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    Preparation pays off

    A bit over a week ago Grunter and I got out for some long range practice to confirm out setups etc, and test out Neckshots hard bastard steel plates. Which all went pretty well, and we got the rifles on the money and verified drops against the results from Shooter.

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    A week later (last thursday) i had arranged with Grunter to go down to Dundee's farm in Dannervirke and slaughter a lamb for the freezer.

    So we thought we might as well and go and check out a new spot and get a quick hunt in before we sorted out the woolly bugger.

    So we ventured into a new spot high in the northern Ruahines. Saw four deer fairly early, and tipped this fella up at 7.15am at 470 yards as he fed across an open face back into the scrub for the day.

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    My longest shot to date. The 162 Amax fired from the 7mm SAUM smashed both shoulder blades and poleaxed him where he stood, a couple of cartwheels and he came to rest just above a steep drop off.

    He was in good condition, and despite hitting him in both shoulders there was little meat damage and we recovered all four legs and backsteaks. He had a decent body size and my poor old 40L huntech barely managed to fit a front and a hind leg and one back steak in it, but it did it and survived.

    Looking forward to the sausi's and salamis now
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    The little white dots in the centre of the red outlines are the steel plates which are 500mm x 500mm, nice big plates, so we can see how far we are off, rather than just missing a smaller plate, and not knowing how far we missed by.

    Very happy with Neckshots 450 Hardox plates, the 162 Amaxs doing 2,990 fps, also hit them with a 100gr Ballistic tips at 3,275 fps from my 260 Rem and neither of them damaged the steel at all. They gave a really good 'ding' back. By using the white paint we could see our hits through our 15 power scopes quite easily which was great.

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    Congrats on the red. Nice shooting.
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    Great reading! That's training well paid for!
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    Well done and well worth the prep by the look of the results.
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    Brilliant GWH.
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    Bloody fat stag Awesome how you marked those plates in the first pic and the second,great shooting!
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    Quote Originally Posted by Dundee View Post
    Bloody fat stag Awesome how you marked those plates in the first pic and the second,great shooting!
    Yeah i told ya he was a heavy bugger, and my shoulders were sore ;-)

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    Great bullet. Good result
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    Good work GWH

    Pays to be prepared alright

    Get yourself a young apprentice to tag along for the Hunt (read Carry ) ..... They are always keen and it saves your shoulders.

    Cheers
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    Quote Originally Posted by P38 View Post
    Good work GWH

    Pays to be prepared alright

    Get yourself a young apprentice to tag along for the Hunt (read Carry ) ..... They are always keen and it saves your shoulders.

    Cheers
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    Hey Pete, i had @grunter with me, and am thankful for it too!

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    That's what plates are for. good to see a guy having a good win good on you GWH.next time your down this way give me notice and we should get out for a stalk.Or we can go and ping some steel.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Neckshot View Post
    That's what plates are for. good to see a guy having a good win good on you GWH.next time your down this way give me notice and we should get out for a stalk.Or we can go and ping some steel.

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    Steel don't full the freezer
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    Quote Originally Posted by Dundee View Post
    Steel don't full the freezer
    mines full!
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    Quote Originally Posted by Dundee View Post
    Steel don't full the freezer
    Well in a way i beg to differ, it sure helped me fill mine ;-)
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