Thread: Old school hunting

Originally Posted by bumblefoot

Speaking of drooling.... K98s being packed up after WW2....

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@NIMROD Dad's old farming mags had the Valentine's surplus store ads on te back page. I used to drool at the ads for new/in grease Jungle carbines and M1 carbines for $26! Sorry for the old man "in my day" references!

I wonder how many of those Mausers ended up as Parker Hales or Midlands - jungle carbines- nice concept pity about the complete lack of accuracy -had a MI Carbine for awhile 30.cal particularly useless cartridge from my memory of it - but handy little rifle for pig hunting

Originally Posted by bumblefoot

Speaking of drooling.... K98s being packed up after WW2....

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@NIMROD Dad's old farming mags had the Valentine's surplus store ads on te back page. I used to drool at the ads for new/in grease Jungle carbines and M1 carbines for $26! Sorry for the old man "in my day" references!

That's a pretty famous picture from Sola airfield in Southern Norway.

None of those Rifles were exported whole to make sporters . Most were rebarreled in 3006 and some later in 308 but very few.. The Navy kept theirs in 7.92 but the Army,Airforce,Railways and Coastal Artilly got remarried ones. They were still in use up until the 80s in dome reserve units. They were sold out to service personal for about $10 each

Until about 2015 there were still a few thousand in a warehouse on the east coast,they could not be exported because of a ban on weapon exports. Its rumoured Frakonia Jakt bought them,broke them down and used the receivers for their hunting rifles.

Originally Posted by Ranger 888

What! No camo! No scope sight! No suppressor! No bipod! How did this clown manage to shoot a deer??

Was wondering the same thing. Wheres the rangefinder and gps. No drop chart taped to rifle not even a stock pack wheres the fancy coffee maker. Clearly a staged pic

Originally Posted by blip

Was wondering the same thing. Wheres the rangefinder and gps. No drop chart taped to rifle not even a stock pack wheres the fancy coffee maker. Clearly a staged pic

303's had a basic dial up open sight. So technically he probably did have a drop chart.

I started with a .44-40 lever action of my fathers, but my first rifle of my own was a sportered .303. The bore was so bad the bullets were spinning cartwheels and buzz sawing through whatever I hit with it. Always wondered what would have happened if a hit a deer with it. That didnt last long till I ditched it and got a fully-wooded one like in the photo, with a new barrel. It was a good rifle. I can still remember the ancient oil smell of it.

Originally Posted by 7mmwsm

303's had a basic dial up open sight. So technically he probably did have a drop chart.

More than likley he was proficient with the tool and chart was in his head

I'm glad the pic has tickled a few's fancy. It brings me bck to reading all those old early hunting books when I was a kid. Tales of carrying blankets and wearing army greatcoats up into the Alps. Rex Forrester books in the early culling days using 303's and living on venison, rice, salt, tea and having to soak army biscuits before they could eat them... I was born far too soft for those days!

the worst stuff was the dried egg powder - revolting stuff - really only good for baking - we used it to make pikelets on wet days -

Yep.... the Military Surplus stores were our best friend.

@Barry the hunter When I was at high school (76-79) we went on a few courses withnthe ATC to Ohakea. On one of them we were meant to do some range shooting, but they were working on it so no go... But I cn remember them showing us the armoury.... Hooooooly hell; racks of 303s and even some Brens.... Plus SLR's etc of course. But the 303s and Brens...... Even at that age they would have had to mop my drool from the floot.....

ahh yes - unlimited ammo to in some cases - shooting with the old Gisborne Rifle Club we had an annual shoot with the territorials - they would turn up in three or four I think they were K Model bedfords and we had a target shoot - us with our target .303 they used .308 SLR we used to soundly thrash them but lot of fun - but end of shoot they would haul out some Brens and stens and before the beers and BBQ we had some real fun - holy crap imagine that today be bloody court martial at least

1970 brochure

Originally Posted by bumblefoot

1970 brochure

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Greetings,
I see the Parker Hale Standard .303 listed at $36.00. I bought one about 1967 and it cost me $29.00 (fourteen pounds 10 shillings) with a new barrel. I could have saved $2.00 by getting one with a checked barrel. Note that the .222 and .308 rifles are a lot cheaper than others of the same make and model. Something to do with supporting CAC springs to mind. In 1970 or 71 a friend and I bought a 3 bedroom house to set up as a Flat. It cost $8,150.00 including chattels (whatever they were). It was a different time.
Regards Grandpamac.

Originally Posted by bumblefoot

1970 brochure

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I worked in Tisdals PNth after school and during the holidays when I was 15&16. 1963/64. Loved it.

This old geezer is still using the SMELE .303....still accurate ....mind you nowadays it makes a great walking stick...