Scotland Stalking 7: Hardware
There comes a time in a series of posts on any hunting trip when it is time just to take a little look at some of the hardware used & that day is today. So we will start with Bambibasher’s new toy - a Rigby & as befitting such a beautiful old weapon, it is chambered is something suitably anachronistic, the British gunmakers old favourite … the quarter inch Piccadilly round – well it sounded something like that.
But before I heap up any more faux derision, I have to confess that it worked rather well … apart from when came to extracting spent cases cleanly.
Chuckmeister & Fai Chai took it in turns to use an estate rifle
a moderated .270 Sako 85, topped off with a Zeiss 2.5-10x glass. Now I know that a few of you out their hold shall we say, slightly trenchant views on the .270, well there is the usual comments section at the end of this post, please feel free to help yourselves.
As you will have already seen in previous posts, YHC was using his 6.5mm Blaser R93
which performed admirably, as you have already seen.
Comments
Just because you dont care for reloading doesnt mean the rest of us want to chuck our brass down the mountain!
Posted by: TimC | November 13, 2009 8:23 AM
Am I right in thinking the .270 is a rather loud round? The can on the Sako might make a lot of sense.
Posted by: Rob | November 13, 2009 10:58 AM
You do realize that you can be arrested in this country for stalking, don't you?
Col Beausaber
Posted by: Beausaber | November 13, 2009 11:58 AM
And with an eeeeee-vill silencer, to boot! You're goin' down, boyo!
Posted by: D.W. Drang | November 13, 2009 4:01 PM
Quite right Rob the 270 is rather loud but with a can it is a nice round. Well I like mine anyway, I don't think I would recommend it as a first rifle but once you have cut your teeth a bit it is OK.
Ghost
Posted by: Ghostrifle | November 14, 2009 12:40 AM