Water won't deactivate modern primers. They're surprisingly hard to kill.
Liked On: 30-03-2024, 09:04 AM
Brilliant, thanks for all the info. That all makes sense to me. I’ll slug the bore and start piecing it together from there. I’ll be sure to be in touch at some point! There are a number of black...
Liked On: 27-03-2024, 08:29 PM
Australia is a completely different market to NZ, even though it is just across the ditch. NZ is called a monopoly. You would be very lucky to see any 7x57R brass in NZ. There was some Norma a few...
Liked On: 19-03-2024, 08:20 PM
Yes you can make 7x57 from .270, fireforming loads not necessary if you don't want to. I've formed 6mm Rem, 7x57, 8x60, 7x60 from from .30-06 & .270 (and .35 Whelen just to see if I could)...
Liked On: 19-03-2024, 08:19 PM
Sheesh!
Liked On: 18-03-2024, 07:49 PM
I did some 257 Robts case from .270 cases years ago, found I had to neck ream them as there was quite a bit of thickening at the base of the neck where the .270 shoulder was swaged into the .257...
Liked On: 17-03-2024, 08:53 PM
Sometimes rubbish gets trapped in the stock recess below the cartridge lifter. Take the stock off and check, cleaning as required. If you can see marks in the woodwork where the lifter sits when the...
Liked On: 09-03-2024, 08:28 PM
I've got my Dad's one of these (originally a Sportsman 15) , he got it about 1955, I started using it about 1969. It's shot thousands each of rabbits and goats, plenty of pigs, possums, quail, cats...
Liked On: 09-03-2024, 08:28 PM
New guy here - so take this with a grain of salt .... Give it a good clean with Brakekleen and compressed air . Then report back.
Liked On: 09-03-2024, 08:28 PM
I just watched a fair few of his vids, and not only has he got it dialled in, but his lure choice seems to be, pretty much all the different, smaller kinds that Temu and Ali Express want me to buy,...
Liked On: 08-11-2023, 04:45 PM
Yea, that's the one. Seems to have it dialled in.
Liked On: 06-11-2023, 06:35 AM
I'm trying, but failing. This is THE guy, he is based in Whangarei: https://www.youtube.com/@AlbertFishOn/videos
Liked On: 06-11-2023, 06:34 AM
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Liked On: 05-11-2023, 07:08 PM
I've targeted them with fly and softbait, sight fishing the edges at incoming tide and always spooked them. The only I've caught was with a zed lure while salmon fishing... Dragged zeddy up over the...
Liked On: 05-11-2023, 02:56 PM
Ive read a punctured can of sweetcorn..on string so can retrieve it and take home afterwards...works as burley for them... never managed them on rod,speared a few,netted a few and have even gone so...
Liked On: 05-11-2023, 02:55 PM