30" that's almost 2 barrels welded together Sent from my CPH2145 using Tapatalk
Liked On: 28-06-2023, 01:19 PM
My Dad showed me this on the weekend. His Grandfathers letter of employment as manager of Siberia station, 100 years and small change ago. Note the cowboy @ 30 shillings/week - a pound was 20...
Liked On: 28-06-2023, 10:56 AM
Maybe I could have shot around the tree at that last sika haha
Liked On: 28-06-2023, 10:47 AM
I had to true the shoulder of a 16” bergara b13 barrel the other day because of a similar issue with the factory thread. The bore had a slight bend into it. If you do not use proper indicating rods...
Liked On: 28-06-2023, 10:47 AM
Hi Guys havent had any baffles strike myself ,but noted that the shot has pulled when a can is on . what i do now to all builds now regardless of make -strip the barrel down and...
Liked On: 28-06-2023, 10:46 AM
Is the suppressor true to the bore? Look down the bore from receiver with suppressor fitted. You should be able to eyeball any significant inconsistency. If it is out of whack it could be the...
Liked On: 28-06-2023, 10:45 AM
Rebarrel a second hand rifle with a fast twist instead my 22x47lap shoots lights out with the 88eldm that greg built up
Liked On: 28-06-2023, 09:44 AM
I've got a Weatherby Mk V "Varmintmaster" in 22-250 that I acquired in the UK in 2019. Before I could arrange all the paperwork and carriage covid happened - so nothing happened, it's still there. ...
Liked On: 28-06-2023, 09:43 AM
I decided to ratioalis some rifles down to one. I had a slow twist 223 A 204 and my old slow twist 22-250. I have always wanted a fast twist 22-250 so settled on a super varmint factory 1-8 twist...
Liked On: 28-06-2023, 09:42 AM
Agreed, those wads are terrible things, thankfully it's slowly changing. Federal also make paper target loads, but not available in NZ. More ammo has fibre wads options these days, but there are...
Liked On: 27-06-2023, 11:58 PM
No one appears to be stocking it in NZ, although on the kilwell page they list gamebore regal game paper out of stock. From an environmental perspective plastic hulls are not biodegradable and its...
Liked On: 27-06-2023, 11:57 PM
the guys who managed a decent head in the 80s posibly had the hardest time animal numbers wise.... shikes it was lean going everywhere.
Liked On: 27-06-2023, 06:07 PM
Think Graeme Sinclair would agree. Committed . Left the Hutt Valley to move to Hokitika so he could be closer to his wapiti grounds.
Liked On: 27-06-2023, 06:07 PM
I don't know what the Wapiti licenses cost but I found one of my grandfather's Otago Acclimatisation Society licenses dated 1927 to shoot one Red stag in the Matukituki. The price was 5 Pounds which...
Liked On: 27-06-2023, 06:06 PM
Exactly as Eddie Herrick did with two of the official NZ moose. I have one of the loose rounds out of his final Kynoch packet. Copper capped projectile, olde world look.
Liked On: 27-06-2023, 06:04 PM