Over the last year I’ve been gradually refining my backcountry hunting loadout. The goal being to cut weight without compromising efficacy or safety. A year ago, I’d be lucky to hike in with a...
Liked On: 12-02-2023, 11:23 PM
How are you measuring it? The correct method is to measure from the muzzle to the toe of the butt to achieve the greatest measurement. A bare 762mm is legal. Do not measure parallel to the bore as it...
Liked On: 10-02-2023, 06:08 AM
The 80gr ELDMs at 2800 out of a 223 seem to work fine for shoulder shots on reds and bulk tahr at close range so I can't imagine the 7mm 162s won't
Liked On: 08-02-2023, 07:47 PM
These are brilliant at crushing scope tubes :thumbsup:
Liked On: 02-02-2023, 07:46 AM
I do this with a lee collect neck sizing die, of which I have ground off the decapping pin.
Liked On: 02-02-2023, 07:45 AM
Lucky they had a PLB and didn't have to resort to using a swiss army knife. re movie "127 hours"
Liked On: 01-02-2023, 09:52 PM
Never mind worrying about killing the primer, that is the most expensive part of the whole bullet at the moment....
Liked On: 01-02-2023, 09:50 PM
Yes I'm not real sure exactly the story behind the rifle, I bought it off the rack at Frontier Supplies in Te Anau so it may have been a fiordland rifle all its life, there was also a very nice zkk...
Liked On: 31-01-2023, 09:18 PM
Hope this doesn’t cross the boundaries of the forums political commissars. Not trying to influence anyone, just sharing in case it helps anyone else to have their say. Q1 - Should the firearms...
Liked On: 25-01-2023, 10:35 AM
Yep he's still waiting for Bergers to do another run of jackets so he can make some more 95gr .243. He being me, I was talking to them the other day & nothing in sight for a while. They are looking...
Liked On: 24-01-2023, 12:16 AM
215252 Not bad for an old girl. Factory S&B 140 soft point
Liked On: 23-01-2023, 09:06 PM
Ah I miss my Duralyt! I had that exact scope. Brilliant. Probably my biggest regret selling that one!
Liked On: 22-01-2023, 09:04 AM
Stainless baffle from my 223, several thousand rounds through it quite a lot with an AR on pest control. The duralum baffle was pretty munted after a couple of hundred but it was being shot at well...
Liked On: 21-01-2023, 12:24 PM
Interesting. In one box of ammo you melted a baffle? Sounds odd. Have to admit I have 3 x centrefire DPTs and one is now seized up tight. Use it on my 18 inch 7 08 and a 223. Never cleaned it and...
Liked On: 21-01-2023, 12:23 PM
Keep harvesting :cool:
Liked On: 21-01-2023, 11:58 AM