If you are shooting a 308 across a gully or up a hill at 500 yards with little/no wind indicators at an animal, you are going to need a huge amount of luck if you think you are going to kill it even...
Liked On: 27-03-2015, 06:50 PM
Wind reading at a range with flags/grass etc is a lot different than shooting long range across a gully with no indicators, then every wind advantage is exactly that an advantage.
Liked On: 27-03-2015, 06:50 PM
Um, take it from someone who shoots a fair amount of long distances in wind using non-magnum calibers... 162 amax @ 2500 (sedate out of a 7mm08) 12mph full value wind = around 7.0moa 162 amax @...
Liked On: 27-03-2015, 06:48 PM
whoever shot that 8 must be packing a subway footlong
Liked On: 27-03-2015, 05:20 PM
Hey chaps just got home from 3 days on the tops, Trip was cut short due to weather Epic trip, we bumped into lots of deer out in the open, stags weren't roaring on there own but where firing up...
Liked On: 27-03-2015, 05:20 PM
Stick to backcountry then mate I couldn't care. Just saying absolute wilderness is way better grub imo. We stayed in tents and had cheese and onion toasted sandwiches cooked on a bloody massive pan...
Liked On: 26-03-2015, 07:46 PM
I know this won't help a lot but maybe it will be better for more people to have a fair idea where people are going in Easter . The more we talk the more we eliminate chances of getting shot. I'm...
Liked On: 26-03-2015, 07:21 PM
Out last night after 10 days in Fiordland. Plenty of deer seen, a bit of roaring action, nice young stags/bulls about and a bloody good adventure overall. No shots fired, nothing old enough or big...
Liked On: 26-03-2015, 07:14 PM
Thursdays nights effort in the Ruahines, only a little fulla but he close to road end and was out feeding 2 hours before dark so was too tempting to turn down. No roars heard ...
Liked On: 26-03-2015, 09:32 AM
I usually get up high and hunt down, I have also roared plenty of stags from down in the river valleys, but then lies the problem of having to hunt up into the bush if they wont come to you, always...
Liked On: 22-03-2015, 08:45 AM
Got my first stag for the season in the nelson region today. Tried a old haunt havnt been to in months, shot a typical scrubby nelson stag. pointer but boy was he fat as mud. perfect meat animal,...
Liked On: 22-03-2015, 08:38 AM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pF7xoW0sbJQ hope this helps some people to know what you can and carnet do in NZ
Liked On: 20-03-2015, 05:40 PM
Cheers guys brought a new leica 1600 today
Liked On: 19-03-2015, 07:41 PM
A Tikka and Blaser is like chalk and cheese I think I Would like to have the cheese over a Tikka if their is any one in the lower south island that wishes to play with one let me now and will make a...
Liked On: 19-03-2015, 07:39 PM
Just buy one sight unseen. It's even more exciting that way :thumbsup:
Liked On: 19-03-2015, 07:38 PM