Shuggy

Strange, exactly the same thing happened to me on Saturday. However, I had luckily recently upgraded my vice with a nice set of V-shaped nylon jaws designed for motorsport hose end assembly. This allows it to get a really solid, but non-marring grip on the barrel: it’s great for rifle maintenance and has allowed me to ditch the old Tipton gun vice, which took up loads of room. A good 2 handed grip on the moderator, a bit of a grunt and it was free. Lesson learned - a good daub of VP90 grease was placed on the thread for the next time.

That brings back some fond memories. The model 28 was the first fullbore pistol that I learnt to shoot. At the the time they were considered to be a bit plain and heavy, but I absolutely loved it. I have to disagree on swaged. They will work really well if used in the right way. I must have made many thousands of hollow based wadcutters, swaged from pure lead wire on an old Wamadet press and then lubed in a polythene bag. Load was 2.7 grains of Viht. N310 if I recall correctly. And they would shoot into tight clusters at 25 yards, with very little leading. But back to the OP, swaged bullets would be completely wrong for a gallery rifle. Viht. N320 is a good way to go for a 158 grain cast bullet.

I think that you would be hard pushed to tell the difference in low light. They are both excellent scopes. PM2s may be dismissed by some these days as an old design, but the one thing that they do have is mileage, i.e. many decades of successful military use. I once had the opportunity to inspect PM2 scopes that were on the tail end of an operational tour in Afghanistan. On the surface they appeared half bashed and scratched to death, but the glass was still crystal clear and the users assured me that they still dialled perfectly. That may not matter much to someone on a range or heading for a gentle hunt, but it’s certainly reassuring when you are spending a lot of money.

I must admit this had passed me by completely. I was slightly alarmed until I read the detail on .gov.uk that firearms deactivated prior to 8 April 2016 are not covered by the regulations until they are transferred. Phew!

Very smooth (and fast!) transaction. Bag exactly as advertised - thank you!

Yes, I will take this please. It should be perfect for my latest rifle.

Said shouty American is one of the top F Class competitors in the US. He has a more recent video where he surveys many other top level competitors. Without exception they all full length resize.

I recently bought the 26 inch version with monitor. Great bit of kit. It has made me completely rethink my cleaning regime, paying much more attention to carbon now.

Not UK, but PSE Composites in Ireland sell them.

The only thing that I don’t particularly care for is the ugly ATI plastic stock. One day I hope to fit a decent laminate stock. Boyds sell one, but it reportedly needs a fair bit of fitting. Here’s hoping that Form Rifle Stocks will start selling one.

Certainly, here you go. I seem to recall that I paid £650 for it, back in 1997, when I had a large wad of pistol compensation money in my pocket. Over the years I have always enjoyed how it makes the Marlin owners do a double take!

I have an Armalon PC carbine in 9mm, which is built on a Lee Enfield No4 action. It is truly a work of art.

No direct experience, but I have seen some superb stock inletting work done by Neil McKillop. I recall him saying that he always prefers to do his own inletting, as this means that everything will be perfect. I believe that laminate stocks with blank inlets can be obtained from Joe West, Form Rifle Stocks and Wood2Stock.

I guess that someone at Sig watches YouTube. https://www.thefirearmblog.com/blog/2020/11/25/sig-cross-recall/

I just bought an SL5i with borelock attachment. The SL5i is shorter and lighter than the Jet Z and given its size, it's frankly quite amazing how good its sound reduction is.

Not UK, but PSE Composites will sell you one from Ireland. However, theirs looks to be about 12" long.

Apologies for my misunderstanding. I suppose that you could, but wouldn't it rather negate the whole point, which is to have a graduated scale, allowing you to fine tune the position?

No, the EC tuner and indeed most of the other designs use nylon tipped grub screws to control the friction on the thread.

Not quite, there is still a competition running. There are 3 contenders: the Sig one, a cased telescoped round and a polymer cased one. The only bit that has been fixed is the 6.8mm General Purpose Projectile and its velocity specs, which is a government furnished design. Personally, I am pretty sceptical. It reminds me a lot of the failed .276 Enfield from 1913. That failed due to excessive heating, recoil, muzzle flash and barrel wear - and it was only about 60,000 psi chamber pressure, rather than the 80,000 psi of the new designs! It remains to be seen whether modern technologies can overcome these issues.

Many thanks.

I suppose it could work. Rather than using washers, barrel tuners use nylon tipped grub screws to set the position. I suppose that you could have your Jet-Z retrofitted with one of the spigot mount options and then have the spigot drilled and tapped for the grub screws, but this sounds like an awful lot of bother to go to. However, if you look at the the EC tuners sold by Erik Cortina, these are designed specifically so that they can be fitted behind a muzzle brake or moderator.

Is the rod aluminium alloy or stainless steel?

It's really difficult to work it out as their website is terrible! What you need are part numbers SB5603-FCV (objective), SB56-AR (adapter) and SB50EC-FCR (eyepiece).

One point not mentioned so far: are you using the original Sabatti plastic stock? The Sabatti that one of our club members owned looked like the stock was made from a glass-filled nylon. If that is the case, then I would be concerned that any epoxy based bedding compounds might have problems with adhesion. You might be better off changing to a fibreglass or laminate stock or chassis, each of which would be more compatible with bedding materials.

My Mk2 version of my DIY DOPE card holder is now finished. The objective here was to get rid of the bendy cable for something a bit neater. The key component was the Picatinny camera mount from Ant Supplies. As expected, the finish is a little rough, but it is perfectly serviceable. Next purchase was a camera mini ball mount - I got two for a fiver off Amazon, as there was no need for anything fancy. This all got fixed to a Smallrig camera cheese plate, to which the GOVO ID card holder is mounted using some 1/2 inch long 1/4 UNC cap head Allen bolts and nuts. It is important to use half thickness nuts, to get the right spacing. The only tools needed are 2mm and 3/16 Allen keys and a 12mm socket. Total cost about £37, which is about a third of the cost of the Ulfhednar and Hawk Hill Custom versions. It all seems pretty neat and doesn't interfere at all with the operation of the rifle or the scope.