I had a stark reminder of this last week. I used to laugh that the times put beside track markers were worked out by pushing granny in a wheel chair. Well I was reminded of my encroaching...
Liked On: 20-08-2021, 04:22 PM
Possibly because the stock was so glorious, you were afraid to put a ding in it while in the field? :P
Liked On: 19-08-2021, 11:00 PM
There's one being used in Aus & it's fitted with a True Flite! https://i.imgur.com/HqhQQ6U.jpg https://i.imgur.com/5EnWwnw.jpg https://i.imgur.com/peLP8ED.jpg
Liked On: 19-08-2021, 11:00 PM
What's everyone doing for self isolation projects I have a few years worth of gun projects on the book But i suspect I might rip through them this winter Fitted and tested a 209 primer...
Liked On: 19-08-2021, 01:26 PM
320 Dundee yards 40 normal person yards Sent from my SM-G986B using Tapatalk
Liked On: 16-08-2021, 06:53 PM
I have a near mint Nikon for sale. They are good reliable scopes for the dollar. This one is a 3-9x40 with BDC reticle, retractable turrets etc. Clean straight unit for either centrefire or rimfire....
Liked On: 12-08-2021, 08:02 AM
The other apprentice where my mate worked got one of the brens. He used to shoot it at red rocks till someone complained. Mate still had 50 round boxes of tracer from the same bunker he'd been...
Liked On: 11-08-2021, 09:36 PM
Maca49 My first car was a 1961 Morry Minor. Bought it in 1979 for $600; it was all I could afford. Again; with wages of $48 a week (gross) I had to borrow off mum to buy it. Holy sh$t the garage...
Liked On: 11-08-2021, 09:06 PM
I remember my dad on the farm convincing mum she should take a shot with his jungle carbine 303. Carbine a brutal little bugger with no real recoil pad and a real kick. She gets down into prone...
Liked On: 10-08-2021, 11:16 PM
Yes, that was him. He had and interesting career and died in 2014. He loaned me the funds to buy out an existing gunsmithing business in 1974.
Liked On: 10-08-2021, 11:14 PM
Russian 22 But $26 was a fair chunk of change in the mid 70's and the M1's etc were only 30 years old max. And; there wasn't the disposable cash to spend on rifles etc as there is now. You only have...
Liked On: 10-08-2021, 11:13 PM
Don’t forget the Toz17s for $14.
Liked On: 10-08-2021, 11:11 PM
The way hares chop into new plantings, there may not be a hedge left by the weekend! The outfit I work for will be planting 1200 native trees later this month,as we do every winter, and each tree...
Liked On: 10-08-2021, 12:45 PM
12 pound howitzer loaded with grapeshot, knowing you. Be no hedge left :)
Liked On: 10-08-2021, 12:44 PM
Meantime, I was sitting in front of a roaring fire eating bacon and eggs, washed down with a breakfast beer :P
Liked On: 09-08-2021, 07:04 AM