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That were an under-handed beachball!

Cool pics and posts ,enjoyed them. A lot of older scopes had enuf eye relief that the rear of the occular lense was about even with the end of the tang. My M70 and M77 with K4 Weavers were so and other rifles I have with Vx 3's 2.5x8 same eye relief. As far as the ring spacing goes I believe they felt back then that it was stronger and more reliable to mount a scope that way.No doubt about it though, its a great looking outfit. Magnum Man

MM: Yes back then they believed in putting as much tube between the rings as possible,feeling overhand was not good if scopes took a whack or bump while hunting; scope tubes sorta flex.....

Long eye relief kept scopes from biting on magnum rifles or flopped prone uphill.

And scopes were simply not as big, and intended to mount low.I think these are still pretty good ideas

How did these poor guys kill anything?

I was inspired by his book, "The Accurate RIfle". I particularly enjoyed his check on bedding of a rifle and used his process quite a lot. Still have the book after 35 years.

i am feeling the itch for a mashburn, is there another cartridge you can get as a general starting place for loads? have used the 7rm for years and a little more go is very interesting.

Ed

My approach when I built my first one was 7 MM Roy data. The Roy uses pressure and free bore to go the same places the Mashburn goes with a few grains more powder and a bigger case with no free bore. Max. is about 3250 with a 160 and 3100 with a 175. If you can't do it with those then get a .375 of some sort.