As many have helped me here, I am taking their suggestions on how to post this one.

It is a Blaser R8 with Grade 9 wood, you can have a choice of calibers - .222 Rem, .223 Rem, .270 Win, , 7mm Rem Mag, .300 Win Mag, .308 Win. The pictures below show it with the .308 barrel (I used this on a recent elk hunt).

It comes with a Swarovski Z5i Scope in 3.5-18x44 P BT Plex-i illuminated reticle. This gun likes three different loads equally well.

The barrels on .270 and up are threaded 5/8x24...

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Hello All. In my introduction post I mentioned my wife and I are planning our first SA Safari for spring (US) 2028. We have attended DSC and SCI Nashville and quite frankly our head is spinning from information overload. This is going to be a very special trip for us since it will be the year of my 60th birthday as well as our 40th wedding anniversary, so we want it to be a very special and memorable trip.

Desired animals:

• Gembok
• Nyala
• Kudu
• Red Lechwe or Waterbuck...

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I used Vero Velini for 12 years in Alaska but after 12 years of total Alaska everything it delt they finally wore out .Is there anything better or just get more of them .I loved them on my 338-378 weatherby accumark felt 6 pounds .I used them on my binoculars too .I guess thats the life spand of them .They really held my rifle good and worked awesone just didnt last forever .

My Pelican 1700 has two mid-layers of foam cut for two different pairs of guns. They have been relegated to the scrap foam pile to be used when I have a need for a chunk of firm foam in some project. They have been replaced with Pelican's Re-Set grids. Stumbled on this new system a couple weeks before the SCI convention while looking for something else. Tested on the flight to Nashville. This system works.
The Re-Set, with the plastic grid holding a bunch of firm foam pegs, not quite an...

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some of you might recall my Kimber Super America rimfire rifle being severely damaged in shipping. It is my favorite rimfire rifle and I have put many rounds (several thousand) through it. It's the gun I practice the most on sticks with. It was at a gunsmith friend's place to have some magazines repaired as I had about worn them out. When it arrived back to me, I was shocked on opening the box...







We made all kinds of efforts with the shipper to...

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