bored as buggery

I was mustering on sunday for docking on the neighbours place and had a cock up on a steep face, went down like a sack of shit and dislocated my knee so im out of action for a while bored as buggery!
Woke up this morning and felt like letting some frustration out on the gongs, So I loaded up a few more bombs for the old 300 and cruised up to my range crutches and all.
Nothing fancy to report but for a factory gun it still amazes me how accurate it is if I do my part, even with 800plus rounds down the tube. I couldn't really get comfortable with my swollen bloody leg in a big brace but none the less she still gave me a good 5' group at 860 meters. Thought id share as im bored shitless with nothing better to do while all my neighbours and staff dock my lambs for me.
Cheers
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Good shooting under normal conditions, let alone with a buggered knee.

Fine shooting.

Cheers, I knew I cocked up the top right hand shot as soon as I squeezed off

I have trouble achieving that at 80m let alone 800m :-(
Now you know why I prefer Buckshot - aloud to use at match shooting ????? :yaeh am not durnk:

I hated Docking time - to stressful :-)
Spoke to cockies in weekend from Waikato/Kahwhia region - some have not started yet and might not do this year
Be a lot of slow fly clutching going on this summer

Haha practice mate.
Buckshot is good times!
It's been so wet here it's a hassle, done 11000 lbs still got 5 or 6000 to go lol

Slick shooting.

Are there any contract docking gangs around your area?
After I left your area to buy a farm of my own, for a couple of years I used to come back over to Paki-ra and Mangamahu to help muster for docking. Loved it. My best memories come from around there...except for trying to get lambs and ewes and weaned lambs through gateways blocked with a forrest of variegated thistles!

Us and all neighbours do 30000ish all round here. Yeap my staff are at pakira mustering and docking today. Haha yea they are a pain alright.
It's a bloody cool part of nz

Is that the cheek rest you were talking about?

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Is that the cheek rest you were talking about?

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Yeap that's the one

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Yeap that's the one

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Can understand why.
With the twinneedle ones you at least have a few additional ones, including at the back with tends to keep them in place pretty well.

Yea that's what I mean. Ive ordered one off them to try out

hey you think you are bored, 4.5 years since i came close ripping me 1/2 off. still havent shot anything bigger than a 12gu semi or a 22 . only finally got reasonable feeling in my right index finger
you were lucky
.....all of a sudden thinking of the monty python yorkshiremen sketch

should be arm 1/2 off

Shit that's no bloody good mate. At least you can still shoot though all the same

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Shit that's no bloody good mate. At least you can still shoot though all the same

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not really, my days were filled with dr's. physios and worst of all painkillers. till my body told me no more painkillers !
pain goes on, for those with a medial no how what was affected most was the brachial plexus nerves, a bunch of nerves that run from the spine out to the arm. anyways the arm came out 3-4" and when it sprung back (with a little help) the nerves stretched to hell and back.
to give you an idea what its like, my fingers go from numb-frost bite. and when i say numb i mean it. i have been n the kitchen thinking "whats that smell". its my hand on a hot element ( not the hot 5th element haha)
i was on so many painkillers i forgot what way was up in the middle of the night, fell over in the hallway and broke my ankle clean thru. never even noticed til the next day.
next issue is that being injured/ stoned on prescription drugs does evil things to the weight. so now on blood pressure meds.

ok, enough ranting from me!!
FFS people keep safe out there. because so far i am up to 15 broken bones, major burns to lower legs, crushed upper legs, eye injury, spinal injury and a whole lot more.
as for doctors well lets just say soe are good, some are amazing and some should never treat a patient ever again.

mmmmmmmmmmm Milla Jovovich

Holy hell I feel for you. That's rude! Bloody pills have a lot to answer for

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Cool area alright. One of my daughters worked on Mount View a couple of years ago.

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Oh true yea that's a nice block. I used to work on the fattening block for them ages ago. Digby is still up there

Yea my father in law managers the flat block. Digby is no relation though

Oh yeap good as gold I know Sarah. Unreal it's a small world alright, Hardcase. Yea I'm off to see trevor on Sunday. He's a hardcase old character aye, good man though

Great shooting Pongo12, sad to hear of your accident gonetropo

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Yeah I thought so. Sarah is my daughter. She worked out who you were from a couple of the pictures you posted on here. (a road sign in your garage behind a deer head).
Your father in laws brother Trevor managed a farm just around the road from my place back in the eighties. We did a bit of pig hunting together.

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Trevor's dad managed a block before my old man took over running it. I worked there myself for 6 years plus contract fenced on that place for a bit as well.


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Pongo 12 you make 800 plus yards look easy, very nice shooting, shame about the mishap on the farm, it will slow up the hunting for a bit. I suppose it could have been a lot worse at least you are still above the ground.

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Trevor's dad managed a block before my old man took over running it. I worked there myself for 6 years plus contract fenced on that place for a bit as well.


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Small old place alright mate

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Pongo 12 you make 800 plus yards look easy, very nice shooting, shame about the mishap on the farm, it will slow up the hunting for a bit. I suppose it could have been a lot worse at least you are still above the ground.

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Cheers mate. Yea bloody hassle alright. Freezer is full though and stags are growing fresh heads so not too bad timing haha. Yeap still alive which is the main thing

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.....all of a sudden thinking of the monty python yorkshiremen sketch

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Or the black knight?....... "just a flesh wound".......
Sorry couldn't help it but I guess if your a Monty python fan ......