I'll stick some in my hand luggage when I come over for you :P
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40gr vmax does the job at 150
Reloading has it's rewards :)
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That is one buggered baby bunny.
Hitting at 150 yds ... Entry level.
Head shots come later ;)
Tim
Your dogs won't like you Kiwi39:D
Missed out on a deer, so had to settle for this on the way home. :thumbsup:
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And it is still down there by the look of ya dog Tahr;)
More friday arvo bliss ...
After testing this doe stuck her head up in the gully next to the range.
Tim
That was silly of it.
She might be a bit doey Kiwi39:yuush:
Went for a possum hunt tonight, something I haven't really targeted before. Managed four.
One was spotted climbing a tree so I sent a load of shot at what little I could see of it but nothing dropped. Kept looking up the tree and I see some eyes and fire another round and this little possum drops. We stood around discussing what fell to earth and we thought the possum looked a quite a bit bigger than that. Next thing we hear this rustling and mudgripz does a deft two step and the bigger one land right where he'd been standing.
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I must say this mirage ammo goes well on these critters at about 20m. I did find the tongue somewhere but nothing else of the head. Typical Aussies, no brains and all tongue. ;)
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Brilliant GM. Yep that's an Aussie for you.
Went for an evening/night shoot with my trusty old Ruger M77/.17HMR with MAE suppressor. I was interested to see how the Led Lenser P7 torch went with their new scope fitting. Summary - P7 just isn't quite long enough or intense enough compared to the M14. Also the zoom doesn't lock and it's easy to accidentally push it in and widen the light beam. The Led Lenser mounting bracket really is shit house! Whilst it's sturdy - it's a pain to clamp on the scope and torch. The worst thing about it is it's too high and bounces light off the end of the suppressor and back into the scope objective and destroys your vision. A waste of $37 and it will be a $1 TradeMe auction before you can say "blinded by the light".
I can't complain as I finished at 10pm with about 35 bunnies and possums ... both cats are already chewing the guts out of one of the bunnies ... what a fabulous evening. Photo shows the height problem of the Led Lenser Scope Mounting Bracket.
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I have a much smaller mount for my p7, it works well.
it has a mount for the scope and a little holder that gets fitted onto the torch
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Here my mount, works well though I put it under a shotgun barrel shooting goats at night and it fell off. It's good on the .22 though.
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Blimey, that out of a 223 or 204 Ruger (assume it's not 22-250).
I shoot a plover with a 40gr Vmax from my 223, and the bullet passed straight through the bugger at over 100 meters, had to chase it down and shoot it with my 22.
Then I've shot a rabbit with a 55gr soft point at under 50 meters, and the bullet didn't even escape the other side of it.
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You need one of these. From memory the mount is about £35 but its a great bit of kit. Google "nightmaster 800", if you want a gun mounted light they are the one to have.
here it is fitted. that is a small 4x32 scope.
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This is a very cheap way of mounting torches to scope mounts
Aluminum Alloy Bracket Mount with Hex Wrench for M16 Gun (25MM-Caliber) - Free Shipping - DealExtreme
Attach it to your scope, then just attach a gun mount to that with a torch in it. For under NZ $15 it is cheap and works well. I buy a few then only have to remove the gun mount to a different rifle which take a matter of seconds to take off and put back on.
6 rabbits, 11 possums and 5 hares. now to get the hares ready for the pot :D
A nice wee hall on Wednesday night! Shot with my Marlin 982vs .22mag, suppressed from GunWorks.
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Wow. I like the rifle