I can vividly recall standing in supermarket isle with my wife and debating if the family budget would stretch enough for me to by a wee bottle of 3n1 oil to clean my rifles with... a few years...
Liked On: 06-10-2022, 10:52 PM
I like functional stuff that does a job well. Ive been guilty of spending stupid amounts of money on stuff also just because I thought it was cool or others would think it was cool but I think I'm...
Liked On: 06-10-2022, 10:50 PM
I am only a snob in that I am in the figured walnut- blued- hand chequered -all metal -lots of neat machining detail - type of hunter
Liked On: 06-10-2022, 10:46 PM
I have come across both ends of the spectrum.....personally if I could I would have the best optics and rifles money could buy (who wouldn't ?) if cost didn't come into it....as far as I'm concerned...
Liked On: 06-10-2022, 10:46 PM
If you have a flash rifle and big expensive scope I'll probably assume you are a city dweller who only gets out hunting once a year.
Liked On: 06-10-2022, 10:44 PM
my setups say "peasant"............. having said that you cant deny the difference between leica (for example)optics and what i run.....
Liked On: 06-10-2022, 10:44 PM
When you have a chance , measure the diameter of a 30 cal projectiles. You ll find that 8mm does not give you much chance in case of the slightest misalignment. In 30 cal We bore our brakes at 8.4...
Liked On: 06-10-2022, 10:40 PM
That’s one of the reasons I won’t cut a muzzle thread without the actual can. Whilst a thread might have a nominal size, 1/2 x 20 or whatever I find variations from tight to loose between the...
Liked On: 06-10-2022, 10:31 PM
Yes I am happy with low rabbit numbers, they are pest animals. 20 years ago we'd shoot 30 every night, but that has changed. Partly it is because the land use has changed, less sheep and less short...
Liked On: 05-10-2022, 12:41 PM
I heard rabbits in some area has become immured to K5 virus. Great fun, I like rabbit hunting especially with shotgun, and I like smoked rabbits or slow cooked one.
Liked On: 05-10-2022, 12:39 PM
We have shit loads of magpies around my place, if shot about 30 of them this year. Managed to get 10 in about 30minutes one day when the dead ones started acting as decoys for the rest of them,...
Liked On: 05-10-2022, 12:19 PM
nah..will just carry on using the FLR as per instructions in most any reloading manual produced in last 75years LOL... old saying..if its working why bother stuffing around with it???
Liked On: 23-09-2022, 12:29 AM
Yup, I watch a bit of magpie shooting on y tube. there's and english guy on there who shoots them at some impressive ranges with a sako 223. search crow shooting uk .223 and you should find it if...
Liked On: 20-09-2022, 11:06 PM
A pair of good quality sidecutters or secateurs helps cut the feet off which makes pulling the cape off after gutting a whole world easier.
Liked On: 20-09-2022, 10:23 PM
Gut them as soon as you shoot them, skin them and cut them up when you get home. (that’s what I do)
Liked On: 20-09-2022, 10:14 PM