I did like you said and tried that lever action. Henry golden boy. mostly for the novelty, but short range around the house. I figured 100 yards is easy for 17hmr. I got 17hmr because I have one...
Liked On: 25-08-2022, 04:59 PM
I have occasionally seen disparaging comments made about the humble Howa 1500. There seem to be threads singing the praises of most of the other major brands so I thought I'd start one up for what...
Liked On: 30-07-2022, 08:24 AM
My Father passed away late last year. Fast forward to early March this year and my lad (12yrs) and I are on my Uncles farm helping to replace wheel bearings on his trailer. Uncle goes over to...
Liked On: 22-05-2022, 02:56 PM
Have wanted a "classic" rifle for a while now and kind of kept a half hearted eye on the forum and trademe etc for one to come up and this rifle came up on the forum a few weeks back. I contacted the...
Liked On: 27-10-2021, 08:50 AM
Dragged a mate out to a new (for him) spot, for a change of scenery, and in the hopes of getting him onto a deer or a tahr on the weekend just gone. Left as early as we could on Friday evening and...
Liked On: 22-10-2021, 10:39 PM
We were supposed to go up North in the second week of the holidays but that couldnt happen, so Oliver and I went hunting instead. We picked it good. If we have left it any later we would have been...
Liked On: 15-10-2021, 02:08 AM
New boing boing sprung seat on and slightly more tweaked bars finalized (mounted above top clamp now with riser clamps just to lift them slightly) and front dropped 32 mm to sharpen (lol) the...
Liked On: 13-10-2021, 03:37 AM
The newest arrival to the growing collection, 180253 T3x Hunter (in 243) with a Leica ER5 3-15x56 on top and a DPT can hanging off the end, and a limbsaver I had lying around.
Liked On: 02-10-2021, 01:06 AM
Picked up a bare howa alpine minus the bolt off here a couple weeks ago it was already chopped to 18" and threaded, through the magic of this place I have managed to sort a bolt, zeiss terra 2-7x32...
Liked On: 01-10-2021, 11:36 AM
Never fells right to me without a .243 in the cabinet… https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20210918/9596d6fbb963cffccf78d0440f6348e2.jpg It’s favourite load has tightened up some too...
Liked On: 01-10-2021, 11:36 AM
Took a long weekend last weekend with a mate and headed into a well known Ruahine catchment for a look around. I’d had my eye on a big slip system not too far off a main track for a while and had...
Liked On: 30-09-2021, 12:09 PM
Hi, Myself and good mate walked 8.5 hrs, for a look into new country last weekend, with the plan to hopefully get onto some stags. Setup camp in rain and clag as per expected, next few days...
Liked On: 13-03-2021, 09:20 AM
The week before was a two day trip to a lake area and no deer seen on this trip, but a couple of fish caught. This was a trip with my youngest Son and kiwiinSeattle! who had invited us. My son has...
Liked On: 12-03-2021, 10:00 AM
Something a bit different, i took my old 1941 lee Enfield no4 mk1 T .303 Sniper rifle out for a hunt on Sunday on some public land, and i managed to shoot a big old hind with it at 275 yards away!...
Liked On: 09-03-2021, 10:17 PM
I like the 17hmr as well for the shooting I am doing. CZ are good out of the box, I am a fan of them and I was going to go that way. ! But had a few things to consider for myself. 1.Weight...
Liked On: 12-02-2021, 06:21 AM