morning we'd throw pallets against the outside of the doors to keep them shut.
It's too arid and cold to get a lot of snow but you get some deep drifts after a storm. it's only 200m to the washroom tent. Good luck in the morning!
- Location
- West Quebec
I won't complain too much about Canadian winters from now on..
