Handloading the Great 8
If you belong to the large heard of modern calibers enthusiasts, with theyr slender, long as a pencil bullets , this blog will make you feel uncomfortable. The caliber we are talking about is an old Teutonic glory, which has survived a world war unscathed, and is gloriously moving towards century of life, still counting…
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HORNADY SST .323 170gr
Out of the box! Just arrived! High, ballistic coefficient, .445, ballanced sectional density, .233, all what we need for incredible external ballistic and outstanding terminal effect. Stay tuned… https://instagram.com/mauser_italy?igshid=1cb6xtcigp0g0
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9.3×62 Unbeatable Work Horse.
Burdensome task, writing an article about this sacred monster. For over a century it has been carrying out his work silently, with a consistency and effectiveness that is almost impossible to match. This fantastic cartridge was born from the indisputable genius of a Berlin gunsmith, Otto Bock. Owner of a small gunsmith shop, the good…
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7X66 Super Express Vom Hofe The Chimera.
Everyone, at least once, has heard of it. Almost everyone has read old articles dripping emphasis on this very rare and superlative caliber. Over time his star has stopped shining and has slowly fallen into oblivion of memories but if you ask a white-haired chamois hunter, probably you will see him wince or even surrender to nostalgia…
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9,3X64 Brenneke. Steel fist in a velvet glove
Writing about this caliber is difficult, being almost disappeared. For decades it was the European answer to the presumptuous .375 Holland & Holland spread, Wilhelm Brenneke’s most cared creature. Correct… because if the good 7 × 64 had gave eternal glory to Wilhelm, and the 8 × 64 had brought him one step closer to replacing…
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8x57JS, The Lord of War.
Before reading… In Italian the 8 number is pronounced “Otto”, that is also a german name. So i gave this nickname to my old K98, Otto, being chambered in 8x57JS, in the article i’ll frequently refer to this caliber with this nickname. Strange fate, for the old venerable “Otto”. Born from the Gewehr-Prüfungskommission , served Germany in two…
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M12 TRAIL. Lethal and compact.
When I took the Trail for the first time, my friend Guido’s words came to my mind: “it is so intuitive and ergonomic that you could hunt ducks with it”. Sensation was damn satisfying while bringing it to the shoulder: goes straight on aim, it’s short barreled, balanced, perfectly suitable for woods with the high visibility…
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Lightning fast
More about lightest bullets suitable for the venerable 7×66 Vom Hofe Although many consider this outstanding caliber obsolete, stale and even dead, we have seen growing interest by handloading enthusiasts and numerous Central European hunting culture admirers over the years. The article we published on this blog an year ago had such an echo to convince…
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COMPENDIUM ON DRIVE HUNTING.
Or rather how new 8,5×55 Blaser could subvert all we know about Drive Hunting. What you are going to read in this article arise from years of meticulous observation and search. This is not intended to be a treatise, nor a theorem, rather a partisan observation about the most exciting and insane form of hunting practiced…
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Maximum Weight.
All you have to know about heavier 9.3mm bullets for big game hunting. We recently dedicated two long and detailed articles to the heavyweights still on the top of the wave after a century of life. Renewed interest in the 9.3mm calibers is mainly due to hunting and ballistic culture that finally does justice to these…
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Introducing the Outstanding 8,5×55 Blaser.
In recent months we have enjoyed a true privilege; rarely in guns enthusiast life happens to be able to test a new calibre, even more rarely it happens to enjoy the trust of a company as famous as Mauser and to be the first to receive two new rifles for hunting field’s trial. It was a unique…
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