One for the Howa Mini today - thankful for the wee cheapskate’s precision and lightness for this shot. Used a thin leather sling as a shooter sling resting the elbows on my knees, really steadies...
Liked On: 10-02-2022, 10:19 PM
I have two as I would rather ruin a Sporter barrel with corrosive than some of my more expensive mosins. Currently I have a no4 sorrel and sons carbine rechambered for 54r as well as a martini...
Liked On: 08-02-2022, 02:34 PM
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Liked On: 07-02-2022, 09:30 PM
Jesu i'll have to scrub up on uploading pics but in short this week i hope to fire this for the first time...i got it off Ross Collings ... his father Din built it and as the story goes it has yet to...
Liked On: 07-02-2022, 09:29 PM
Greetings all, It has been raining in HB for the last two days and I have been thinking about the widely different load data observed for the .303. Generally the data shot in actual .303 rifles...
Liked On: 07-02-2022, 07:23 PM
Hi all, Keen to share a rifle I’ve owned for a short time now. I had been looking for one of these model 1’s for a while but hadn’t found one in the right condition until recently. I threw a...
Liked On: 07-02-2022, 03:46 PM
Greetings bumblefoot and all, Thanks for that. I had seen pictures of the old Ideal tools but never seen one used. I was impressed that he tried to use period equipment, melting the lead in a ladle...
Liked On: 07-02-2022, 12:12 PM
We don't have much of hunting here but for fishing trips I take what we call "Calcutta Rolls" basically grilled chicken wrapped in a roti (Wheat Bread) with some chutney and Mayo. Two wraps are...
Liked On: 07-02-2022, 06:06 AM
Have watched a number of capnball videos in the last couple of years, certainly worth watching.
Liked On: 06-02-2022, 07:06 PM
Greetings All, At the risk of hijacking Moa Hunters thread even further we should not be to hard on the younger generation. We are all products og the generations we grew up in. For those of us...
Liked On: 06-02-2022, 06:24 PM
Greeting to all of you a little bewildered by the endless procession of new must have cartridges, rifles, optics etc etc etc, I was born in 1949 and by the time I started to take any notice of...
Liked On: 06-02-2022, 09:18 AM
After a quick tussle with throat cancer we laid our old boy to rest at the start of the week. Nugget was around 12 years old. We took him on at one year old as an untrained rescue dog. A slight...
Liked On: 05-02-2022, 04:06 PM
Greetings All, It has been all hot and horrible here in Hawkes Bay for the last few days and I have been hiding from the sun and doing some research. My dearly beloved calls it something else. I...
Liked On: 04-02-2022, 04:39 PM
Gidday Guys - well after comparing the "candidates" the Rem Model Seven CDL won out - it's a nice rifle for an old fart who still prefers walnut and blued steel. It dates as manufactured in 2006 but...
Liked On: 03-02-2022, 08:39 AM
Just bear in mind that brass is consumable, you can do things to help extend it's working life, like annealing (NZ made Annealing Made Perfect Machine, perfect way to crash your reloading budget and...
Liked On: 01-02-2022, 08:35 AM