Holy crap!
Two and a half years ago I bought 1000 Fed LR primers for $90.
Six months ago they cost me $139.
Today I see them advertised for $199 (retail, not a TM price gouger)!
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Holy crap!
Two and a half years ago I bought 1000 Fed LR primers for $90.
Six months ago they cost me $139.
Today I see them advertised for $199 (retail, not a TM price gouger)!
Just got a call from gunworks, my box of 7mm 162g ELDX has arrived $90 odd bucks yipee
Yeah, I just picked up my 147gr ELD-M for $92 from them today.Quote:
Originally Posted by 7mm Rem Mag
They said only half of what they expected came
Got my box from workshop innovation and Robert said he only got two boxes.. tough times alrightQuote:
Originally Posted by 7mm Rem Mag
Yeah I think we were the lucky ones. Mine was $98 which is bloody good compared to what they are going for on trade me.Quote:
Originally Posted by stagstalker
My local had 147s for $113 their not the cheapest
Can remember the old Sika Show. Rock up and buy heaps of components. Needed arms like a gorilla to walk out with your purchases but is surely made the journey to Taupo worth while. But bad news Land Transport are mandating a 80km speed limit for the whole of Taupo road.It took them over 40 years to rectify their moronic decision to change the give way rule in 1974. You wonder what those clowns are on and do all day. FITH.
I don't get why they are making it 80kph.Quote:
Originally Posted by TeRei
The road from Tokoroa to Turangi is an excellent road, had heaps of work done to it over the years.
Other than the very narrow section after Taupo there is no reason for that road not to be 100kph.
This country is going to shit slowly but surely.
Quote:
Originally Posted by Beetroot
Money and the saving of it, very few of these reduced speed limits that are coming in all around the place are about safety. It's about the lack of investment in our roads which is making them unsafe. They don't have the money to maintain the roads at the current speed limit so its cheaper and easier to just reduce it.
The cambers and road layout between SH1 you mention might be correct, but the surface is far substandard and thats coming as a truckie doing up to 40 runs a week on that section of roadQuote:
Originally Posted by Beetroot
SH3 down to the Naki is the same its rattle shake bang and roll.
the pressure waves are the worst, potholes filled with hot or cold mix so they blend in the dark/shadows and when hit they will just heave a 50ton unit over the road.
some of the are so bad we P1 message them
Snap!, lack of maintenance.
We'd all like more maintenance on our roads.
How would you like to fund that?
Increased fuel taxes and increased RUC?
Increased PAYE or increased property rates?
@striker's comments suggest that the damage is caused by heavier vehicle traffic. Should they pay higher RUC which will be passed onto consumers?
Remember EVs aren't paying RUC (at present) and don't pay fuel taxes.
We're often quick to identify the problem, slower to help fund the cure.
Its not the pavement thats the problem. Its gonna fail sure as night follows day, cause the road transport lobby got govt to permit trucks to go to 55Tonne, instead of remain at 44 tonne.
Our roading design post WWII has never factored in 55 tonne combined weights. So the sub base, base course and top course are not suficiently strong enough to resist deformation from those heavy axles being passed down through the pavement.
They closed the Desert road a year ago during the nights, to apply magic asphaltic concrete pavements, but did bugger all to the undedrlying base course: result, fucked sections of new pavement in under six months. Roads weeping water cause they never addressed the base issue. Old roading engineers maxum "Dirt plus water = mud".
