A short outing on the hill. found a few cull beasts in a suitably scenic location.
https://youtu.be/6BhTZdtm4EA
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A short outing on the hill. found a few cull beasts in a suitably scenic location.
https://youtu.be/6BhTZdtm4EA
A 6mm?!
All those Britishers and Germans and so on will be choking on their dinner watching this, they get very cranky about the 6mm and red deer. Clueless, most of them, who cares... Good shooting, I don’t have a head for heights and would struggle with that kind of approach.
Fantastic - enjoyed watching that. Looked like pretty challenging terrain. Which area is that in?
Your shooting still looked very effective despite lose scope mounting. Sure is rough country no place for mistakes.
Good shooting mate. Nice video
An enjoyable view thanks
Magic country/scenery
The Germans for sure, most likely the English too but the Scots are ok. As you say, "clueless" or variations thereof. I once read that "only gunwriters can't kill deer with a 243". I grew up reading that stuff, thankfully I was soon exposed to the effectiveness of a 243.Quote:
Originally Posted by Flyblown
No it was ok. I would have had to fold if the deer had started moving, no way for me to keep their pace. It's Highlands, West Coast. One of those places I do not know how to read, pronounce or remember. Very scenic area.Quote:
Originally Posted by Hewie
I was lucky, that could have escalated to something much worse. Checked the rifle the day after, it was shooting so-so, was unable to get that "firm" zero. Didn't discover until home that screws had lost their torque. The symptom of something loose it typically that it holds zero for a few shots and then shifts again.Quote:
Originally Posted by Mooseman
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Originally Posted by Klhari
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Originally Posted by trooper90
Thanks! Scotland, gotta love it but it's not quite South Island.Quote:
Originally Posted by Tommy
Great little video, Have fallen in love with my 6XC. Can't bring myself to part with the 6.5x55 barrel for the R8 though.
I'm the same. It would be daft not to shoot 6,5 in Norway. With 123gr bullets in 6,5x55 I duplicate the 105gr 6XC load to the point where I'm using the same ballistic turret with no error first 500. And the 123gr bullets are 60% the cost of the 105gr here.Quote:
Originally Posted by Barefoot
Did you bone them out and carry them out or used a quad?
Short drag, all downhill + quad.Quote:
Originally Posted by Russian 22.
Very enjoyable to watch and informative as usual. Love your camera / filming work....not sure how you manage to do it all and do some fine shooting but awesome from start to finish.
Thanks for posting.
I like to take my gloves off if the going gets difficult. You need to get a good grip on those short tussocks and shrubs.
Here is a NZ article on safe travel in the subalpine zone by Johnny Mulheron. He has written up reviews of fatal accidents in the NZ Mountains in the FMC bulletin for many years.
Almost always, there is an easier safer route nearby, if you have the patience and fitness to backtrack and find it. Don't be rushed into a suicide route.
Thanks for the post, Norway.
Practice. It's no different than getting the rifle out, but the stalking takes a lot longer than if you're just out to shoot them.Quote:
Originally Posted by viper
Thanks for the link, excellent article! I almost walked myself into a tight spot first time I visited NZ, coming around the slope it was getting steeper and wetter (there was just lumps of speargrass (name?) everywhere, made the firm ground hard to see) and I was simply unable to find a good rest anywhere and just had to keep going. That had me worried as I was too far in to get off and was more than a bit worried about sliding and gaining speed/ tumbling. Nothing happened, not a step went wrong but it left me shaken as I didn't see the trap until I was in it.Quote:
Originally Posted by Bagheera
Great vid. thanks for posting.
The word cull caught my eye,really enjoyed that,thank you.Quote:
Originally Posted by Norway
Very nicely shot video - thanks. Whats in you pack (besides quite a bit of video gear obviously) that takes you to over 15 Kgs? Do you always carry the front pouches?? I used them in army days and despite thinking a lot about a slimmer hunting version, have never ben "brave enough" to try them hunting as I feel they would make it too hard to move across really steep terrain.
Can you tell us about the 6XC ?
Does it fit into a 308 size action ?
Why is it better than the 243 ?
What sort of ballistics are you getting from yours ?
Yeah, I really used to enjoy hunting good bucks but at one stage it just snapped and it gave me absolutely nothing. So I'm happy to leave the good beasts to people who can appreciate them better than me, I'm in it for the hunt and the filming.Quote:
Originally Posted by doinit
Yes, the front pockets are the only way I can get the cameras in/out fast enough. Not how I constructed mine, they are only sewn to the harness along the top. They are soft backpack pouches made by Kifaru, nowhere near the stiff feel of military webbing.Quote:
Originally Posted by Tentman
As for weight, the backpack is shit. 2,5 kgs and that's me removing frames, lids and unnecessary fabric. The tripods are 3,5 kgs each the cameras about 2 ea. Outside camera gear, I only carry a gralloch kit, syntethic insulator, mittens and hat plus water and a snack.
Ballistics = 6,5x55 trajectory with a little less punch in a short action.Quote:
Originally Posted by Bagheera
I have been told by a ballstician at Norma that 6 XC is easier to load develop for and it is inherently more precise/ predictable. The Swedish team won the world championship when they started using 6 XC. The 243 can see pressure spikes and fliers as the throat start to wear, this has been removed from 6 XC. I don't really know, I just parrot the information. My 243 shot ok, but 6 XC is definitively in a different league for precision.
I know that any load I've tried in my 6XC has shot well, from 85gr to 105gr projectiles. It operates on a little higher pressure than the .243 so you get the same performance for a little less powder.Quote:
Originally Posted by Norway
Nice vid, some interesting country there.
No, a few valleys further northQuote:
Originally Posted by Elrond