I invented it so I get to make the definition. A retrobate, is someone who annoyingly uses old rifles like .303's and BSA Majestics, wears wool, and most annoyingly will not shoot deer at long range...
Liked On: 17-02-2025, 11:06 PM
You, sir, are a retrobate.
Liked On: 17-02-2025, 09:58 PM
I invented it so I get to make the definition. A retrobate, is someone who annoyingly uses old rifles like .303's and BSA Majestics, wears wool, and most annoyingly will not shoot deer at long range...
Liked On: 17-02-2025, 09:56 PM
Yep. William is right. People who call a carbine a bushpig are the same kind of retrobates who call deer "donks". Fuckwits, I mean.
Liked On: 17-02-2025, 09:41 PM
It comes from the French. Either is correct. John Wayne calls it a carbeen, so it's a goddam carbine.
Liked On: 17-02-2025, 08:36 PM
Rifle: .303 SMLE sporterised Range: 100m (ish. Paced out with long strides.) Optic: Not really an optic. A round hole in a bit of metal soldered onto the receiver. Probably from a washer of some...
Liked On: 14-02-2025, 10:44 PM
You havn't got around to it, but apparently everyone else hasn't done enough for your liking. I'm not sure you'd be allowed into any firearms "community"'.
Liked On: 09-02-2025, 07:42 PM
Hi have a lot of experience with the .44-40. The main smokeless load for the .44-40 is using 2207 (H4198 in American) and 26 grains. This will get you around 1300 fps which is what a .44-40...
Liked On: 06-02-2025, 06:37 PM
You are too old to be worried about this. It's not the risk of some slight poisoning you should be worried about, it's the wintertime. But the good news is that we are now both too old to die...
Liked On: 30-01-2025, 09:23 PM
None. There are agendas involved here. You have to be wary of who presents this kind of evidence. Remember the NZ scientists who presented a dead native bird to the press, that had eaten a bullet...
Liked On: 30-01-2025, 11:17 AM
Yep got the farm. But I am going to find out what range STC shoots at now.
Liked On: 28-01-2025, 01:59 PM
Chaz Forsyth has passed on, for those that knew him. The guy was basically an institution in the NZ shooting world. I was dealing with him right up to Christmas and he seemed to be battling his...
Liked On: 28-01-2025, 11:43 AM
Chaz Forsyth has passed on, for those that knew him. The guy was basically an institution in the NZ shooting world. I was dealing with him right up to Christmas and he seemed to be battling his...
Liked On: 27-01-2025, 07:38 PM
Rifle: .303 SMLE sporterised Range: 100m (ish. Paced out with long strides.) Optic: Not really an optic. A round hole in a bit of metal soldered onto the receiver. Probably from a washer of some...
Liked On: 26-01-2025, 08:35 AM
Rifle: .303 SMLE sporterised Range: 100m (ish. Paced out with long strides.) Optic: Not really an optic. A round hole in a bit of metal soldered onto the receiver. Probably from a washer of some...
Liked On: 26-01-2025, 07:26 AM