The UK's Finest Independent Forum for Shooters and Gun Owners. Est 2010.

meles meles wrote:So what would we ask our friendly FLO for ? Can we just pop it on an empty 6.5 x 55 slot on our FAC, or do we need to call it a LBP and ask specifically for that ?

:lol: It just goes to highlight the silliness of our laws - in the current format it is an LBP, change the stock and it's a rifle.

So we'd need specifically to ask for a LBP slot then, rather than just using an empty slot we already have in the correct calbre... ?

Are LBP slots easy to acquire?

meles meles wrote:So we'd need specifically to ask for a LBP slot then, rather than just using an empty slot we already have in the correct calbre... ?

Are LBP slots easy to acquire?

Not if you have 'good reason'.

We'd best think of a bad reason then...

meles meles wrote:We'd best think of a bad reason then...

:lol: :lol:

For and extra £125 you can have a 357 Maximum barrel - is that bad enough?

357 maximum: the more we read about it, the less we like it.

6.5x55 on the other paw...

We succumbed: We bought it in 6.5x55 Swedish.

6.5Ai --abundant brass ,long life barrel beyond accurate beyond 1km what more can a boy (or badger) want ?

waterford103 wrote:6.5Ai --abundant brass ,long life barrel beyond accurate beyond 1km what more can a boy (or badger) want ?

A set of reloading dies?

Right oomans, back to the challenge - a suitable rifle calibre. This, building a custom rifle, is now Plan B in case another option doesn't come off. It seems to be that 6.55x55 Swedish is what we need, so we just need to settle on the action, barrel and stock.