2013 Hangawera Station Sniper shoot

Early this morning people started turning up on the station just out of Gordington to attend the 2013 Hangawera station sniper shoot .This shoot has been running for many years now with the event organizer Harry Hoover "mountain safety officer " and the most winning-est shooter of the Charles Upham military rifle shoot ever 4 xin a row !
Harrys event is a great day with many coming from around the country and as far from as Australia .

The event always starts out with the full contingent listing to Harry outline the shoot and first and foremost the safety procedures -never ever had an accident and long may it last .

Several forum members regularly attend this shoot and myself included -I was there to defend my last years title of "I beat rest of ya "! Sadly I turned up unorganized -and I knew and proceeded top get caned good and proper !!!!lol
Hillary , Harrys wife and a former world champion millatary rifle shooter was organizing the scoring with a group of spotters .Hillary also organized a packed lunch and drinks for all shooters which makes life so easy .


Gillie was the first shooter on the blocks and it was wonderful to watch another former winner of this event totally screw up having read his dope incorrectly and with me spotting for him pepper the surrounding area at 500 yards --that was him stuffed .
Gille this time bought his very lovely partner along who I might add does not have a license and under Gillies direction proceeded to fire winning shots to his embarrassment I am sure --after the point are added up to mine also I am sure .Dirty Old Matt Ryan who loves to watch me squirm as my shots go some where they shouldn't was on pretty good form before I left especially at the longs being 1100 yards onto a ten inch disk .Matt regularly shoots a savage 338LM and shoots it with plenty of skill , he has also just won the Charles Upham belt this past January a goal he has been investing in for some time which has finally paid off .Thats me -two shots in the red shirt

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OK El B this is a fair public warning that the next time I see you I am going to twist your nipples. No hand shake, no niceties just pain. Shoulda told me. Too late now.

Looks like there is some pretty expensive rigs there.

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Originally Posted by Rushy

OK El B this is a fair public warning that the next time I see you I am going to twist your nipples. No hand shake, no niceties just pain. Shoulda told me. Too late now.

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this isnt the Muriwai one Rushy its down south

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Originally Posted by Wirehunt

Looks like there is some pretty expensive rigs there.

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sure is -rifles with scopes upto 15k spotting scope that member Cfarr has 5k doesn't mean you ll win but great to use

There's some mouth watering toys there man.:thumbsup:

Tell your mates they have a parasite on one of their S&Bs. Looks like a fucking ugly BORS might have infested it.

i dont here good things about those things

Whoa someone actually bought a BORS hah


Slick jorts

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Originally Posted by el borracho

this isnt the Muriwai one Rushy its down south

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Doesn't matter. You gotta feel the burn.

bit kinky there Rushy:o

Matt Ryan Winner -2nd Christian Neubauer --3rd Jo -a lady !go girl

Man that black dot on your camera must get on your nerves haha

good spottin!and yes it does

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Originally Posted by el borracho

Gillie was the first shooter on the blocks and it was wonderful to watch another former winner of this event totally screw up having read his dope incorrectly and with me spotting for him pepper the surrounding area at 500 yards --that was him stuffed .
Gille this time bought his very lovely partner along who I might add does not have a license and under Gillies direction proceeded to fire winning shots to his embarrassment I am sure --after the point are added up to mine also I am sure .

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Thanks for the support... it is much appreciated. This would have to be the first time i have ever miss read Norways drop chart format... and as such i never queried the value i had dialed. My mistake, not the dope's, the scope's or the gun's. I am certainly not proud of the very poor shooting on my part but i did come away with a result i am proud of. I equiped, set up and coached my partner to well deserved 6th place overall (from 23 shooters) in her first ever long range event. I was certainly not embarressed that she well and truely beat me, I was embarressed about my own shooting though. She had an awesome time and is mad keen to go back next year.

Dont worry Gillie there was more than one ego crushed on Saturday LOL Who won the jungle lane?

Haven't heard the Jungle Lane results. The jungle lane was hard though... after 6 or so shooters having gone through there were still targets that hadn't been shot cause nobody (including the RO) even saw them.

It was great catching up with a few people. I discussed a couple of shoots i have coming up with some people there and picked up some really great ideas.

What, no enfields, mosins or mausers etc sporting mighty 4x fixed power scopes.:omg:

this year there were none of the old bangers

Ah well maybe next time, would be nice to see some WW2 bangers in action. Going to shoot this old girl next weekend hopefully, 1937 vintage.Attachment 7063

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Originally Posted by kiwijames

Tell your mates they have a parasite on one of their S&Bs. Looks like a fucking ugly BORS might have infested it.

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Yes it just sits there looking ugly, - but (correctly programmed) is always right on the money. I use a Kestrel 4500 (for windage) and it always agrees with ugly old Boris

Point at the target (any angle), turn the elevation until the range reading is correct and focus on the taking the shot using that marksmanny stuff...

