my 410 folder 1366gms one day I'll get a deer with it! My Haenel Jaeger 9 .243 just over 3kg with scope etc. Great little accurate takedown. 243923
Liked On: 17-02-2024, 09:16 PM
In the old days only "the best London guns" had red rubber buttplates, Sako have just copied the trend (and have done for years, along with other gunmakers to be fair) trying to pass off their...
Liked On: 17-02-2024, 09:13 PM
Molesworth Road is shut to general public access. Rainbow Road is open at moment, road toll also in place.
Liked On: 16-02-2024, 10:25 PM
Good question. This last year I shot three deer with the Leupold 1.25-4 VXR/308 combo (it has a 200yd zero). Two around 200yards (open tussock) outside of the bush edge and one at around 30yards...
Liked On: 16-02-2024, 02:03 PM
I’m using Winchester 748 ball Some get fancy Magnum primers, others I’ve just pulled out of the Greek surplus 303, the 98k does not care what it is fed. A Mix of sako game head 286g, cast...
Liked On: 15-02-2024, 07:17 PM
Not really a lot of ballistic calculations required at that range or horse power for that matter I could have introduced him to a .338 160 TTSX out of my pig thermal rifle at 2550-2600fps but...
Liked On: 15-02-2024, 07:15 PM
Twodiffs If you are not into sharpening yet, I can highly recommend a Lansky sharpening tool. This is a good starting point and you will soon get good results!
Liked On: 14-02-2024, 08:31 PM
Here's one panel in progress, where I straightened each line as I went. The stock surface is not as curved as your example though. 243658 243659 I don't have a photo to hand of the panel cut...
Liked On: 13-02-2024, 08:43 PM
Hey team. First attempt at checkering. Going ok, it’s harder than I thought it would be! Had a few whoopsies where I have strayed off the guide line, mostly because I was going too fast I think. I’m...
Liked On: 13-02-2024, 08:43 PM
$168 in 1970s dollars is the same as $3,328 in todays dollars for CPI. Wages it's over $5k. ( https://www.rbnz.govt.nz/monetary-policy/about-monetary-policy/inflation-calculator )
Liked On: 11-02-2024, 09:30 AM
No, that is probably because the spacer has not been put on from the top . There are two tabs on the top which stop it from falling down. But sometime you can still hear the spacer rattling
Liked On: 10-02-2024, 09:36 PM
Go to your local Gun Shops and have a look at the secondhand stock. I know in Invercargill there would probably be 50+ suitable rifles. Benefit of this is that you get to shoulder the rifle, you may...
Liked On: 10-02-2024, 07:32 PM
243446 My lightweight, 5lbs two oz scoped, highly modified kimber, in .260, manners ultra light stock, someones, custom build they couldn’t pay for. feels like a toy, too light really, bit...
Liked On: 10-02-2024, 07:28 PM
I run sea to summit spark 0. 255grams, packs down tp a coke can it's warmer than you think and I run in the shoulder season with some warmer clothes. Have done winter trips with it in huts too.
Liked On: 10-02-2024, 03:44 PM
I started deerstalking with a fully wooded .303 that was my 16th birthday (1963) present from my father, which cost him just under 10 Pounds from Turner & LeBrun for a new FTR'd BSA No.1 Mk.III*....
Liked On: 09-02-2024, 11:17 PM