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Howdy. Just joined this forum.
I live in Nelson where I like to grow a bit of my own food and hunt for meat. I don't get out as much as I'd like to, but I enjoy anticipating the next outing.
I have done a lot of shooting, having grown up in a time when military-style shooting was done at some high schools. I have a fondness for simple equipment and open sights.
Below is a picture of myself taken by a buddy who captured one of my most surprising moments.
https://i.imgur.com/8Rt7qyc.jpg
Welcome Coote. Great photo by the way.
LOL great photo. welcome ye old Coote.
Were you trying to stick the levergun up one nostril before you fired?Quote:
Originally Posted by Coote
Bloody great photo!
Welcome to the forum :)
Great photo , hope you didn’t miss
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Welcome to the forum. A brilliantly timed photo
What was the immediate outcome after that pic was taken?the hammer isn’t back.
Welcome along
Does the name Pat Win rings any bells?Quote:
Originally Posted by Coote
Yo Vietnamcam. You once gave me some .308 brass which was a very nice gesture. I don't have a .308 now, but I learned a bit playing around with it.
Ah... yes... the picture. I did miss with my first shot. If you look closely you will see the hammer is down but the pig is still up.
Ideally the gun should have been pointing at the hog before I squeezed the trigger. However, in the excitement, I ejaculated the lead prematurely. Fortunately the muzzle blast only a few inches from the pig's earhole caused the animal to pause and contemplate the situation thus giving me the opportunity to shoot again.
Yes... I knew Pat Win. He was the engineering teacher and a pretty good bloke. Alan Walker was another teacher who got involved with the shooting at college. Jim Upton was the college caretaker for a while, but prior to that he was a sargeant-major (I think) in the NZ Army. I remember participating in a shoot where he was in charge and he tuned me up for 'palming' my bolt. Did you go to Nelson College 6 x 47?
Coote does the name BIll Lake mean anything to you? Think Nelson College, English teacher and no right hand.
I shot many rounds out of a .22 training rifle up at the range behind Barnicoat and Fell House at Nelson Boys in my day .
Not many young people would believe you these days when you tell them you shot rifles at school, at the schools own range and the school provided ammo .
Also made a few SLR barrels glow hot during School Army Cadet training during my time at Nelson Boys .
Yeh, by co-incidence. I wasn't one of Pat's boys but you may recall being beaten in .303 shooting. Not that I'm gloating :) That's a looong time ago.Quote:
Originally Posted by Coote
Yes, I remember Bill Lake. I recall that he could do some wonderful foreign accents.
It would be nice to have had the knowledge and experience that I have now before starting college. For a start I would have been more focussed on what I wanted to achieve and the learning would have had more relevance. Secondly, I might have made the most of enjoying relationships with the teachers who, at the time, were basically just people we had to deal with because we had to be at college instead of out hunting. Bill Lake, and most of the others, were guys that would have been well worth keeping in contact with.
I never got to shoot SLRs while at college, but I did expend a lot of cartridges on the school range... where the rifles were kept in an old wooden shed on the side of the hill. One day the teacher gave us the key to the 'armoury' and told us to go ahead and set up ready to shoot. He was to follow behind with the ammo. A group of us got up to the range before him and chose our rifles. One boy had a .22 cartridge in his pocket... a short, I think. Above him, in a big old pine tree, sat a native pigeon. He shot at it, but the pigeon just sat there. I saw the teacher was walking across the playing field up to the range and I observed the whole thing with great interest. The teacher climbed the small hill up to the range and stood near the pine tree... and just then the pigeon dropped dead at his feet. A bit of trouble followed that incident, but the teacher kept his job and the student was not expelled. I can't recall the name of the offending student now.
Dang... somebody beat me at .303 shooting?!!! What year was your last at Nelson College 6x47? Want to give me a first name so I can browse my memory banks? I was there from 1968 to 1972.
Coote he can still do those accents. My wife is his daughter.
It's a small world Rushy. Good to hear that Bill is still performing. I seem to recall that my old girlfriend's daughter was friends with a daughter of Bill Lake. I don't like to publish other people's surnames on a public forum for a subject like this without permission, but my girlfriend's daughter's name was Catherine. Her surname initials were v A.
Bill only had one daughter so I will ask my wife.
Welcome Coote.
Are you the same Coote from the fishnhunt forum?
Welcome along @Coote, plenty of good nelson buggers on here.
Good to see another keen nelsonite joining the knoledge group, support network, banter base that this forum is [emoji106]
On ya !!
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Thanks for the welcome.
Yep, I was on Fishnhunt as Coote, but I haven't posted there for quite a long time.
I used to be active on a number of forums over the years, but now I'm not. The latest burst of communication on this forum is the most I've done in ages.