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Shooting Sports beat football.
In August Sport England published figures about
a number of sports practiced in the UK, using a
variety of criteria.
Shooting sports seems to have come of very
well in this survey, based on the feedback of
44,000 people aged from 14 upwards, who were
surveyed.
October was supposed to bring a more detailed
analysis of this survey, regarding the specific
sports. This is still being developed and we hope
to report on this in a future issue.
This is at least some good news that promotes
the idea of shooting sports as a safe and
valuable sport to be a part of.
The Sportsman Association has a lead on this
story at;
http://www.sportsmansassociation.
co.uk/?p=195
The full story can be found on the Sport
England website at; http://www.sportengland.
org/research/sport_satisfaction/headline_results.aspx
New Action from Kelbly Inc. – makers
of the famous Stolle
The Kelbly family have launched a new action called
the Atlas. The Atlas action is basically a Remington
700 clone made to benchrest standards – and with
Kelbly’s benchrest background, that’s no idle claim.
The action-body is made of 416RS stainless-steel.
Bolts are made of 4140 alloy steel on the body and
stainless-steel on bolt-handle. The Atlas action will
come standard as a single-shot with trigger-bracket
for Remington-style triggers, aluminum bolt-shroud
and cone bolt on the 222, PPC and 308 bolt-face
and a flat bolt on .532 magnum bolt-face, all with a
top safety cut-out.
The tenon thread is 1 1/16th x 18 tpi. and a
spacer-nut will be available to go on your old Stolle
barrels that will allow you to shoot your old barrel
on the Atlas action without re-chambering. Action
configurations are right bolt, right port or left bolt, left
port only. Priced at a very competitive $700.00 in the
USA but we’ll have to see what it costs when it gets
over here.
Several options will be available, like fluted bolt,
magazine, ejector, recoil-lug, Cera-Kote to action
body & bolt handle, polished finish etc. and is on
schedule for production at end of October 2009.
As many of you know the Kelbly actions are named
after bears – Panda, Grizzly etc. The Atlas bear was
the only native bear to the continent of Africa but is
now sadly extinct.
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