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As Barry says, just carry the usual. For me includes rain poncho, muesli bars, oxo cubes.

Wet as fk out this morning, goats mostly seeking shelter under windfall’s, overhangs etc out of wind. Reasonable hunting but staying dry isn’t an option. For some reason phone reception is coming and...

Spent 46 years hunting so far. Sometimes as a team of two but still hunting separately for two or three days or so. Rest of time mostly hunt solo. Doesn’t matter if you’re hunting solo or as a team,...

Used a couple of packets of 308. Kills as good as anything else out there. Needed slight sight adjustment but that’s not unusual. Used on a few goats and pigs but mostly deer. Last animal shot was a...

Have lost count of the number of deer neck-shot with either 222 or 223 over the years. As others have stated, you need to be reasonably competent to pull off a good neck shot, doesn’t matter what...

Got a model 70 Winchester 308. Was 22”, got it shortened to 18” and suppressor fitted. Wish I’d never done it! Handling and balance all fucked up now. Still a good rifle, just not as good as...

Wouldn’t use it on reels, leaves a semi-hard residue. We use it on sxs’s and 4wheelers to seal frame, engine etc when selling new onto dairy farms or saltwater environments. Have used it on firearms...

Just used G1 BC as they were readily at hand. There’s lots of literature out there on subject. Don’t really follow the subject too much these days but it’s an interesting subject. The following link...

“Speer is also famous for publishing completely fake BCs.”

Can’t see what you’re on about. .308. 180gr btsp. Speer & StrelokPro list bc @ .540. AB list bc @ .545. Various other sources list @...

WARO generally targets the bigger animals if they can. Less air time per kg of meat recovered. Simple law of economics.

“270 generally are relatively inefficient and have larger recoil. With the lighter bullets might be fine though.”

Has worked perfectly fine all over the world since since it was introduced. Jack...

Hopefully the link below works, but yes, there are plenty of WARO Concessions in place/active. Mostly South Island. Just a matter of if it's profitable to do at the moment is debatable.
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-BW- Doesn't look like normal case head separation there. Looks like it's blown at the extractor rim. Over pressure load ? Whatever, lucky shooter not to get seriously hurt.

As JohnDuxbury said, no big deal. Years ago I acquired a Parker Hale rifle in 308 off one of dads mates. Came with a heap of reloaded ammo. Had a 3 case head separations while I had that rifle and 2...

Interesting video. Doesn’t show great shooting skills but he has to be better than that or as a marine he would never have passed annual qualifying standard for basic marksmanship. As Tentman alluded...

Get your feet used to wearing boots for a start, then brand/style of sock you wear doesn’t matter so much. Can only remember getting blisters once in about last 28 years. Mind you I wear boots pretty...

In a previous suppressor thread on here I noted that none of the one piece suppressors fitted to three ARs were ever cleaned, 2x Gunworks and 1x Waitaki Engineering, and they were all working fine...

Good on you. I’ve posted on here before about being on the receiving end of firearms on more than one occasion. Been lucky and survived, still carry some lead around in the body. Hasn’t put me off...

Obviously not done much hunting anywhere that gets busy. Had it happen a few times over the years, both in huts and tent camps in plain sight. Don’t get my gruts in a knot over it. Remember, always...

Your problem with this being? apart from five shots for one animal.

On my AR I used to swap between day scope and thermal regularly, at least once a week, with no zeroing issues. Regular scope rings, not QD. Thermal had own mounts for rail. Now use a dedicated...

Fking spellcheck. Last sentence was meant to read rigor mortis.

Last few weeks haven’t even bothered recovering any pigs that weren’t real handy to truck on hot days. About a month ago shot two nice pigs. Gutted both, hung one in shade and carried other one out...

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As others have hinted at, get ‘match’ fit and get used to carrying the rifle as it is. My ‘every day shooter’, a 223, weighs 4kg. From time to time I think about lighter rifles but other times quite...