(This post was updated with additional information on 10th April 2015.) The 7×64 Brenneke has a history of being one of, if not the most popular sporting rifle cartridge in Europe; similar to the status of…
The 7×64 Brenneke
The 9.3×64 Brenneke, Germany’s answer to the 375 Holland and Holland Magnum
(Note: This post was updated with additional information on 7th April 2015). The 9.3x64mm Brenneke is, in my mind at least, one of the top two cartridges for the “one rifle world wide hunter”. There are…
The Mannlicher Schönauer M72
(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…
The 6.5×68 Schuler
(This post updated with reloading data from Hodgdon and Australia Defence Industries (see end of post) on 9th December 2015 and with data from RWS on 11th December 2015). The 6.5×68 Schuler is one of the…
Holland and Holland, Where Art Meets Perfection
My real interest in firearms is not in the latest and supposedly best military or police weapons. What really grabs my imagination are the firearms that move from being mere functional objects into the realm where…
Hunting Riflescopes by Schmidt and Bender – Part 3
In this last installment of our Schmidt and Bender rifle-scopes trilogy we will look at the Classic series of traditional rifle-scopes. The Classic series (or Klassik in German) are the older Schmidt and Bender design that…
