I had been fizzing for the Canterbury Show Day long weekend with a multi-day trip planned to the Lewis Pass. A week out with increasing dismay I watched the forecast get worse by the day until a...
Liked On: 18-11-2022, 06:42 PM
happy little guy!
Liked On: 17-11-2022, 08:10 PM
Cartridges of the World give max loads of 49 grains of 4895 with the 170 grain and 45 grains with the 198 grain for 2,570 and 2,450 fps respectively. I would probably start at 38 grains (80% of 48...
Liked On: 14-11-2022, 01:28 PM
Decided to get the 3006 out and try some 165 gr game king loads I'd made for an upcoming few days away. I don't often use this rifle, a parker hale safari from the early 60s but this is a special...
Liked On: 13-11-2022, 02:40 PM
My good mate Allen / amlnz decided he was free for a hunt today so we set off from mine at 0stupid hundred and headed up to my favourite bush stalking haunt knowing it would be hot....Holy smoke it...
Liked On: 13-11-2022, 02:38 PM
Here's a special little build I just completed, a replica of the only known prototype of the Paratrooper Delisle Commando carbine built by Stirling. This one has the under folding Stirling SMG...
Liked On: 13-11-2022, 10:01 AM
Sam txted - I'm coming down . . . Which really meant "can I do some shooting?" Now Sam doesn't ask for much, he's nearly 14 and has only recently had his Dad come back into his life, so he's had a...
Liked On: 13-11-2022, 07:01 AM
Watching thunder and lightning rolling around the hills over towards Molesworth right now as I'm cooking dinner ready for my wife to arrive home from work. Impressive thunder and black real black...
Liked On: 12-11-2022, 06:21 PM
The old Safari needed some additions for the Canterbury rivers. Snorkel done in about 4hrs, nice n casual no stress & everything went as it should. Ready for a spring hunt in a couple of weekends....
Liked On: 12-11-2022, 03:39 PM
There you go. Don't know why the extra image appears.. 210052 210053 210055
Liked On: 12-11-2022, 01:20 PM
Well it took a couple of weeks, between shiftwork and norwesters (the area we were going does not hunt well when it's a nor wester), but a couple of weeks back Moa Hunter and I finally managed to go...
Liked On: 12-11-2022, 06:27 AM
Update, Few weeks back I finally got around to Duracoting the metalwork blue/black. 209996 209997 209998 209999 210000 210001 210002
Liked On: 11-11-2022, 08:27 PM
Its a pretty much stock 3sge motor. We just put itbs and a link ecu on it. Just under 200hp at the wheels. For a car that weighs 1251kg dry it doesn't go too bad. She's been on a big diet as well....
Liked On: 11-11-2022, 07:09 PM
A few of you that know me know of my addiction to motorsports..... This season has seen a change to the livery of our car to tart the old girl up. We've raced the car in the South Island...
Liked On: 11-11-2022, 07:08 PM
OK - I lie, it's a "K Hornet". This rifle has been lurking "unloved" in my cabinet for at least 5 years - at fault, wouldn't reliably cock. These rifles reputedly break sear springs so I sourced...
Liked On: 08-11-2022, 06:19 AM