Thread: A Blast From the Past. Firearms Licensing Old Style.

Originally Posted by Bos

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Same era I remember getting on the Arthurs Pass railcar at Christchurch Railway station with my pack and a 303. It was ski season and it was packed. No-one even blinked an eye!
Imagine that now........if youcan

Still got my original Certificates Of Rego somewhere, the wife will know where. First one cost me the old currency (right on the changeover in 1967). Still got that rifle.

Re Railway travel - one of our old rifle club members was in his young days in the Navy in Auckland. The Navy used to put him, carrying his rifle on the train to Trentham to attend the Fullbore Nationals at the Trentham Rifle Ranges. I think it was the overnighter and I am not sure if the 303 was in a canvass bag or not.