So some research and this image arrives of what the proper hammer might have been like 245029 Ask around lots of guys and 5 very nice hammers come up from Southland and one from CNI Fit up...
Liked On: 03-03-2024, 11:44 AM
Had a Winchester Featherweight in 257 R quite a while back, nice rifle and shot well, shot a few deer with but sold it on to soon in hind sight. They work well for NZ conditions, basically a 243 on...
Liked On: 03-03-2024, 11:37 AM
And so it begins. 12 week old GSP x Lab. 245045
Liked On: 03-03-2024, 10:36 AM
257R is a very capable cartridge for NZ, but you need to be a reloader that's for sure. I shot all my best animals of a 15+ year period with mine and only sold it on as I got hooked on 6.5mm stories...
Liked On: 03-03-2024, 10:20 AM
Mate of mine has run D Max for years. Until he retired recently he did a lot of DOC contracts and also hunting. He tows a big boat and works them hard but always services on time. A suggestion no...
Liked On: 02-03-2024, 10:18 PM
Can also save a bit by prepaying for services when you buy the vehicle. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
Liked On: 02-03-2024, 10:18 PM
Here's the servicing fees for all Toyotas and what gets done https://www.toyota.co.nz/globalassets/servicing/toyota_service_menu_2023.pdf ...
Liked On: 02-03-2024, 10:18 PM
The thinking man doesn’t have commercial TV and definitely does not watch adverts.
Liked On: 02-03-2024, 10:18 PM
There is a very nice Winchester 70 in 257 Robert with two boxes of amm9 at hunting /fishing in hamilton.
Liked On: 02-03-2024, 09:08 PM
you should have a box of 100grn NBT on hand too...nothing to loose giving them a try..will be very much 243ish lol but it looks like you tipping animals over no problem anyway.
Liked On: 02-03-2024, 09:08 PM
Another "like" from a .257 user here, also on a VZ33, and has been my go-to for 35 years, and as such has been responsible for maybe 80% of the deer I've shot. Ranges from 15m to 310m :thumbsup:. I...
Liked On: 02-03-2024, 09:08 PM
My youngest son Connor is almost three and up until last night I hadn’t yet taken him hunting. His eldest two siblings got their first outings at about one year of age but he has unfortunately fallen...
Liked On: 02-03-2024, 05:04 PM
Haha. The "crocs" are from Ali Express so I guess you could call them Alligators:)
Liked On: 02-03-2024, 04:25 PM
blades with serrations on blades towards the handles were not invented by hunters -those making them are not hunters - bloody useless- in fact worse they are just bloody mongrel pricks of things -...
Liked On: 02-03-2024, 04:22 PM
Was a favorite of mine a few years ago, had a couple of improved also. The late Tony Hawkins rebarreled a Browning BAR for me in standard 257R, sold it prior to the "buy back" so didn't have to hand...
Liked On: 02-03-2024, 04:17 PM