Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Hunting Rifles MODEL 70s..Like Porsches, There Are No Substitutes

Well, except maybe for Browning Safari Grades and Weatherbys. Three rounds, 100 yards, 300gr Swift AFrame, 300gr Barnes Solid, 270gr Barnes TSX... And I've repeated this with 300gr Hornadys in the mix. Zero mods other than a Williams Extractor and trigger adjusted to 3.5. Buffalo @ 25 yards to a Kudu at over 350.

Oh, I dunno, I will take my Brno ZG-47 rifles over ANY other production hunting rifle ever made and this included my Dakota 76, re-worked by Ralf Martini, a couple of years ago.

I had several of these, have sold all but the pair of polished receiver factory 9.3x62s and the matching "carbine" in 7x57, the single nicest "factory" rifle I have ever owned out of about 150. This includes "as new" Mannlicher-Schoenauers, dozens of P-64-70s, early Browning Safaris in .30-06,.375H&H and .458WM and Sako Finnwolf,etc,etc.

I don't and never have cared for Weatherbys,love P-64-70s and the FN-badged sporters as well as Husqy FNs and HVAs, but, the Brnos are in a class of their own and only my original Oberndorf Type B, 9.3x62 is their equal.

That all said, the important thing is to have what YOU like and snjoy shooting most as this is all about "fun", anyway.

Nice when they shoot that way. Good for you.

Is that one in 375?

Yep 375.

Pretty good shooting for such a heavy trigger ("3.5") ....Care to show any pics of the rifle?..

And how she shot in 01...

The second group pic from 01 looks smaller. Either you or the rifle are getting rusty

Nice gun.

Terry

Both! thanks..

I like it. Like they say, "a picture is worth a thousand words". Very nice!!

Well, I suppose that's good enough for BIG game, but probably need to work those groups down a bit if you're going to hunt prairie dogs and such.

Good shootin' there!

I have the same rifle only it is stainless. It shoots just about like yours does. Can't wait to safarize it!!

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An old fashioned Remmy just for you jorge, just cause I know how much you love them!

Jorge,

Your analogy that the Porsche has no substitute made me remember the new Porsche I ordered in 1966. It was the 912 model and I paid extra for the 5 speed transmission. Stick shift was in back then.

It was a red coupe with the air cooled rear engine.



This car broke down at every chance. The first thing to fall apart was the shift lever. The ball at the operating end of the stick shift wore thru the cheap, ill designed stamping that held it to the floor. It came out of that socket in my late dad's driveway. It was in neutral and could not move.

After waiting forever for Porsche to find another part my dad who was a tool maker, welder etc. made a new part and welded it to the stamping and it worked perfectly. I still have that part here in our garage.

Then the 912's engine failed. It would not even turn over. The Porsche dealer had it towed and put a new engine in it under warranty.

Meanwhile I had bought a Chevy Impala sedan as I was working on the camp in VT and I wanted it's ability to 'truck' stuff.

The M70 Winchester is a good rifle. The Chevy was good. That Porsche was junk.

Have to save that one for posterity. My OP was a line out of a Tom Cruise movie, Risky Business, but never mind. It is a well know fact Porsches have an internal self-destruct mechanism for when they detect people that buy them that really are best off in a ChevyII or Dodge Dart they self destruct...

jorge: now you have confirmation from our contra-indicator.if Don says its junk, you know you are on to something good....

BINGO. I just never heard that about Porsches before. I don't doubt the man mind you, so the explanation has to lie elsewhere, as in my hypothesis for example

PS: helluva group out of that 700, their accuracy has never been in dispute...

Jorge, your seeing the light. Now if we could just get you to renounce Weatherby's!

First off, I think you guys all shoot way better than I can.

Kutenay...if you ever come across one of those BRNOs that you don't have the coin for or just don't need, give me a shout

Good shooting, Jorge. I had a couple Model 70s in .375 and I couldn't get them to shoot that well.

I finally got a couple of .416s and they shot better, but still not as well as your rifle.

I've since gotten rid of all of my "big" rifles and I'm content with .270/.280/.30-06s now.