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We are in the town head Hotel at Lockerbie, Tel, but I would think its now full. A stalking pal of mine stops in the Ecclefechan Hotel every fortnight, its cheap, food is good, and they are very welcoming to shooters [its Scotland after all ! ] Look forward to a catch up old pal.

Bernie is still making lots of solids John. I'll quiz a pal.

Certainly, I built an awful lot of them about 10 years ago.

You won't be disappointed. We went last weekend, and I was astounded at the place. There really is no other range in the UK with facilities like this one, and what's there is just the start. Thank God its in the North.

I built an LBP from a heavy barrelled gun many years back. Custom grips, brake etc etc. Shot it in the England squad for some time, and achieved a maximum score at advancing man at Bisley one Gallery meeting [can't remember if it was the phoenix or not ] Very accurate, and very reliable. Wish i'd never sold it.

Thats the one ! Ive just realised too, I was messing about melting lead in an old pellet tin, nailed to the shed door Jamb, 45 years ago.... A friend accidentendatly shot me in the wrist with one of these pellets, it penetrated 2" and lodged in the bones at the wrist. They sure did penetrate.

Ahh...thats an AICS stock Ian, thought you meant a full AW rifle. Still a bit rare though.

Many years ago, i had a bullet mould called a LEM spitzer. It made a bullet shaped slug with a hole in the back. Weighed about 25-30 grains I believe. Made in blackpool if I remember right. Might be worth an eagle bay search ?

Looking at that pic....your 10mm is missing....😂

Look into my eyes.......

Not gonna comment on the young lad. However, is anyone surprised at what is happening ? Law abiding homeowners and business owners are not going to stand back and watch looters, and criminals destroy their property and livelihoods, and neither should they. When it escalates from a punch up to armed criminals, and that's what they are, doing the looting, people who are armed will fight back. Only when the rioters start to realise this, will it stop. Brace yourselves for the bank holiday chaos here, with extinction rebellion trying to block roads, and stop people going on holiday this weekend. I really hope the riot truncheons and tear gas are going to be deployed. Anarchy needs stamping on, very quickly, and very hard. We haven't spent the last 4 months locked down, to watch a few hundred crusties spread the virus, and stop law abiding people going about their business.

Yep....its rare ! Dont sell it, you will unlikely ever find another.

You won't need that .20 cal/12 ft/lb one anymore. 😁

Anyone doing that to an AW wants their knackers chopping off. The stock sides [original ones] for the AW are no longer made, but the new style stock sides as in the pics are made to fit the AW. Use them, and keep your old skins whole ...PLEASE... A very nice looking Kit that Alan.

The extension contains the lugs, so yes, it has to be a harder, different steel.

Quite a rare rifle here, probably due to the ridiculous price, but a nice rifle non the less. The customer decided he wanted a .300 Norma Magnum barrel for it. Sako don't do it, neither will they sell the barrel extension. Not helpful Sako. A 338 bolt, barrel and magazine kit was purchased, and the barrel extension robbed to make this barrel up The barrel extension is very simple, and I have no doubt someone will make some. A 1-9" Sassen cut rifled blank was chosen, in a heavy varmint contour, I use a lot on AI rifles, modified to suit the Sako. Finished at 30" long with an M18 x 1 muzzle thread and fitted with my new 4 port brake. Painted in Cerakote graphite black, in house as usual. If its run in, in time, hope to see this in action at Gardners this coming weekend.

This is a better action than the Vudu , i believe.

Yep. Overkill is undoubtedly the word. I've rapidly realised that PRL/PR etc, are won and lost on positional stages. No good being sh1t hot off a bipod, you won't get many chances. I shoot an AXMC and its a lovely, heavy gun. Covid, little range use, and work time constraints have truly buggered up my practise [not that i never did much anyway ] this year, as it has for so many of us. I'm no fan of .22lr, always thought it a pipsqueak. However, it dawned on me a while back, that if I could come up with a similar weighted rifle, with a trigger that could mimic the AXMC, and have the ability to accept all the bags etc used in PRL, then it would be a route worth taking. A saturday morning, up and down on tank traps, or any other thrown together barricade, and a 500 brick of ammo, would give some very useful, cheap, and easily available practise. Here's the result. This is a Zermatt Rim-X action, made by bighorn. I'm a huge fan of their actions, and use a lot in full bore builds, as they are so damn versatile with that removable bolt head. This looks like an Origin, with a little port. The bolt is a work of art, and has several unique features, the main one, being a fixed extractor, bolted onto the bolt face, which instantly makes it controlled round feed, and magazine feed only. That means a re barrel is easy, as there is no extractor slot in the breech face. The round slips under it, where it is held at the opposite side by a sprung , tiny widget. The ejector is in the rear of the action, and you can either drop the cases a couple of inches away, or ping them into the weeds, depending on how fast you manipulate the bolt handle. It feed as slick as a greased weasel. The bolt is very easy to strip, and the firing pin is easy to pop off and clean. The action is rem 700 footprint, and will fit any stock/chassis for a rem. The magazine is designed to be used in a chassis or DBM that takes AICS magazines. The mags are a work of art. They have a follower you can pull down from either side to release the spring pressure to load the magazine. They are a clamshell design, machined from billet aluminium, easy to strip and clean. The most innovative part, is that they have an adjustable latch at the rear, so you can set them to your system perfectly. With a little trial and error, i did it inside 5 minutes. The barrel is a heavy varmint proof research, threaded and fitted with an ASE rimfire mod, which is super quiet. Trigger is a Triggertech unit with a stupidly light pull, which sadly, i'm gonna have to make heavier, to mirror my full bore pull weight. Think I'm going to enjoy using this . I had a spare Kahles kicking about with a mil ret, and spur mount, so that went on, to up the weight a bit. Originally, i planned to use an AX stock, but the pistol grip is the same on the AT, and once the length of pull and cheekpiece were set, I didn't think it necessary . Swapped a couple of skin sets around to give a 2 colour effect that looked well, with the scope, and then added one of Mike Barratt's excellent ARCA rails, designed to fit the AT stock, and that's about it.

Finished this a couple of weeks back. One of our local target shooters, wanted something a bit special in his retirement. He likes to have a bit of a plink, and a bit of non too serious FTR etc. We started with a single shot Borden Alpine action, and fitted it with a Sassen cut rifled blank [think it was, or could have been a Bartlien ] heavy varmint contour in a 1-10". 11 degree target crown, and bead blasted to match the action. The stock was made by Warren Edwards who is very close to me in Rotherham, and we've done several bits together now. This is a beautiful piece of Turkish walnut, and he brought it over, roughed out so I could bed it. It then went to the chequerer, who did a beautiful job on the skip-line, and then came back for finishing. Trigger is a trigger tech, and it has an ADL trigger guard. Something a little different for a refreshing change.

A pleasure Gary.

£150 plus carriage.

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Sure Gary, what calibre is it for ?

Sorry the video is crap, i've set something wrong somewhere, but you get the gist. This is a 6XC.