Check crown and bolt lug contact
Liked On: 28-10-2019, 11:22 AM
And headspace
Liked On: 28-10-2019, 11:22 AM
7) A large budget. :D
Liked On: 28-10-2019, 11:22 AM
In my experience, the biggest practical improvement in accuracy in the field (beyond the shooter, as you say, and not just at the range), comes from a predictable, light-enough, clean-breaking...
Liked On: 28-10-2019, 11:22 AM
Get a hold of Nathan Foster's book The Practical Guide to Bolt Action Rifle Accurizing and Maintenance. It goes into a lot of detail around small tweaks that can be done yourself with some care. I...
Liked On: 28-10-2019, 11:21 AM
Most factory rifles can be improved significantly with a trigger job and bedding. I'd do that first before worrying about anything else.
Liked On: 28-10-2019, 11:21 AM
Very grateful of this thread as as I'm in the same boat more or less.
Liked On: 27-10-2019, 04:38 PM
That is a very nice knife, maybe too good to give the lad to learn with straight off. What about giving him a little folder to use (like the ones H&F gave away with fishing licences a couple of years...
Liked On: 23-10-2019, 09:38 AM
I think he's lucky having Foster there guiding him along. Here's the knife I'm sending him. Its my old gutting & arse-hole knife from when I was commercial hunting. So the lad is doubly lucky. ...
Liked On: 23-10-2019, 09:37 AM
Get a map and plan a hunt in advance. Choose an area based on good reasons for deer to want to be there. It’s spring. The animals will be looking for food. They’re hungry cause there’s been fuck all...
Liked On: 23-10-2019, 09:34 AM
You're not going to do too well hunting tracks let alone hunt safely. Get off the track and onto spurs and into the creek heads and the likes. Sika are not stupid but I wouldn't consider them any...
Liked On: 23-10-2019, 09:33 AM
If it's bush your hunting, then if your sweating your going to fast. Into the wind and hunt where the sign is. Don't look for the whole animal look for something that's not right i.e. Ear flick,...
Liked On: 23-10-2019, 09:32 AM