One 'H' rated truck and trailer does as much damage as 8000 passes of a 1500kg car. And thats only to the pavement. cars don't have any meaningful impact on Basecourse structures. Trucks do.
the heavier units do less damage, higher productivity for less trips, more axles at the same or lower weigh per axle that a 46ton general access truck weighs. and we pay thru the nose for it too.Quote:
Originally Posted by Cyclops
you really need to follow the funding, and where it ends up, the current cost of RUC and fuel excise is more than enough to fund world class roads.
especially when it goes in to the national land transport fund and pays for competing rail, cycle ways at say 1mil per km, the new ferries come under too so Im told as they are considered SH1
https://www.nzta.govt.nz/planning-an...bout-the-nltp/
Might as well get used to it, there is less and less drivers coming thru the system, long hours, shit pay, lack of appreciation are all things turning guys and gals away from the industry.Quote:
Originally Posted by XR500
I was talking to one of the nzta hpmv engineers at fielddays and they are/were processing permits to run up to 25m long and 72ton
I do know where the funding is from and where it goes.Quote:
Originally Posted by striker
I'm an elected councilor and have served on our Regional Land Transport Committee.
I can show you roads that deteriorate daily during the dairy season due to HPV milk tankers that don't get worse through the winter.
HPV heavy transport vehicles are visibly damaging roads that were never built for them, but have been approved for them.
I disagree that the rate of fuel excise and RUC is enough to fund our roading network. It isn't and it is reducing in proportion to the costs.
I know what it costs our council to fund our share of our local roading costs.
As a council we put in extra ratepayer funds above what receive a FAR rate for from Waka Kotahi (NZTA) to try to keep up with the maintenance.
More funding is required. Where should it come from?
General taxation, paye & business taxes, ratepayers or increased RUC?
Simple solutions:Quote:
Originally Posted by Cyclops
#1 tax us more, via any taxation method, general pop whinges moans about cost when it gets passed on, and it will be passed on.
#2 we all go back to the so called magical 44 ton, more truck trips for less productivity, more emissions, we pay less RUC (win for truckies) and the gen pop then complains about how many more trucks are on the road than before to do the same job,
gen pop then complains how long it takes to get something delivered as lack of capacity and lack of drivers to do the job
Overnight delivery, Good luck try next week or month.
Was hunting the Kaimanawas last week. Looking down on the Desert road at 11pm: a solid line of Heavy good vehicles sidelights going north AND south. Solution: rail. And get used to stuff turning up in a few days, not overnight. Plan for it and its not an imposition.
And in other news there's a component shortage. Head on over to the off topic section lads:thumbsup:
I know and I has just done the unthinkable..............brought a 308, so at least I can keep shooting at reasonable cost until all my 6.5 projectiles on order arrive.Quote:
Originally Posted by charliehorse
Thinking about doing the same thing @mikee. Sell the 7mm08 and go back to a 308 alot more factory ammo on the shelf.
Am actually surprised there aren't a lot more guns for sale due to lack of ammo and reloading components
Our roads are built poorly from the begining, lack of maintenance isn't the problem.Quote:
Originally Posted by Got-ya
When the Waikato expressway between Hampton downs and Te Kauwhata was in construction they opened up a newly completed section to traffic to start working on the other side, literally the first day it was opened pot holes occured everywhere (passed 3 cars that where changing tyres) and a whole big enough to swallow a car popped up.
I've seen countless road work sights that haven't even been sealed yet where potholes are popping up, even when the public isn't allowed to drive on it.
I've seen first hand a council project that blew the budget massively due to the incompetence of consultants they paid to do their job and there be absolutely no re-course for those people and a massive cost to the rate payer.
Like everything we plebs pay through the nose for everything, get a crap product or service, and have to be thankful for the experience.
Sitting in their cellars waiting for the apocalypse, they'll not feel burned for a long time.Quote:
Originally Posted by caberslash
Well done @mikee,Quote:
Originally Posted by mikee
I already had a .308 (actually 4 if you count a couple of old target rifles). My current stocks of projectiles for my 6.5 are meagre but plentiful for the .308. Ditto powder. We should all own at least one .308 although I suppose a .30-06 would do in a pinch. Easy to load and shoots almost any projectile well. In case you are wondering my 4 are staying exactly where they are.
Regards Grandpamac.
