With all this talk of gay rifles, I am surprised no one has suggested getting a Blouser![]()
With all this talk of gay rifles, I am surprised no one has suggested getting a Blouser![]()
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One advantage of being a 270 owner and the only one I can think of is "You will quickly build up your tracking and blood trailing skills"
If you keep it for a year and you get out a lot you will have achieved Blackfella Tracka status which take others a life time to achieve. So its not all bad I guess
A great hunter I shot with brought one because he had thousands of NZFS CAC 130 gr rounds that he had received at two rounds per deer tail.
My God I could track by the time that little episode was over I can tell you. Tracking deer through pepperwood is hard with its red spotted leaves, but through red tussock its a damn sight harder.
A rather inexperienced shooter with a 270 took up a position next to me, but back a bit when I was trying to clean up a mob of deer on the tussock one day. Fuck when he fired the blast rolled me over and I have got a big fat locust that sings away in my eardrum 24 hours of the day now.
I call her Tikka.
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"Here's the deal I'm the best there is. Plain and simple. I wake up in the morning and I piss excellence."
Nah all of this shooting was at a fair range over open tussock.
This ammunition was especially made for Forest Service for animal Control and the brass was head stamped NZFS. They are still around these shells, mostly in collections where they belong.
You are right you shouldn't blame the tool and you have to blame the hunter in the end. But after a few days of mayhem he had lost his confidence in his weapon and once that happens you might as well throw stones at them.
Thanks for the feedback guys, jokes aside I'm off shopping
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This might help you decide which calibre to get
7mm08 users mostly live in Parnell and Ponsonby and do most of their hunting online. Look - there's a couple online here right now.They compare gun magazines and buy the ones with the most gloss to the cover paper.
I have actually shot a couple of deer with a 7mm08, but it left a bad taste in my mouth. I don't know, I just felt ashamed.
.308 users are generally, well, how can I say this; simple folk. Salt of the earth. But not academically inclined.
.270 people are fairly stern sort of chaps. Not inclined to brook much talk about guns and calibers because, you know, they have got a .270. What more is there to talk about.
.25/06 people are just weird. I'm sorry. Its true.
.303 guys are cheap but have been doing it for a long time. They generally do quite well shooting deer for their daughters weddings and other social ocassions. They get sighted in for 25 yards, and shoot most of their deer at 15. A box of cartridges will last about two years. They often have deer parts in the back of the truck that they just forgot about.
.223 people are the ones that stand around the edge of the party grinning, but you don't really want to go and talk to them.
6.5x55 shooters are a touch intellectual, a little bit flamboyant, usually quite good rackonteers, but you wouldn't share a hut with them up the Karangarua in the rain.
.260 people are gearheads, usually young and quite defensive because the 6.5x55 is just prettier. If the cartridge came with teflon on it anywhere, they would volunteer to pay more for it.
6.5x47mm people are elitest know-it-alls - coupled with a real defensive attitude, because their cartridge is too small and puny.
.243 men are hunters. Full stop. You should aspire to their ranks.
7x57 same also. Touch of grey in the beards.
.222 shooters are fussy. I was going to use the word 'prissy'. There, I have.
.280 guys are weird as well, but weird scary.
7mm Remington Magnums are passionate hermits who solo hunt the big country. They couldn't tell you a story about what they did, because they are pretty much monosyllablic but if you look into their eyes you can see where they've been.
.300 and .338 magnum guys are the ones who camp next to you at Lake Waikaramoana and spend the whole night yelling and throwing beer cans, and then never get up the next day to go hunting. They spend the afternoon complaining about the .303 shooter who got all the 'easy' deer and then go home via Starbucks. Often live next door to 7mm08 people and lend each other "Survivor" dvd's.
Which is worse, ignorance or apathy...I don't know and don't care.
Brilliant Stug!....and thats from a 7mm08 shooter........Mt Wellington though!!!!!!!.....flat white with one sugar.....![]()
While I might not be as good as I once was, Im as good once as I ever was!
Rule 4: Identify your target beyond all doubt
also the finish on the new ones is real shit, esp the bolt sounds not raspy but like more zipping sound and I took a look at a mates one look like the bolt hadn't even been polished
Beretta is known for its quality designed and built firearms and excellent after market service.
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Welcome to Sako club.
Most .270 projectiles were designed for northern hemisphere game as I understood it.
I had a partner in crime who used one as well, we were always, along with my poo 4 3 following friggin blood trails.
He changed cal and never looked back.
If I could ever go back to full time meat shooting it would be with a humble .223 using cheap but effective components.
The 2 former cals I will never use hunting again, no matter what developments may arise with them.
It would be like marrying an old girlfriend you just couldn't wait to dump.
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Do what ya want! Ya will anyway.
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