lets see your thick bush guns!

c-fbmi said:
If it's thicker bush and nastier critters I would be using this............



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Doug I know you have probably mentioned this, but what do you use for a bullet and what speed are you getting out of the double? Is it prudent to load a modern double above the traditional British loads?
 
Nothing walks away after being hit with a rifled slug within 75 yards...

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crazy_davey said:
You just have to be smarter than the hat ;). Its called a stampede string.

Blowing close to 140km/h here a few days ago and I still have my hat. R:d:
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The cowboys where I grew up wore the ten gallon hat to the barn dances and / or bars and when it came time to jump on the horse out came the ball cap..
 
You'd think some would be carrying the Ruger Alaskan for a brush gun .. seems well suited for this role.

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meant to say Savage 116 Alaskan Brush Hunter
 
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Boomer said:
Yup, I found the FR8 rifles kind of interesting. They come with a factory rear peep sight, which I think had different aperture settings on a dial for different ranges. The problem is the rear sight is permanently fixed to the rifle, which prevents the conventional mounting of a scope if that's your preference. The front sight is a tapered post, so its more difficult to aim with than a flat topped post, but the cool thing is it turns in an eccentric, which provides the adjustment for windage. The tube behind the bayonet mount contains the oiler. Chambered for 7.62X51, it makes a decent iron sighted bush gun, but at the time they were popular there seemed to be a consensus not to load them to full .308 pressures. I'm glad I never bought one though, by the time I had finished modifying it, I'm sure it would have cost as much as a high end sporting rifle.
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Blasphemy ! This bad boy will be staying all original. Should be here by tomorrow... Then taking it into gunsmith, getting it checked out as previous owner had never fired. Want to make sure we wont have any issues with use.
 
Kevin M. said:
My Grandfather smoked his whole life. I was about 10 years old when my mother said to him, 'If you ever want to see your grandchildren graduate, you have to stop immediately.' Tears welled up in his eyes when he realized what exactly was at stake, and he gave it up immediately, quit smoking cold turkey. Three years later he died of lung cancer. It was very sad and destroyed me. My mother said to me- 'Don't ever smoke... Please don't put your family through what your Grandfather put us through. I agreed. At 26, I have never touched a cigarette. I must say, I feel a good sense of regret for never trying it after all these years, because your post gave me cancer anyways.
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Savage A F lmao
 
madashell said:
Yeah, true enough on the specs. The pics are deceiving, it LOOKS like a great brush gun.
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I agree..... When you mentioned it, I looked it up and first impression was "neat".....

Then read specs.... Second impression was "WTF".....

No reason for a 20 inch barreled rifle to weigh that much.... Unless they added weight due to caliber?.....
 
7.6 pounds is pretty light for a .375 or .338 rifle...

I would also add that with the spacers in to fit my personal LOP an 18 inch barrel GSR is 41 inches oal.

They have a thicker contour barrel iirc, not a very impressive gun when in hand imo.

I guess optics would add weight but who needs them for a bush gun.

I don't know about you guys, but my massive head and appendages are more likely to smash into stuff than a rifle carried slung over the left shoulder barrel facing down. I like short guns though, especially for upland. Lots of walking/climbing involved in trying to score the grouse triple crown.
 
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