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I love Australian pub rock from the early '70's and into the mid '80's. The most famous would be AC/DC but we had many others including Rose Tattoo, the Angels and Cold Chisel who I consider to be better than AC/DC, but they never cracked the American market. Cold chisel had a powerhouse front...

I don't shot one, but I did have a full custom Ruger No 1 built for my fathers 50th birthday. It's not a benchrest rifle by any standards, but it does shoot very well for a Ruger No 1, and I didn't get the "best" for it I could, I wanted to keep as much of it Australian as possible. We have some...

Hi guys, I have a weatherby Mk V in .340 weatherby, and I'd like to switch barrel it. Has anybody done this before? I want to use my weatherby action because it doen't have the recoil lug of my rem 700's. I was thinking if I get my 'smith to undo the factory barrel, then just nip it up and put...

I was hoping that by adding a screw forward and aft of the middle screw, it could be left pretty well loose, and I'd then do up the screws in the fasion of normal 2 screw actions, the front one pretty tight and the rear one just snugged up. I am not sure if its been done with any luck on these...

I have a 1957 brno model 2 (same as the 452) that I am going to rebarrel. What I was also thinking of doing was adding a recoil lug in the front of the action like remington do, then adding a take down screw into it. I was also going to add a lug onto the tang of the action and add a screw into...

Thanks guys for all the replies, I have learnt alot from the comments made here. Basicaly I have a few very accurate varmint rifles built on trued rem 700 actions with match grade SS barrels. They shoot quiet well for what they are, and I have developed a liking for seeing just how accurate I...

Well that settles that then I am looking to get into benchrest shooting and was thinking of doing a .222 to start off with, but going all the way with it. Looks like I'd just be better off with a 6mm PPC. Pitty Steve

I take it the only real problems with the .222, is that its more wind sensitive than the 6mm PPC, and that it might beharder to get an accurate load worked up? Steve

I have been reading here abit about guys who have "classic" or old school bench guns often in .222, and I also know that sometime ago the little .222 was king of the accuracy crowd. I have searched but i cant find why the .222 lost favour to the PPC's. I wonder if I could have a .222 built with...

Hi guys, i have just purchased a brno (old version of cz) .22 that has been set up for hunter class benchrest. The dovetails on the action have been modified to acept Kelby rings which is fine except from the website it seems as if they only make one height. If for some reason I either cant get...

I was more asking about how many shots roughly would it take before a noticable drop in accuracy occurs? I mean that if a gun will shoot .2's pretty regular and 2 weeks, 1 month or 10 years down the track it wont shoot under .3, then there has been a loss of accuracy, regardless of if its a...

I have a 1957 brno that was used for a long time as pro rabbit shooters 2nd rifle, when working it would have done between 350-500 shots a night. I know it was used for about 5-6 years and in that time it would have worked maybe 1 night in 5. Then there is the 30 odd bricks I have put through...

Hi guys I have just brought a secondhand rifle that was used for hunter class benchrest. The rifle is built around an older brno model 2 (same as the cz 452), that has been trued, fitted with extra take down screws, had a recoil lug installed, it wears either a Maddco or a Shilen stainless...

Thanks guys, you all have given me some pretty good info here. I'll post the results when I get my new rifle Cheers Steve

Thanks guys for the help, I dont overly like nickle brass myself, but at night it can be easy to confuse a .204 with a .17/223 or a .222, so I went the nickle option just to aid in keeping the right ammo in the right gun. Steve

I am having a .17/.223 built at the moment, the rifle is a rem 700 which will be fully trued, fitted with a 27" Lilja heavy contour barrel, and bedded into a rem laminated varmint stock. The trigger has already been worked over to about 10 oz, and I am going to mount a Leupold VX3 6.5-20x40 on...

its a pitty you dont live down under, my local gunsmith makes a brilliant trigger for brno 1's.

I use tons of Re 7 in my .222 and Re 22 in both my .340 wby and .416 Rigby, and to be perfectly honest I dont think that these powders burn any different to other powders I use. It has been stated that hot loads which all of mine are may help with cleaner burning? But for me Re 7 gives the best...

I know that this is a little of topic, but I have had marvellous results using ADI's Benchmark 2 (sold as benchmark to you guys) with 25 grain bullets in my .17 rem. Starting loads were yeilding close to 3900fps, with HEAPS of room to get faster if you wanted, also with 50 grain Nosler BT...