Dear All, a collective reply, if you don't mind:

Daryl
• The 60 cm / 24 in banded barrel looks heavy but the rifle is not, only 3,450 kg unscoped. Similar rifles that I own weigh the same: FN Herstal (1957) in .375 H&H @ 3,7 kg and Mauser type A (1936) in 9,3x62 @ 3,550 kg. Even my .22 MAS 45 hunting rifle (http://forums.nitroexpress.com/showflat.php?Cat=0&Number=248326&page=0&fpart=5&vc=1 posted on 8 July 2019) weighs 3,4 kg!
• I can’t answer to your reloading question as I don’t reload – unfortunately, and only shoot RWS factory ammunition. Other European members such as Mouse in Slovenia (hunts with a 9,3x62), Lancaster and Kuduae in Germany and Joel Dorléac in France may answer.

Nitrox
• Yes, you know well Joël, the French rifle maker the world envies to the French!

Lars
• Thank you for your kind comments.

Louis