@Beetroot As an aside... I was talking to the Chinese owner of the chip shop the other day and he said that in China the company making/repairing a road has to stand guarantee for it for three years at least. He reckoned that is one reason why the roads are good. I'd say CCP would ensure that guarantee was enforced! ;)Quote:
Originally Posted by Beetroot
Well @grandpamac 308 is my 3rd 30calQuote:
Originally Posted by grandpamac
My 6.5TCU and SAUM are currently out of projectiles pretty much so needed something to shoot lots and often hence the 308
Easy. Stop diverting funds from fuel tax etc to other areasQuote:
Originally Posted by Cyclops
Examples of diversions?Quote:
Originally Posted by Danger Mouse
Understand for many moons fuel, RUC and other associated taxes went into the consolidated fund, then redistributed from there to what was decided to be a worthy cause. Roading wasn't the only receiver.Quote:
Originally Posted by Cyclops
It hasn't been that way for some time. What happened sometime in the past isn't indicative of what happens today.Quote:
Originally Posted by tetawa
Funds are not diverted today. The line is How land transport is funded.
How you pay for land transport
All vehicles travelling on public roads contribute to the building, maintenance and operation of our land transport system by:
paying PED or RUC
being registered
paying the licence fee, often called ‘rego’, at least annually.
Some vehicles contribute to specific roads by paying tolls. All fare-paying passengers on public transport contribute to the operation of public transport services.
The cost of building and maintaining local roads is shared between central government, through Waka Kotahi NZ Transport Agency, and local councils. Councils contribute to the cost of their land transport activities from rates and borrowing, in what is known as the ‘local share’. The cost of public transport, and walking and cycling facilities is also shared but state highways and road policing are entirely funded by Waka Kotahi NZ Transport Agency.
From time to time the Government decides to fund projects which are unable or unsuitable to be funded by charges to vehicle owners. For these, the Crown is able to direct additional funds through its usual budget processes.
maybe we should ask for the Chinamen to send us some reloading components???? they can start with container or three of the 55grn norinco FMJ projectiles please.Quote:
Originally Posted by bumblefoot
Greetings Cyclops and all,Quote:
Originally Posted by Cyclops
Thanks for that bit of info. I was not aware that there was a National Land Transport Fund but there you are. I do remember, many moons ago, that there was a road fund and there was a big fuss when it was abolished and the dosh went into the consolidated fund. Keith Holyoake (National) was the PM at the time. Things do go around in circles.
GPM.
In Argentina we are used to the scarcity of inputs. To complete, the gunpowder import company is handled by criminals, they buy gunpowder in bulk and divide it and put anything ... Years ago they brought and fractionated IMR and at the same time the gunpowder was decomposing ... terrified. For my part, I use gunpowder from military manufactures in my country, A19, which is what they use to load the 50 calibers ... it gives me good results in the .338
Any update on the Xmas shipment of Adi powders?
Last I heard I had been left on a dock in the US? But the updates have gone quiet
Posted on Steves Wholesale FB last night
"ADI Gunpowder...our container has arrived off Auckland on the 8th January...and the ship is still waiting to dock. The latest update is the 4th February to unload. Sometime after that we will start delivery trips around NZ.
It's interesting that this useless government is assuring everyone that they are working closely with supply lines to keep goods flowing! That's just another blatant lie when ships can't dock now way before things really hit the fan.
It's no wonder shipping lines are avoiding NZ.
Steve"
Its not just an issue at NZ ports its world wide. Apparently there is some sort of virus that is slowing things down.
I guess under the current situation there does need to be some prioritisation. Medical supplies, food, or gun powder? I wonder what percentage of NZers would rate the landing and distribution of gun powder as being important. Its contextual. Tough on small businesses like Steve's but hardly the end of the world.Quote:
Originally Posted by Grasshoppa
From what i have witnessed. There are no priorities or queue jumping its just the mess of coping with the covid compliance (necessary) combined with general shortage of stuff including shipping lines /capacity to nz) and fact that inefficient public services like customs and mpi etc are even less efficient than usual
Yes, but under this govt gunpowder isn't classed as goods, it's "bads" :PQuote:
Originally Posted by Grasshoppa