I found it best to use a low powered and very wide flood angle head torch while walking around - this makes it easier to spot the eye shine, and a powerful led spot mounted to the scope to use once...
Liked On: 11-05-2019, 05:45 AM
7mm rem mag 162grn eldx. The projectile I recovered was at 20 yards and the other shot was at 80yards on sika. The recovered projectile was found under the skin on the offside shoulder while the...
Liked On: 10-05-2019, 10:46 PM
FFS-the squire of rakaia is as proud as the windsor ginga with his fisr bairn !seriously tho ,hes right -weve been mates over a decade and when i first met him he had two -the immortal elvis...
Liked On: 10-05-2019, 10:45 PM
took the afore mentioned potlicker down the river for a run. now that he fancies himself a rabbit machine I took trusty 20 gauge. we fany about checking some edges oskar feigning keenness until a...
Liked On: 10-05-2019, 10:43 PM
I would get a scope good in low light and have a go at whatever you can see, you should be able to shoot out to 100m ok (you may want to give it a bit of lift at that distance depending on what your...
Liked On: 10-05-2019, 10:41 PM
Thanks for posting this mate. I have shot two deer in the last week using the eldx however not reloads (box of factory ammo I’m trying to use up) I haven’t chronied these but imagine they are not...
Liked On: 10-05-2019, 10:39 PM
I have a reasonably large battery setup for my maxtoch mounted on my .22, so just leave it on all the time. Full power for scoping out all of the rabbits at a distance, then it gets switched to a...
Liked On: 10-05-2019, 10:26 PM
Last time I did this I walked the area in the daytime and divided the area up into "stations" where I could walk a circuit and be presented with different shooting opportunities Say if you were to...
Liked On: 10-05-2019, 10:13 PM
I have my order in for the aluminium ELD 6.5 at 153gn. with regards the the 143 thin copper on the ogive... it means more lead bias to the front moving the COG forward... helps aparantly
Liked On: 10-05-2019, 09:41 PM
Awesome little evening hunt tonight, the birds were coming in thick and fast. Managed to bag 6 but could only retrieve 5, unfortunately my Lab Rocco is nursing some wounds so had to sit this one out....
Liked On: 10-05-2019, 09:27 PM
Oh, and if you're going to gut them, do it straight away, or the smell my put you off ever eating rabbit. Hares are way worse in this respect. You can take the back legs and backstraps via the...
Liked On: 10-05-2019, 09:23 PM
You'll get bigger numbers by waiting it out in one of their favourite locations, but that gets a bit boring unless there is constant action. Walking around can be fun. If shooting at night by myself,...
Liked On: 10-05-2019, 09:22 PM
If your rifle and you like those, I have most of a box my rifle doesn't like, swaps is good (projectiles not the wife!)
Liked On: 10-05-2019, 09:19 PM
I was planning on cooking them, their are a few big ones so should do alright out of them. I have seen plenty up there late afternoon but there is a public walkway through the farm so need to do...
Liked On: 10-05-2019, 08:18 PM
Yep nice work Flyblown you can certainly see the thickness off the jackets especially in the heavy weights. I think the interlock rings aren't there looking at those cross sections and it will be...
Liked On: 10-05-2019, 08:09 PM