Recent content by machinistbutler

Good lord what a beautiful double!!

I have a disco 1 with the 4.0 liter. It has been a blast to drive and for teaching my son a bit about mechanics. It has always got me home, and I am always proud when it can actually make it up to the speed limit !

That's awesome! Good fun to get into double rifles without spending 10k! I have a couple inserts for 12 gauge so I can shoot 44 mag out of an old German double. Haven't tried it yet, but for fifty bucks will be good for a conversation if nothing else .

I contacted Prophet River, where I purchased the dies and rifle a few years ago, just to ask if they had seen this before with the seating die. They hadn't heard of this , and reached out to Hornady immediately and Hornady is sending a new die body out with no charge for shipping...

I did see some Lyman does for a good price, I am tempted to order a set , less than half the price of the hornady. This is the first issue I have had with any dies, and I probably have 30 sets, from Lee, rcbs,.redding Lyman and hornady. Hornady did offer to send me the longer 458 Lott die...

Brand new hornady cases. The die dimensions just seem way off for the seating die.

The plug for the crimper part of the die is 1.625 inches long, the pic was just to show how far the case sticks out of the die. I can barely get a thread into the rock chucker before the die would crimp the case at full stroke, without the seating plug even in the die.

Old thread but same issue with an older but new set of hornady 416 Rigby dies. Sizing due works good, but seating die does not work. The die body is shorter than my 458 Lott die body. I can barely get it one thread into my press, rock chucker, before it will start to crimp the case. If I...

I concur that a big load of 4831 in the 470 gets your attention, haven't tried the RL 15 yet, I should as I am getting older lol.

I have the 458 win in a zastava, and a rigby and lott in the cz. They are beauties. The Lott I have to run 3 rings on the scope , wrecked the Warne qd with a 1-6 razor, 3 of them no worries. I have a little 3-9 Zeiss conquest on the 416 and it has been fine. Love the 416 and 458, I think...

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Great pictures!!

I also hunted with Pieter Delport of Eintracht Jagd Safaris in Namibia . Everything I hunted was low fenced, and a fantastic experience. Couldn't have asked for anything better on my hunt and Pieter will do all he can to get the absolute best animals . I loved my experience there and will...

Wolverine supplies in Manitoba has some Merkel doubles in stock. I have purchased a fair bit of stuff from there, and they are great to deal with. Ralph Martini is great as well.

I am planning a return to Namibia to hunt again with Pieter Delport of Eintracht Jagd Safaris. I had the time of my life there. Pieter is a serious hunter, and was able to put me in position to get some fantastic trophies on a plains game hunt of a lifetime! Namibia is a beautiful, diverse...