The Mauser 77 was probably the best rear locking modern bolt action to appear in the seventies and eighties period when manufacturers were trying to "modernize" their bolt action rifles with moves to push feed as opposed to controlled feed actions. In Europe there seemed to be a concerted effort to move away from the ...

The Mauser 66 is one of the most interesting rifles ever designed and manufactured. They were a product of intelligent design and top quality German engineering melded together in a rifle that, arguably, should have been rather more popular than it was. The first thing that struck me when I was first privileged to handle ...

(This post was updated with additional information on 13th April 2015) I was born and grew up in London, England and developed a passion for rifles at a young age. So there were times when my poor long suffering father would take me to Thomas Bland and Sons shop at 4-5 William IV Street, just off ...