TargetTalk

If hardly anyone mentions Walther, you must live in an alternate reality! All kidding aside a Walther KK500 should be on the list of rifles to look at. Turbo being popular in your area makes sense as the Turbos are assembled by DiOrio Mfg. in Virginia. They've been around for several years now and w...

Rover wrote: ↑Wed Jan 15, 2020 7:45 pm WOW! Who would have thought there were so many cunning linguists on this site.

I saw what you did there.

"Cunning linguists"...lol

JV

Hey! Doesn't Ms. Wierer speak three or four languages? Seems like I have heard her in German, English and of course Italian. Impressive on the course and in interviews! Dorothea is from Bruneck which is in the north of Italy very close to Austria and Liechtenstein. So they all grow up speaking both...

I was hoping that the rule change would force Dorothea Wierer to defect to the USA where she would have to give shootin’ on the fly lessons to old fat guys like me. Hey, it’s called Goal Setting! I see we're both living in the exact same false realm of reality. All I can say is that Dorothea Wierer...

Thanks for posting. Did you have fun? Biathlon is such a fantastic sport to do and or watch. That is why it is one of the most watched sports in the world. Too bad North Americans just don't get it. Watch a euro biathlon and the Superbowl looks small and definitely not nearly as exciting. Yes, I di...

If this is more appropriate in the Biathlon section of the forum please go ahead and move it, although it doesn't seem that section gets much traffic. I had the pleasure last week of attending the IBU World Cup Biathlon event at Soldier Hollow, Utah as a guest of the U.S. Biathlon Association. As a ...

If you can connect me with Howard, that would be helpful as I don’t know if a gun smith near me. Feel free to PM me his number. The used kk I know of could be had for a little over $4K & depending on the cost of re barreling it might be a possiblility vs buying a new one. Montana - i've sent yo...

Howard Pitts has re-barrelled KK500s for Ed Foley. I believe he's located somewhere in Tennessee. Contact info can be provided if you need it. J Jober, Is he the Howard Pitts who shot on the US Roberts team last year? So he's a good shot, and a good gunplumber. yes I believe that is the same Howard...

Unlike older / traditional target rifles that have their barrels pinned, clamped or screwed into the action KK500's are glued in with epoxy and a very tight fit. The action needs to be heated up significantly for barrel removal/insertion. Not sure if most gunsmiths do those kinds of barrel changes ...

https://www.olympic.org/news/tokyo-2020-event-programme-to-see-major-boost-for-female-participation-youth-and-urban-appeal Commenting on the decision, IOC President Thomas Bach said: “The fascinating new events that we approved today, together with the five new sports that were added to the Tokyo 20...

Added a couple of the less common smallbore rifles to the original post.

Rieder und Lenz and Tesro.

J

Although I am not a precision shooter, another thing I'll note is that it seems like the loading port is only half of the equation -- isn't the location of the bolt handle (and length of bolt travel) just as important? It seems like the important factor is that the non-Anschutz manufacturers have m...

Just some news....

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-cana ... SKBN1GW27Y

Interesting.

Now i see what Tim S was talking about.

There isn't a conventional loading tray either. The bolt has three locking lugs at the front, with in-built horizontal extractor claws. Best guess is that the lugs are part of an outer rotating sleeve a la Bleiker and Grunig. The loading tray is formed from the parallel guide rods that the bolt run...

Thank you Tim, I'm not able to see the Stirton photos, but I saw the ones provided by Svensta on another post. Based on the limited information from that photo it looked like there is still a load tray in front of the chamber, so one can conceivably still just place a round on the tray and push it f...

Hmm, the diagram of the FWB 2700 is a little optimistic. The rear/breech line seems to be where the bolt handle is when open. The chamber is actually above the trigger, just inside the back of the receiver. Still it's very short, if very fiddly. I'll revise as necessary, once I can see one up close...

groverdog1 wrote:Given we are all built differently, different lengths between the buttstock and pistol grip, should you not focus on the distance the loading port is from the pistol grip.?

Regardless of whether it's in relation to the trigger or pistol grip, closer is better.

Piefou wrote:The loading port of the Feinwerkbau 2800 is even behind the diopter :D

http://www.targettalk.org/viewtopic.php ... 69#p277169

oui, bien sur. ;)