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by z375 » Thu Nov 25, 2010 2:25 pm
shooter wrote:amazing shooting. Dear z375, i have been a fan of your posts and the work esp the outback. do you undertake such work for others too?
Shooter,
Thank you for the appreciation, the Outback is my pet "doodle gun" as of now and its really rewarding too see performance like this after putting in a great deal of work on this rifle and having spent many evenings doing some serious brainstorming, and I'm glad all of that didn't go in vain, tuning this rifle was not as easy as I'd thought it'd be as its built on a platform that we're not very familiar with, that is to say comparing it with an M98 action or similar. But like they say, its not the destination that matters but the journey, and let me tell you, its been fun all the way

"With solid bullets on heavy animals such as elephant, rhino and buffalo this power is quite apparent but is not so obvious as when soft-nose bullets are being used, say, lion, particularly when is a case of stopping a charge : the .404 will stop him all right, but will seldom crumple him quite so completely as will the .416" -- John Taylor, Big Game and Big Game Rifles, (Ch. IX)