Thread: Can I target shoot on your land? (Wellington)

Originally Posted by Gapped axe

well that turned pretty quick.

@Gapped axe
yeah didn't it

Is it any wonder why this young lady has formed her opinion of us with the sort of behaviour we are exhibiting here?

Originally Posted by deepsouthaussie

I must say @TheWuce your comebacks have been smoking and on point throughout this thread. Touche' ...

What else would you expect from an aussie. I mean that in a positive manner BTW.
The thing about living in NZ is that the sheep jokes are about aussie's (not the wrong way around).
I always copped that (and my 12 year old son) over there but that was from the blokes-we give her too much stick look out lol.

To be totally blunt if you cannot handle a few " old goats " muttering under their breath and "glaring " at you . You will not last 5 minutes in your new job because you are going to encounter far worse and more in your face with lots of unhelpful suggestions

Originally Posted by Tankd

To be totally blunt if you cannot handle a few " old goats " muttering under their breath and "glaring " at you . You will not last 5 minutes in your new job because you are going to encounter far worse and more in your face with lots of unhelpful suggestions

Yeah I am fully aware I'll be copping it big time at my job trust me, but that's work. But shooting is my hobby, you know? It's meant to be fun and make me happy and shit, I don't want to deal with these old cunts making it a shitty experience every time I shoot. I did just put up with it at first but it's been months now of these assholes chipping away to the point that I am now on the internet basically begging for a scrap of grass to shoot on in instead.

Originally Posted by TheWuce

Yeah I am fully aware I'll be copping it big time at my job trust me, but that's work. But shooting is my hobby, you know? It's meant to be fun and make me happy and shit, I don't want to deal with these old cunts making it a shitty experience every time I shoot. I did just put up with it at first but it's been months now of these assholes chipping away to the point that I am now on the internet basically begging for a scrap of grass to shoot on in instead.

Sometimes threads get a little hijacked sideways, not uncommon around here, feel free to carry out your own disruption from time to time......

Go back to the Kaitoke range and keep shooting.
Ignore the old pricks and don't give in to what they want.

Systolic making sense?

Originally Posted by systolic

Go back to the Kaitoke range and keep shooting.
Ignore the old pricks and don't give in to what they want.

Better yet, just fire off some rapid strings and have a laugh.

I often practise service rifle up there, if it is going to be rapid fire I tend to just tell the other range users to expect it. There have been the odd comment about "zombie apocalypse" etc, but just as many times they've come over to ask questions about the gear or style of shooting.

Originally Posted by TheWuce

Yeah I am fully aware I'll be copping it big time at my job trust me, but that's work. But shooting is my hobby, you know? It's meant to be fun and make me happy and shit, I don't want to deal with these old cunts making it a shitty experience every time I shoot. I did just put up with it at first but it's been months now of these assholes chipping away to the point that I am now on the internet basically begging for a scrap of grass to shoot on in instead.

My old grandmother,bless her heart, always maintained that it took two to tango.

Put a brake on your SKS just because you can

Originally Posted by Cigar

Bugger, hope they can get it sorted. I have known a couple of people with lepto, one was a workmate a couple of years ago, he lost quite a bit of weight but recovered okay. The other was a beef farmer who was the brother of a dairy farmer I worked for one uni holidays in the late 80's, he was in bed for 18 months initially. That dairy farmer told me never touch a dead calf, because you didnt know what it had died of.
Hopefully it's the modern treatments that make the difference, best of luck!

My father was a vet and he caught it, I was too young to remember much but it did knock him around quite a bit

Originally Posted by TheWuce

No they're the group of old retired guys that talk shit about me and passive aggressively try to get me to leave the range because I am female, young, using semi automatics and because they just want the range to themselves. They are the stereotypical old boys who set up their $3000 bolt actions, range finders and chronos and then gather in a circle to talk about reloading and glare at me for shooting when they are trying to talk. They will show up as a group when I am already there, get annoyed at for being there because they expected the range to be empty and then start mouthing off under their breath with misogynistic bullshit and how "that little shit" is going to ruin their range day by shooting semi autos.
They are the only group of people I have problems with, most of the people that use the range are great but those old assholes seem to be there most days of the week just standing around talking and getting annoyed at people for actually shooting.




I'd pay $80 for a four hour booking, shoot for an hour and then leave. Four hours is the minimum booking but I don't have that much free time in one chunk to shoot on weekdays.



Deerstalkers




I try and sometimes do get the place to myself but I don't even mind sharing the range, it's just that one group of old assholes that I try to avoid but they always seem to be hanging out there like it's their social club house.

this is worse than the last job interview I went to

Originally Posted by TheWuce

Okay okay you're actually making sense now, I guess I did kind of treat it like a newspaper ad. I think since I've been lurking for months I already felt like I was part of the gang or something haha.

Okay hi, I'm Lucy. I grew up on a farm in Tasmania and I've been shooting since I was 13 and hunting since I was 14. I moved to NZ two years ago and work in electronics repair, and I'll soonish be starting training to be a prison gua- sorry, I mean a "corrections officer". My ultimate goal is to buy a big piece of land and have a cattle farm like my dad did. On our farm in Tasmania we had a serious wallaby problem and a culling license but because we couldn't use semi automatics the only thing that worked for culling was loading six guys up on the back of a ute and rolling through the paddocks like an Al Queda death squad in a technical trying to pop wallabies from all sides with bolt actions. It was stupid dangerous and stupid fun.

I think gas piston is superior to direct impingement.
I think .300 blackout is a novelty and 7.62x39 is superior in every way because you don't need uber fancy subsonic handloads in a country with unregulated suppressors. Fight me.
I think Simonov would be stoked on my bubba SKS even though it can't hit largest side of barn
A shotgun with slugs is my favourite thing to shoot
A Barrett .50 Cal is my dream gun
I think wallaby mince and venison mince mixed 50/50 and cooked in to spaghetti bolognese is the most delicious thing in the world.

And I may or may not be a bar of soap, I cannot confirm or deny.

The two guys who've messaged me weren't realistic options so I'll give up on the newspaper ad and try some good old fashioned networking I guess.

@TheWuce a lot easier to do that here than back home accross the ditch yeah?
Good to see that those evil semis so reviled in aussie haven't corrupted us kiwis.
Oh and silencers haven't turned us into assassins either

Originally Posted by gadgetman

Enough and the problems just dissolve away?

Enough and your guts dissolve away and fall out of your arse. Lepto is a cure for Waikato.