Thread: What little pesties did you bowl over today?

Ahhh finally got something worth showing. Still meant to be off my leg but went for a 3km walk to the railway bridge this morning which was fine also saw a seal in the river. (thats 16km up the river) so that was new. anyway the important part I asked dad if he could take me to shoot a goat he said yes so yeah I shot a goat. had the bow and tried to get my brother one but ended up sitting at a spot where we couldnt get any closer so I just shot one. Fat little bugger.


Cant really see its a seal but its a seal I have a video of it I may put on later.

Originally Posted by Toby

Ahhh finally got something worth showing. Still meant to be off my leg but went for a 3km walk to the railway bridge this morning which was fine also saw a seal in the river. (thats 16km up the river) so that was new. anyway the important part I asked dad if he could take me to shoot a goat he said yes so yeah I shot a goat. had the bow and tried to get my brother one but ended up sitting at a spot where we couldnt get any closer so I just shot one. Fat little bugger.

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Cant really see its a seal but its a seal I have a video of it I may put on later.

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Good to see you out and about with blood on your hands Toby.

Well done Toby

Good on ya

nice one toby ..


tell us a bit about your rifle

Well. Its a .22lr. Marlin 25N pretty accurate I have shot out to 270m with it and thats about it really. Once all the camo wears off I'll give it a few years I'm going to clean up the stock take off the scope put it back into open sights and give it a re blue.

Originally Posted by Toby

Well. Its a .22lr. Marlin 25N pretty accurate I have shot out to 270m with it and thats about it really. Once all the camo wears off I'll give it a few years I'm going to clean up the stock take off the scope put it back into open sights and give it a re blue.

Hey Toby ya not spose to put camo on till duckshooting

Originally Posted by Dundee

Hey Toby ya not spose to put camo on till duckshooting

Wear my camos all the time

Originally Posted by Toby

Wear my camos all the time

SAME!!

Originally Posted by Toby

Well. Its a .22lr. Marlin 25N pretty accurate I have shot out to 270m with it and thats about it really. Once all the camo wears off I'll give it a few years I'm going to clean up the stock take off the scope put it back into open sights and give it a re blue.

Methinks he knows how to use it

Originally Posted by Dundee

Hey Toby ya not spose to put camo on till duckshooting

He was wearing wet land camo in hospital the first time I met him Dundee. The young man has total commitment.

I've finally blooded the 223. I've been a real slacker about getting my 223 into a state where I can hunt with it, but it's finally suppressed and ready to go so I took it out last night.

I missed about 3 or 4 shots with it last night so I'd started to worry it had had a knock or something (jumping a fence) and you guys know what it's like once you start doubting a rifle. Your shooting turns to crap. I was shooting eggs and targets with it last weekend so maybe I'm just a shit shot with it

But I got a hare and a rabbit.







And my brother got 3 hares and a rabbit with his HMR.





This guy was a real big bastard. His head was getting close to the size of a cats.

You just need more time behind the eye piece RimfireNZ.

Originally Posted by Rushy

You just need more time behind the eye piece RimfireNZ.

Yeah it's a bit of an adjustment. It's a bigger rifle than my HMR and it's even bigger than my model 700 7mm08. The bit I struggled with the most is getting behind the high mag scope. I'm really starting to think a decent Leupold 4-12 would be a far better varmint scope than the Weaver Grand Slam 6-20. I'm relatively unimpressed with it. It's better than the 6-24 bushnell I had... but that wasn't hard to beat

Are all high magnification scopes shithouse or am I just not in the right price bracket yet ($500USD shipped or $1000NZD over here)? I'm thinking I would have been better off getting a VX3 4-14 or whatever they are.

Every single one I use (ie 6+ to 20+) cuts out a lot of your peripheral vision, they're hard to get behind and they always get washed out at high magnification.

I have only had brief experience of a real quality high power scope a couple of times and have to admit I struggled getting good eye relief on both occasions. To be fair they were on other peoples rifles so I was probably more of the problem than the scopes.