Our North - SSE Policy Update Megathread

[KevinB]

If the locals treated the Tikkas like they treated their Lee Enfield's I would imagine operator as much as environment are to blame.

One of the key issues of Combat Development is to ensure you take your user in consideration with the requirements.

If you are writing the SOW for that rifle, it doesn't take a rocket scientist to note how those rifle are treated - and that environment and rough handling need to be considered when certain aspects are set.

The issue stock is very pretty - but incredibly stupid for the role of that rifle.

 

[Halifax Tar]

One of the key issues of Combat Development is to ensure you take your user in consideration with the requirements.

If you are writing the SOW for that rifle, it doesn't take a rocket scientist to note how those rifle are treated - and that environment and rough handling need to be considered when certain aspects are set.

The issue stock is very pretty - but incredibly stupid for the role of that rifle.

No disagreement from me.

But short of the Ruger paddle stock, I am not sure what else is going to work. They just don't build'em like they used to.

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The Ruger M77 Mark II All-Weather has been called ugly, inaccurate, and a piece of junk, but our hunting editor still loves his.

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[Kirkhill]

One of the key issues of Combat Development is to ensure you take your user in consideration with the requirements.

If you are writing the SOW for that rifle, it doesn't take a rocket scientist to note how those rifle are treated - and that environment and rough handling need to be considered when certain aspects are set.

The issue stock is very pretty - but incredibly stupid for the role of that rifle.

Can they find the same trees they used for the SMLE furniture?

 

[PrairieFella]

Can they find the same trees they used for the SMLE furniture?

Those old growth trees were cut down a hundred years ago. Not many old growth forests left.

 

[Halifax Tar]

Those old growth trees were cut down a hundred years ago. Not many old growth forests left.

I point to the pacific coast forests.

 

[Colin Parkinson]

Those old growth trees were cut down a hundred years ago. Not many old growth forests left.

You only need one and you have lot of wood left over.

 

[PrairieFella]

I point to the pacific coast forests.

Which I believe are protected? Not from BC so I don't know.

 

[Halifax Tar]

Which I believe are protected? Not from BC so I don't know.

Protected schmrotected.

Cut baby cut! Not more hippies in the way of production.

 

[Kirkhill]

Up to WW2, British

rifles were stocked in walnut, Indian rifles in walnut and tropical hardwood, and Australian

rifles in walnut and various Australian species such as coachwood.

During WW2, No4 production in UK used walnut initially (British and N American), but then used beech in Fazakerley towards 1945. Long Branch used Walnut and Birch, as did Savage. Dispersal No1 rifle production switched to beech from about 1941, and beech constituted the majority of post-war new woodwork for No1s.

UK's 1949 FTR programmes and post-war rifle production used Beech, with a small amount of walnut. Long Branch continued with Birch.

Pakistan POF

production used what appear to be a mixture of British/US walnut, and a similar dark wood usually described (probably erroneously) as "turkish walnut".

Different wood types

Folks, is there a certain type or color of wood associated with either manufacturer, time of manufacture, or FTR?

www.milsurps.com

Pretty sure we are still growing and harvesting walnut.

 

[Halifax Tar]

Different wood types

Folks, is there a certain type or color of wood associated with either manufacturer, time of manufacture, or FTR?

www.milsurps.com

Pretty sure we are still growing and harvesting walnut.

Tons of birch around too.

 

[KevinB]

Can they find the same trees they used for the SMLE furniture?

Pretty sure the creosote that went on those before being oiled and waxed is forbidden these days.

 

[Kirkhill]

Pretty sure the creosote that went on those before being oiled and waxed is forbidden these days.

Silly bugger regulations.

 

[PrairieFella]

Silly bugger regulations.

You aren't the one that would get some weird ass cancer from it haha

 

[Kirkhill]

You aren't the one that would get some weird ass cancer from it haha

No. More likely to have got lead poisoning from firing the 22 version in the indoor range at the Peterborough Armouries as a Sea Cadet.

 

[Colin Parkinson]

No. More likely to have got lead poisoning from firing the 22 version in the indoor range at the Peterborough Armouries as a Sea Cadet.

The only person I know that got lead poisoning from shooting is my IPSC instructor and that was firing 40,000+ rds a year, mostly in a poorly vented indoor range (fixed now).