Thread: 270 shooters

@csmiffy Yeh she is bloody handy on a blade as she grew up on a farm around horses all her life & her family made a well known Saddle & Tack she does a bloody good job sharpening any gear as well .She has the painting bug now but l keep egging her on to get back into leather work, her old man made me a couple of fantastic woven leather belts still going strong over 30 yrs now,l wish l had got him to make me a leather rifle scabbard.

Yep love my Barnes ,when we were in Africa & Oz we saw a lot of clients using totally unsuitable gear ie light calibers for the job /their ability on big critters & the Barnes were stand outs for getting the job done .When you are not spending all your time just punching paper, but putting the lights out on living creatures you owe it to them to get the job done properly, the small extra cost in using the best available is nothing when you take in all the other costs of hunting & it means you get better eating meat in the deal .

She is a keeper alright over 35yrs now,our 4th date was 2 day hunting trip & she shot her first ever Chammy & over the years l took her into some of the most remote & dangerous areas in the world .We often wonder if we were among the last Westerners to hear about the 9/11 Twin Towers attack ,we were away Spearfishing & Hunting on a remote Island off the Arnhem Land coast, that was country for a tribe l was " adopted " into ,we never knew anything about the attack till l think it was 18 days later & never saw any pictures until about 24 days after when we got the supply plane to bring newspapers of when it happened.

I was very lucky in that she loves hunting & my daughters still do as well ,she proved what a good sort she was on my Birthday hunting trip when l offered her to sneak off for a romantic over night stay in $200+ per night AirB&B ,but she wanted to do a Jet Boat, Fly Camp Hunt seeing the fucking Lock Downs had meant it had been so long since doing one .

So we snuck off from the party crowd at the Bach,with a couple of bottles of fizzy stuff & a couple of cray fish & oysters in the chilly bin & camped by the river just around the bend from a productive river flat l knew & she got that deer first thing in the morning ,who said l am not romantic & even at 52 she still has a more adventurous spirit & get up & go than most blokes .