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    Quote Originally Posted by bumblefoot View Post
    New Desert cam goretex jackets for $99. Primo bits of kit

    https://www.armyandoutdoors.co.nz/co...ert-mvp-jacket
    @bumblefoot cheers just ordered one
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    Quote Originally Posted by ChrisW View Post
    @bumblefoot cheers just ordered one
    This is what I wear. I carry it in my pack rolled up tight and get it out when it starts to bucket down. Well worth getting the brand-new unissued ones as they are completely waterproof. The used ones that are slightly cheaper can be a bit iffy.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Flyblown View Post
    This is what I wear. I carry it in my pack rolled up tight and get it out when it starts to bucket down. Well worth getting the brand-new unissued ones as they are completely waterproof. The used ones that are slightly cheaper can be a bit iffy.
    Thanks, yea ordered a new one for $99. Seems like a bargain
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    I normally do my research before I buy, so all that I have to share is a list of items that are other wise fairly cheap but performs very well given their price.

    * Convoy Torch, SST40, $40, super bright, very good battery life running a single 217100.
    * 30mm rings with 30 MOA slop, $30, so far so good.
    * ultra low and lightweight 11mm->20mm rail, $7. This thing allowed mounting of the above 30moa rings to an Anschutz, now I can reach to 250m. The alternative is to buy a one piece rail and drill holes and screw onto the Annie's receiver.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Ultimitsu View Post
    I normally do my research before I buy, so all that I have to share is a list of items that are other wise fairly cheap but performs very well given their price.

    * Convoy Torch, SST40, $40, super bright, very good battery life running a single 217100.
    * 30mm rings with 30 MOA slop, $30, so far so good.
    * ultra low and lightweight 11mm->20mm rail, $7. This thing allowed mounting of the above 30moa rings to an Anschutz, now I can reach to 250m. The alternative is to buy a one piece rail and drill holes and screw onto the Annie's receiver.
    What about the 'scopes you imported and tried. Have they prevailed?
    Im thinking that since you talked about them Chinese made 'scopes have made a big leap forward and US brands are having scopes made in China. . Worth another try? You, not me.

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    Everything I have purchased from @Sarvo
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    Quote Originally Posted by Tahr View Post
    What about the 'scopes you imported and tried. Have they prevailed?
    Im thinking that since you talked about them Chinese made 'scopes have made a big leap forward and US brands are having scopes made in China. . Worth another try? You, not me.
    Yeah, so I got quite a few. By and large they work well , but my overall assessment is that they are not "Cheap gear that surprises you".

    Some observations -

    * They are generally feature packed for their price - lockable turrets, dotted/marked reticles (more on this later), side focus, fairly good adjustment range (~70MOA, or 25+ MIL), magnification throw lever, scope cover (sometimes aluminium ones), sunshade, Mil/mil, illuminated crosshair/dot etc.
    * For their price, they often have good optical quality. They use the same glass as other Made in China big brand scopes.
    * But, some tend to over-stretch their optical limit. I have a 2-20x44 Mil FFP, the image quality is quite good up to 10x, goes down some what after that, then gets decidedly worse between 16-20. I use it under 14x. As a 2-14 powered scope, it is fairly good.
    * They copy dotted/marked reticles from well known brands, but almost always get the ratio wrong. You would think that the markings should be whole numbers of MIL or MOA, but they are not. The two which I was offered to review, one is a 2-16x44 MOA SFP, in my review I explained that each marking is in fact 0.6 and 1.2MOA at maximum magnification instead of 1 or 2 MOA as you would expect. The other scope is a 5-20x50 MIL FFP, the markings are not 1mil apart, but 0.8 mil apart. The most recent one I received is a 4-16x42 Mil FFP, it seems to have good glass but the markings are 0.6 mil apart instead of 1 mil. So you need to remember of these odd ratios and put them into your calculation for ranging and hold over.
    * Their reticles tend to be too fine, this makes twilight hunting somewhat difficult. The 4-16x42 is a particularly bad offender, at 4x the reticle is so small and so fine it is very hard to see even in a bright day. They are usually OK when you have a torch and hunt at night. This and the above problem, I think, is the result of these manufactures not being able to test their scope and have no real life use experience with them. To be honest the reticle issues are the biggest reason I think they fail to live up to their potential. It is not a hard thing, and does not cost more money, to get right.
    * Adjustments are relatively accurate, but not perfect. The most common error is when you make vertical adjustments there is a small amount of horizontal shift. ​Then again, you would not expect any sub-$1500 scope to be perfect anyway. A lot of people report Leupold Mark 4, VX5HD and VX6's adjustments are not accurate. the 5-20 Mil FFP I mentioned earlier seems to have very close to perfect adjustment.

    I shoot a lot of 22LR, so I prefer spending under 400 dollars on scopes with these features than a big brand scope with 3-9 magnification, plaint duplex, and has no side focus (or any focus), or cannot focus under 25 meters (all Leupolds except for EFR models cannot focus under 50 meters). But make no mistake warranty is a big issue. if you use your rifles rough stick to big brands.

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    Quote Originally Posted by veitnamcam View Post
    Everything I have purchased from @Sarvo
    Exactly. His politics so suck , but he has good shit.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Tahr View Post
    Exactly. His politics so suck , but he has good shit.
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    Quote Originally Posted by JessicaChen View Post
    When my dad went to sweden for a business trip, he picked me up a few morakniv knives. Apparently some of these knives are incredibly cheap there, abuot 10 euros. I think here they cost 30 nzd+ which is not bad. I really like them.
    I have also been pleased with the cheap headlamps from aliexpress, the one with three lamps that looks like this https://www.aliexpress.com/item/32864262963.html. One of them that was almost a decade old has finally died, costed less than 20 nzd including batteries and shipping. Has served me well doing bunny shooting at night even in the rain. Looking to get another one with red or green LEDs since the bunnies are getting lamp-shy.
    mora=bacho they are pretty much one and the same.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Flyblown View Post
    This is what I wear. I carry it in my pack rolled up tight and get it out when it starts to bucket down. Well worth getting the brand-new unissued ones as they are completely waterproof. The used ones that are slightly cheaper can be a bit iffy.
    Hey @Flyblown how quiet are these jackets ?

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    Pretty average. I don’t wear them when stalking, only when it’s really pissing down.
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    I bought this Cree C8 torch 5 years ago and it's great. It uses a 18650 battery and powerful enough for spotlighting possums and rabbits https://www.fasttech.com/p/3398408

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    Quote Originally Posted by bumblefoot View Post
    @Phil_H George Henry often have them for about $11 ea

    https://www.georgehenry.co.nz/shop/C...n+Holster.html
    Now go down to Bunnings and get them to beat it by 10%
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    Quote Originally Posted by Phil_H View Post
    Except they don't appears to have the Bahco knives listed on there site.

    Cheers
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    Dunno about the knives but miter ten do Bahco.

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