Interesting, never had a blued rifle rust as readily as the howa, kinda defeats the point of paying extra for stainless for extra corrosion resistance.
Liked On: 30-06-2021, 09:55 AM
It seems you need to passivate (https://www.finishing.com/466/18.shtml) the stainless steel parts. Basically boiling the stainless steel part in a citric acid solution. It removes rust and it...
Liked On: 30-06-2021, 09:45 AM
Almost in this mob at 44. Reading hamsav s life story really makes one feel pretty grateful of the 'safe' life I have had so far. Just had minor knee surgery 6 weeks ago for a meniscus tear back in...
Liked On: 29-06-2021, 10:12 PM
My turn, I am 59, going to be 60 later this year. Grew up hunting and shooting, first job out of school I was a rabbitter ( like a few on here). Life jogs on and then at 51, bit of a hurdle....
Liked On: 29-06-2021, 10:10 PM
find OLD Nosler manual....Ive got 2nd and third editions.......Nick Harvey early manuals now you DONT WANT THESE FOR LOAD DATA.....sure you can use it for double checking etc you want it for the...
Liked On: 28-06-2021, 09:45 AM
Long as I'm erect I'm good to go...even if its slowly...
Liked On: 28-06-2021, 09:38 AM
I'm 85kg wet the only advice I can give to keeping the weight down is get used to feeling hungry you wont die...
Liked On: 27-06-2021, 08:33 AM
I was the same at your age MD - then Father Time slowly did a number on my body - now that Im almost 20 years older than you I need glasses, one ear hears better than the other (too much unsupressed...
Liked On: 26-06-2021, 10:17 PM
middle agers 45-60 turned 49 the other week,still get out once a month....darn work.... still carry odd deer out whole (bone out the even ones) enjoy the time on hill more than the kill these...
Liked On: 26-06-2021, 10:16 PM
It amazes me that you are amazed. You should know by now that when you have two shooters, for any given topic, there will be at least three opinions! ;)
Liked On: 26-06-2021, 04:13 PM
With you there mate. Its good for the fish but there needs to be a balance. I think a rooster system could be good too, close some reefs for x years, open them up and close the other reefs for x...
Liked On: 25-06-2021, 08:55 AM
It is grim on the face of it. IMO the right of citizens to harvest a natural food source for personal family consumption should be sacrosanct. Certainly there may be sensible constraints on quantity...
Liked On: 25-06-2021, 08:54 AM
Seems now that Tauranga pushed the closures of many coastal reefs through under the RMA we will see a flood of this activity across NZ. This one is a big one, at least they banned commercial...
Liked On: 25-06-2021, 08:54 AM
The biggest issue is that local councils have the power to close what is a national resource. Its a fkn joke.
Liked On: 25-06-2021, 08:54 AM
Smoke and mirrors politics. It's harder to pin accountability on a multiple councils and issues like this get lost between bureaucracy and other proceedings. For the record, I'm all for no take zones...
Liked On: 25-06-2021, 08:53 AM