I run a 1.5-6x40 which is fine for large game shots to 300 mtrs. Must say the low end brightness is great when looking into those dark patches just inside the bush edges. Really lifts out the...
Liked On: 18-03-2021, 06:41 PM
I run a 1.5-6x40 which is fine for large game shots to 300 mtrs. Must say the low end brightness is great when looking into those dark patches just inside the bush edges. Really lifts out the...
Liked On: 17-03-2021, 06:53 PM
My Dad has blind spots in the centre of his right eye and had to teach himself to shoot left handed with a custom bolt action and did well. However for hunting he went to a lever. (1970's). One...
Liked On: 17-03-2021, 10:29 AM
That would be a great Head for a south island head, let alone a free range North Island Animal. Very Impressed. You must be stoked with that one. Z
Liked On: 15-03-2021, 10:09 AM
Shoot them in a 243 108gr eld-M a couple of fellow did not move a single step last June and a red yearling hind dropped on the spot 2 weeks back. But son is pissed at me as I punched a hole in...
Liked On: 06-03-2021, 09:26 PM
2nd the Vixen, Put 4-16 on son's 223, felt it's great value for money....
Liked On: 04-03-2021, 10:15 PM
Shoot them in a 243 108gr eld-M a couple of fellow did not move a single step last June and a red yearling hind dropped on the spot 2 weeks back. But son is pissed at me as I punched a hole in...
Liked On: 03-03-2021, 07:38 AM
270 is a larger case so stepping down to a 308 or 7m08 you are going backwards 100-150 fps in velocity. Z
Liked On: 02-03-2021, 11:27 PM
Shoot them in a 243 108gr eld-M a couple of fellow did not move a single step last June and a red yearling hind dropped on the spot 2 weeks back. But son is pissed at me as I punched a hole in...
Liked On: 02-03-2021, 10:46 PM
Shoot them in a 243 108gr eld-M a couple of fellow did not move a single step last June and a red yearling hind dropped on the spot 2 weeks back. But son is pissed at me as I punched a hole in...
Liked On: 02-03-2021, 10:18 PM
have a listen to the Cam Speedy interview on the Educated Hunter Podcast. I've been hunting on and off since the mid 1980's and I learned a lot from that one. As others have noted, bush hunting is...
Liked On: 19-02-2021, 11:12 PM
mirrors my experience, unless you can be very selective with you placement, I've done subs (220gr HP lead) in my 358win on 3-4 goats and I think my 22WMR did a better job of killing. I now save...
Liked On: 19-02-2021, 11:57 AM
NB, if using Eley subs in a semi. Note they do 2 different loads, 1 for semi's with a 42gr bullet at 1070 and for bolt actions a quieter 38gr at 1020fps that may not cycle....
Liked On: 19-02-2021, 07:20 AM
yep, used 85gr GK and berger 87gr hunting on goats, small-medium deer and a Tahr . If you are taking fallow deer or red yearlings you could drop down to the 70-75gr classes as well for better splat...
Liked On: 12-02-2021, 08:25 AM
He he I've been known to put the first round of a new batch into the ground just sort of resting the rifle out in front of me at arms length. After that I'm fine. Touch wood i have never had a...
Liked On: 07-02-2021, 07:37 PM