Out for a walk without the rifle, indicated this one from 10m away, heaps of goats around so lots of scent winds all day. Happy with her steadness, not so happy with her range, constant reminding...
Liked On: 22-07-2023, 08:57 PM
All things precision have come a long way over the last 30 years . Tolerances and consistency in machining and manufacture have improved dramatically and we can see that in our own little neck of the...
Liked On: 21-07-2023, 08:14 PM
Greetings All, It is a cold wet day here in HB so I thought I would tap out a few thoughts over handloading that have been running around in my head. In The Beginning, well fifty years ago. In...
Liked On: 21-07-2023, 02:18 PM
Hi Gents, I thought I would be somewhat greedy and create another wildcat thread, this specifically for the progress of my wildcat mostly from the reloading aspect, as I am currently up to the load...
Liked On: 20-07-2023, 08:43 PM
I to find the lasers pretty hopeless. In both the gun shops I've worked in we've used a collimator and had pretty good results. At home I typically just look down the bore and line it up with...
Liked On: 18-07-2023, 08:23 PM
Ha, that reminds me of... The time me mate was heading home on his bike in the sticks out of Napier. Comes around the corner, sees oldmate possum wandering down the side of the road - no time to...
Liked On: 18-07-2023, 12:26 PM
Left the hut and ran across a little pig within 500m. Dropped him and dragged him back to the meat safe 229128 Then carried on up the hill, and found a Sika hind 229130 Carrying that out,...
Liked On: 17-07-2023, 08:51 PM
229126 Updater 18 months on - He's a natural.
Liked On: 17-07-2023, 08:49 PM
Short action, woopy-fking-do. People get on this short action crusade to save weight and/or get questionably faster reloading time. Out in the real world you hardly notice either. When it comes to...
Liked On: 16-07-2023, 10:01 PM
Few years ago we had a couple sitting in a cabbage tree overlooking our yard with the outside lights shining. There were heaps of puriri attracted by the lights and the moreporks were having a great...
Liked On: 15-07-2023, 01:41 PM
0430 is an early wake up compared to most of my winter hunts but today I was taking my son Ryan on a tahr hunt and wanted to be well up the hill as the darkness evolved into daylight. 228945 ...
Liked On: 15-07-2023, 01:36 PM
40+ years ago hunting on a cobbers place in Lee's Valley. We'd chased a roaring stag around at the very head of a spur but he eluded us as dark fell. So we were pretty hyped up. The spur was...
Liked On: 14-07-2023, 11:19 PM
https://i.ibb.co/mccVM21/IMG-20230710-205431.jpg (https://ibb.co/P66vfP3) upload pic (https://imgbb.com/) 9.3 Mauser A Husqvarna 1640 in 9.3x62 in a custom stock. Ebony foreend and gripcap....
Liked On: 10-07-2023, 11:09 PM
Someone asked a question about this so I looked back at some old pics. I hunted the Ruahines a lot over the winters during the meat hunting era. By myself and with a mate. 45-50 odd years ago. ...
Liked On: 10-07-2023, 11:08 PM
The lady in question appears to have had her 'bush' clear felled
Liked On: 07-07-2023, 09:51 PM