About grandpamac

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About grandpamac
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Okawa Hawkes Bay
Interests:
Hunting, handloading and outdoor.
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Retired

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  1. 7mm Rem Mag
    7mm Rem Mag liked post by grandpamac On thread : 73gr ELDM in 223
    Greetings Adam, I am loading 69 grain match kings ahead of 25 grains of AR2206H which chronographs 2,960 fps and gives excellent accuracy. The LOA is 57.5mm in my 1 in 8"" twist T3x. More important...
    Liked On: 24-06-2022, 09:46 PM
  2. Micky Duck
    Micky Duck liked post by grandpamac On thread : Light Primer Strikes
    Greetings to you both Moa Hunter and Micky Duck, Thank you both for your kind words and advice. I suspect that you both handload out of neccesity and for you the handloading is the prelude to the...
    Liked On: 24-06-2022, 06:41 PM
  3. Moa Hunter
    Moa Hunter liked post by grandpamac On thread : Light Primer Strikes
    Greetings Moa Hunter, The dies are likely cut to US SAAMI spec but this is out of line with the spec being used in Finland. Unfired and fired Lapua cases from the T3 measure almost the same, both...
    Liked On: 24-06-2022, 01:16 PM
  4. Moa Hunter
    Moa Hunter liked post by grandpamac On thread : Light Primer Strikes
    Greetings All, As mentioned previously in this thread light firing pin strike and missfires can be different to a lot of different things but it can be due to a combination of things. One thing that...
    Liked On: 24-06-2022, 11:45 AM
  5. Micky Duck
    Micky Duck liked post by grandpamac On thread : Baikal single shot rebarrel - Anyone done this?
    Greeting Micky Duck. A lot of continental rifles have a 12mm approx dovetail including some of the early Brno .22 rifles. I have heard of some making up an adaptor to take an aperture sight intended...
    Liked On: 24-06-2022, 10:15 AM
  6. Moa Hunter
    Moa Hunter liked post by grandpamac On thread : 7 prc Sammi
    Greetings All, I bought a Remington Sendero in 7mm SAUM in 2004 with ideas of using it on the Kaweka tops especially around Kiwi Saddle. The following year a Remington VSSF in .223 cuddled up next...
    Liked On: 23-06-2022, 11:40 PM
  7. Muttonguts
    Muttonguts liked post by grandpamac On thread : Zeroing for Stalking
    Thanks for your kind words sheep, Those of us who started our hunting when a laser rangefinder was science fiction and scopes were 4 power assumimg you had one were very keen on what we called point...
    Liked On: 22-06-2022, 11:17 PM
  8. Muttonguts
    Muttonguts liked post by grandpamac On thread : Zeroing for Stalking
    Greetings sheep, My .308 is sighted in at 172 metres. A handy spot from my bench. Close to dead on from 25 to 50 metres and within 40mm out to 200 metres. I can't think of any reason for sighting in...
    Liked On: 22-06-2022, 11:13 PM
  9. Rated M for Magnum
    Rated M for Magnum liked post by grandpamac On thread : Rifle/ caliber opinions for bush and mountain
    Greetings All, I think that the OP had an answer in the first few replies so the following 70 or so are just an oppurtunity to have a little fun and perhaps get some new ideas along the way. People...
    Liked On: 22-06-2022, 02:04 PM
  10. flock
    flock liked post by grandpamac On thread : Downloading / Reduced loads for youth or recoil sensitive shooters
    Greetings All, A few notes on reduced loads in the .308. There isn't a lot of data about these days for IMR4198 in the .308 but i turned up some max loads from the Dupont 1975/76 and the IMR 2003...
    Liked On: 21-06-2022, 08:35 PM
  11. Dama dama
    Dama dama liked post by grandpamac On thread : Rifle/ caliber opinions for bush and mountain
    Greetings All, I think that the OP had an answer in the first few replies so the following 70 or so are just an oppurtunity to have a little fun and perhaps get some new ideas along the way. People...
    Liked On: 19-06-2022, 08:24 PM
  12. stagstalker
    stagstalker liked post by grandpamac On thread : Rifle/ caliber opinions for bush and mountain
    Greetings All, I think that the OP had an answer in the first few replies so the following 70 or so are just an oppurtunity to have a little fun and perhaps get some new ideas along the way. People...
    Liked On: 18-06-2022, 06:58 PM
  13. yeah_na_missed
    yeah_na_missed liked post by grandpamac On thread : Rifle/ caliber opinions for bush and mountain
    Greetings All, I think that the OP had an answer in the first few replies so the following 70 or so are just an oppurtunity to have a little fun and perhaps get some new ideas along the way. People...
    Liked On: 18-06-2022, 01:28 PM
  14. Micky Duck
    Micky Duck liked post by grandpamac On thread : Resurgence of interest in the old "Three Oh"?
    Thankyou akaroa1, Over the past week or so I have developed some coping straregies and have a back up plan of a quiet room with some soothing recordings of rifle fire on the range that I have...
    Liked On: 18-06-2022, 10:15 AM
  15. Micky Duck
    Micky Duck liked post by grandpamac On thread : Getting back to living off the land.....
    The rifle remins me of my first one. It was a Parker Hale conversion of a No 1 about the same age as yours. The fore end was cut down but otherwise it was standard. In the late 1960's it cost me...
    Liked On: 17-06-2022, 06:22 PM

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