Sweet, there are now locally made 50 Beowulf magazines in Canada. Press Check Ventures has started making the PCV-50, a polymer, 5 round 50 Beo or 458 SOCOM magazine for $55. Apparently, Trevor from Reload Radio has already played with them. (CGN Thread) http://presscheckventures.3dcartstores.com/PCV-50_p_8.html
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AR15 Parts in Canada – Stocks, uppers, etc
This is a big departure for this site, because AR15′s are restricted and can’t be used for hunting in Canada. But. . .I got an AR lower and wanted to find info on parts availability, and the spreadsheet below is the result. I just had to share it because it took a while and some of the [...]
Budget Stock DIY Repair
During one weekend I had a chance to help my father-in-law dust off some of his firearms. We came across his Midland gun company (Parker Hale) 30-06 bolt action rifle. He shared some of his hunting stories that he had with this rifle back in the “good ‘ol days”, including how the wooden stock cracked [...]
DIY Savage Axis Trigger Job
DIY Savage Axis Trigger Job Warning: screwing around with your trigger comes with some risk. You should have a good idea of what the rifle trigger should be doing, have a bit of mechanical sense, and test rigorously afterwards. If you adjust your trigger according to this content, you take responsibility for your modifications. If [...]
Sighting in a Rifle for Long Range Hunting
Modern bolt action rifles are a modern day pleasure. Considering what people earn these days, an accurate bolt action rifle is much more within reach than it ever has been before. A new Remington 700 in 1962 would cost $115. That’s at a time when average monthly household income was $500. In 2012, the average [...]
Savage Axis Accessories
The Savage Axis is an incredibly inexpensive rifle and will be the starting point for a lot of hunters. I’ve got a few Axis-specific accessories below, but in order, here’s what I think should be replaced or upgraded: Trigger. It was hard to determine if I should recommend a $200 scope or a $100 trigger, [...]
What is the most accurate 130 grain 270 Winchester?
I love the 270. It’s cheap, fast, accurate enough, comes in all sorts of rifles, carries enough to kill a deer at distance, and recoils well within reason. Out of my “popular hunting rounds” article, it’s easily my favorite. So when an opportunity to get a boxing sale Savage Axis came up, I got one [...]
Popular Hunting Cartridge Ballistics Shootout
Looking at getting a rifle in a different caliber, or looking at getting your first rifle? The array and names of the cartridges can be confusing. Is a 308 bigger than a 30 “ought six”? Is a 7mm bigger than a 9mm pistol? The makers of these different cartridges sure haven’t made it easy to [...]
The 12 Most Popular Hunting Gear Posts of 2012
2012 has been a busy year. It’s the first year of HGG and things have been going well. In 2012, we completed: 10 rifle reviews 17 hunting equipment reviews 5 general tips articles 4 reloading articles 2 archery reviews and 2 wild game recipe articles Now, I wanted to re-share the most popular 12 of [...]
338 Win Mag vs 338 Lapua Mag
I’ve found a lot of people finding my site when searching for differences between the 338 winchester magnum and the 338 Lapua Magnum and I wasn’t too pleased with some of the other results, so I thought I’d lay out all the differences in one spot. Performance The primary difference between the 338 Win mag [...]
