Hunting styles in US and NZ are generally very different in US most deer are shot from hides or seats ((I lived and hunted there for 3 years) with little foot hunting. Alpine hunting is the exception...
Liked On: 13-08-2022, 11:54 AM
Why has no one mentioned the fact that most chasis designs appear to be mud/moisture/gravel traps?
Liked On: 13-08-2022, 11:52 AM
ugly ugly ugly - to many bits to clean - to many bits to catch on scrub - heavy - awkward to carry - dont handle that well - end of story
Liked On: 13-08-2022, 11:50 AM
not only that a pistol grip digging into your spine when slung gets old pretty quick when walking :thumbsup:
Liked On: 13-08-2022, 11:50 AM
and if B.W. is even half right in his number of animals "migrating " from public land onto private.......the private land owners should be very forthcoming with open access to public land to keep...
Liked On: 12-08-2022, 06:12 PM
I would suggest most peoples "discretionary dollars" have dried up or been sucked up with the increasing costs everywhere I mean in our hobby just look at costs increases in components! As far as...
Liked On: 06-08-2022, 12:17 PM
I reckon you can't beat the old td27 Terranos for bulletproof reliability and reasonable capability as an off-road hack. My experience is based mainly on buying many $5-7k sort of price range trucks...
Liked On: 22-07-2022, 09:28 PM
“Noise has also been a subject of contention. On the day of a shooting competition in November 2021, Smart recorded 257 gunshots heard from outside his house between 8.35am and 11am”. Fuck me dead,...
Liked On: 17-07-2022, 08:13 PM
With out being sneeky and risking yr fal.Knock on the farmers door first.They might let you shoot on the or near the river boundry.But if the river bed is near the main centres and gets a bit of use...
Liked On: 09-07-2022, 11:55 AM
The other factor that comes into play is the Dwell time; the time the projectile is in the body a longer time span delivers more energy along the wound channel, High velocity and fragile bullets...
Liked On: 09-07-2022, 11:51 AM
Here on the forum there has been quite a bit of discussion lately regarding different projectiles, soft frangible vs harder bonded or locked types. I am in the bonded camp and bullet pass through....
Liked On: 09-07-2022, 11:50 AM
The very sad fact about suicide is that more people will die by their own hand this year than will die as a direct result of Covid-19 and the road toll combined, the official number will be over 600...
Liked On: 19-06-2022, 05:33 PM
Would his proposed firearms law really do anything but clarify something already legit? Shame about his suicide. It is still a taboo in NZ but our new euthanasia laws would seem to normalise it. ...
Liked On: 17-06-2022, 09:38 PM
Exactly; use a rifle for what its designed for. A hunting rifle should show the after-effects of use, if it gets used often enough, even if you're one (like me) who looks after them. You cant help...
Liked On: 23-05-2022, 07:08 PM
It's even worse when you are looking at buying vintage rifles and you ask the vendor about bore condition ? And they reply " it's a collectors piece. You can't shoot it " and " the bore is...
Liked On: 23-05-2022, 07:08 PM