Works in the pouring hard rain, adjusts for cosine & environment on the fly

AND you want it to look pretty?

:wtfsmilie:

Yep on top of that semi...super fast! (and accurate). Now if they could just build a wind meter into it...

Some great pics there El B well done guys:cool: Wash that lense aye that bloody dot:yaeh am not durnk:

Shooters in shorts and t-shirts... just doesn't happen here :bouaaaaah:
Three wool sweaters plus down jacket today...

Is it the BORS or IEA ballistic computer? If it works well, my bet is the IEA BC01...

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Originally Posted by Mere Simpleton

Yes it just sits there looking ugly, - but (correctly programmed) is always right on the money. I use a Kestrel 4500 (for windage) and it always agrees with ugly old Boris

Point at the target (any angle), turn the elevation until the range reading is correct and focus on the taking the shot using that marksmanny stuff...

Works in the pouring hard rain, adjusts for cosine & environment on the fly

AND you want it to look pretty?

:wtfsmilie:

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I purchased a Bors several years ago and it's installed on a NF scope & 300wm, bloody brilliant, so much so I got another one and fitted it on an identical scope but on another 300wm.
I don't reload personally but have someone do it for me, both rifles have seperate reloads. Only thing I need to figure out is windage.
Both bought on the interweb from the US at half of what they were selling for here at the time.

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Shooters in shorts and t-shirts... just doesn't happen here :bouaaaaah:
Three wool sweaters plus down jacket today...

Is it the BORS or IEA ballistic computer? If it works well, my bet is the IEA BC01...

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The BC01 is similar and has the advantage of using G1, G7 BC data, Its windage function allows you to enter windage & direction and it tells you what the windage turrett should be turned too and offsets the elevation for Earth rotational, magnus etc.

Remember all of the calculations are done by the computer software; what is downloaded into the hardened unit is simply multiple drop tables for each firearm and the enviromental variations/pitch angle offset the table you are using at the time. I haven't seen the BC01 software to comment - hopefully it doesn't just come in German?

The Barrett software is good but does not support multiple BCs in the current version; although its data format does allow the droplist to be edited with a Hex Editor before downloading if you want to operate in the post transonic zones. If you are not that geeky then create two gun profiles - I used to use for the little Grendel one up to 800m (BC=.570) and one 800-1200m (BC=520) and just quickly switch between them. The 100m zero is retained for each gun profile, so with a good QD mount (Recknagle) I can move the whole thing quickly to the .338 and select its BORS profile without loss of zero, so no need to buy multiple optics for each gun.

One additional factor to consider, although not even mentioned by Barrett is that the electronics are housed in a double faraday enclosure - so you have good EMP protection (if you worry about those things). :ORLY:

It also says "BARRETT" on it - which is always a good thing...

Couple of pictures of my partner shooting the jungle lane event with a borrowed AR

Thats a mean looking girly rifle:D

Matt Ryan won the Jungle lane, after Range officering all but one shooter all day he was the last shooter, with a time of 5.00 minutes and No penalties. Awesome. Course he knew where all the targets were by then.

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Matt Ryan won the Jungle lane, after Range officering all but one shooter all day he was the last shooter, with a time of 5.00 minutes and No penalties. Awesome. Course he knew where all the targets were by then.

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hhahha the rotter eh!

How often do people shoot there? Only when there is a big organised shoot?
I've got a mate who lives not far from Morrinsville (where I'm from) who has built himself a 284win and would love a place like this to shoot.

Get in touch with Harry that runs the shoot , the area is used thru out the yr , as its a working farm , it has to work in around the farm manager etc , if Harry has your email and interest , then he usually sends a email to all before a practice weekend shoot etc .

Later Chris

Someone has a nice JP rifle there. Any advise on how to get them out of the states?

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Someone has a nice JP rifle there. Any advise on how to get them out of the states?

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I brought in two JP's about 3 years ago. Get the import permits first through your local AO. Get dsp-83 end user declaration, export application and rifle specs/order form from an exporter stateside. I used these guys. Fellas name was Al Hancq. They'll tell you what to fill out and send back to them with a non-refundable fee for the application. If the state dept approves your purchase and export, you send a deposit and they order the rifle. When it's ready, you send the balance including shipping and they send the rifle.

Whole process was completed and I got the rifles in about 12 weeks.

Awesome. Thanks for the help. been looking at them for a while now and shot one in the states 6 months ago. amazing weapons.

I just noticed this image of me has me looking like Ive got some sort of Mohawk mullet. :wtfsmilie:Looking back at the images I shot I remember what a great time we have at these event and the super effort Harry and his team go to to put an event on for all n sundry

I was going to be a cheeky bugger and say something but .... I got nothing.

perfection Rushy is often hard to knock !;)