Model 7 stainless action, 18" bartlein 1:8 barrel, dpt mini, Manners EH8 stock, CDI bottom metal with modified Accurate mags allowing long OAL loads, timney trigger. Favourite rifle by far. It has a...
Liked On: 08-10-2021, 09:48 AM
And you don’t need the flash harry high BC heavy .224 bullets either. A well placed Belmont 62gr softpoint makes a beaut mushroom and red hinds bleed out very quickly or go down DRT if you judge...
Liked On: 08-10-2021, 04:06 AM
Mostly, its the tradition. The meat hunting days and nostalgia for me. With the 77-80 grn bullets at circa 2.9K in the .223 you are close to 243 performance with half the powder and less noise and...
Liked On: 08-10-2021, 04:05 AM
I was using a 223 on goats out to 300 yards last week with standard fiocchi 55gn soft points, it was certainly effective and much cheaper to feed than a 243 or 6mm cm My 2 cents
Liked On: 08-10-2021, 04:05 AM
Your rabbits must be really big
Liked On: 07-10-2021, 09:01 PM
Bought a silly cheap .270 Browning Xbolt from way down south with help from Tentman. You know that when it seems to be too good to be true, often it is exactly that. Anyhoo, got my hands on it made...
Liked On: 07-10-2021, 12:53 AM
Here's the next segment. It repeats the basics and starts digging a little into ballistics https://youtu.be/99Lbmxr7HyA
Liked On: 07-10-2021, 12:50 AM
Backcountry Bob To give you some idea years ago one of the members (Stug) here was making great Carbon Fiber stocks a mate took what was then a brand new offering of one on a extended Tahr we did...
Liked On: 05-10-2021, 11:59 PM
There’s a huge variety of synthetic stocks, from cheap plastic thru to high tech carbon fibre or fibreglass/composite stocks. So it depends what you wish to achieve in changing stocks and what kind...
Liked On: 05-10-2021, 11:58 PM
never too late as long as you have patience and persistence and are not a scone do'oer cause that rubbs off on the dog. Only issue I see is won't be house trained but even thats not hard assuming...
Liked On: 05-10-2021, 07:52 PM
Hey Clem, I've got a few spots that seem to have escaped much hunting pressure. A bit of a walk for them though. There are certainly big goats in there. However, the big stinky billies are wily...
Liked On: 04-10-2021, 11:53 PM
At one point there was a trophy goat herd up in Northland, just about pure wild angora. I shot a billy near Ohura that just sneaks into record books. 30” tip to tip and each horn is 30” around the...
Liked On: 04-10-2021, 11:53 PM
There are about 6 pages on the BSA models I could put on this section if members are interested but will take a bit of room to do so. May help with a lot of queries regarding models, dates etc....
Liked On: 02-10-2021, 09:59 AM
My wife loved my 270 Sako 75 Finnlight with the 110g TTSX & they were accurate 14-16mm for 3 shot group & mild to shoot, so we took it as my back up rifle to my usual EDC a Mountain Rifle in 06,for...
Liked On: 02-10-2021, 09:56 AM
The newest arrival to the growing collection, 180253 T3x Hunter (in 243) with a Leica ER5 3-15x56 on top and a DPT can hanging off the end, and a limbsaver I had lying around.
Liked On: 02-10-2021, 06:09 AM