RIP mate, and may the stags be closer and the hills flatter where you are now
Liked On: 09-05-2024, 08:34 PM
Johnny been in the plannning game for too long myself, but pm me with your q's and details if you want. Happy to assist with planning/process related questions
Liked On: 09-05-2024, 07:39 PM
Otis is a handsome boy.My daughters best friend. 249586
Liked On: 06-05-2024, 05:12 PM
Always via Makino Hut and the 3 wire bridge ..... then up up up. Funny how we always end up carrying our kids in life :D 249472
Liked On: 04-05-2024, 08:36 PM
Over the last 11 years I've shot and found 284 deer with a dog helping or a dog with me. For 10 years it was Tilly the wirehair pointer (258). Now it's Bella the Lab. She's 14 months old and we have...
Liked On: 29-04-2024, 02:52 PM
There’s a decade old thread in here somewhere I started when I bought Ellie, my beautiful GSP. I updated it recently mentioning we lost her to cancer late last year. She was a pedigree and...
Liked On: 27-04-2024, 06:09 PM
There were some half reasonable Sika heads in there back in the day 248912 And on a trip down memory lane, still some silly deer about. Still a very smoky fireplace though 248913
Liked On: 27-04-2024, 06:08 PM
A few I have just downloaded. 248761 A deer bed that had been vacated just moments before this photo. 248762 One of our local section raiders. 248763 A mouse leaping around the wood pile in our...
Liked On: 25-04-2024, 09:24 PM
Went walkabout yesterday, taking the Sako M591 243W on the hunt for Hares and Rabbits. I visit this block several times a year and while it's been a reliable provider over the years of these small...
Liked On: 25-04-2024, 09:21 PM
Its usually me that's wrong... so I'm gonna shut up now :D I thought svt40 might pop in with some advice and pictures of his 8x58r brass forming adventures
Liked On: 17-04-2024, 12:18 PM
Remember the 8x58 is larger at the base than 7x57R so you will get significant bulging. Even 7.62x54r is smaller at the base than 8x58r. svt40 will tell you about escapades in brass forming
Liked On: 17-04-2024, 12:17 PM
I have had pig dogs hunt until 13 years old, they just go a little slower and let the young ones do the miles but still enjoyed the hunt, I retired him when his mobility started to really be a...
Liked On: 15-04-2024, 07:11 PM
7x57 start load of 31gr 2208 is only 2000fps. That is an extremely light start load. 8x57 start load of 43gr 2208 does 2400fps. That is a normal start/moderate velocity for 8x57. It’s actually...
Liked On: 13-04-2024, 03:55 PM
Nearly 24% more bore volume. 7mm bore area is 3.5 x 3.5 x 3.141 = 38.5 mm2 8mm is 4 x 4 x 3.141 = 50.25 mm2 Can't escape the maths
Liked On: 13-04-2024, 01:19 PM
His ‘want a rumble’ face :wtfsmilie: 247942
Liked On: 13-04-2024, 01:19 PM