I'm sure scope manufacturers and retailers love higher magnification scopes; more profit for them. Some of the youngsters I've come across who have a huge, heavy, high magnification Hubble type...
Liked On: 14-04-2020, 10:53 AM
Why chase a few extra ft/sec and wreck brass and barrel life? My 6.5 is running at 2,800fps and kills shit very dead at 5, 6, 700m.
Liked On: 14-04-2020, 10:42 AM
Well maybe 10 posts and an introduction Make it 50 posts and they will clock them up being silly But a good idea in principle
Liked On: 14-04-2020, 10:42 AM
The main advantage the 6x45 offers over .223 is the availability of heavier and more suitable deer bullets. The .223 is still a great multi purpose cheap caetridge but the bullets on offer without...
Liked On: 14-04-2020, 10:36 AM
Have the reamer, built one, its fast, like a 26 Nosler, so is barrel wear :thumbsup:
Liked On: 14-04-2020, 10:28 AM
Thanks Mathias and Seventenths for good advice today ! Nice to have some spare time to follow things up. About feeding, I can feed 3 just fine. Always works. The manual says its 5 shots and they...
Liked On: 13-04-2020, 11:19 PM
The only regret I have after many years of doing some stupid things, is selling a custom 25-06 built on a VZ33 action and gifted to me. About 1990 I decided I needed to liquidate an asset or 2 to pay...
Liked On: 13-04-2020, 05:51 PM
Sorry to be so boring but.... https://www.nzhuntingandshooting.co.nz/f15/rifles-you-wish-you-never-sold-53986/
Liked On: 13-04-2020, 05:50 PM
Came across this article the other day in a 1977 Gun Digest book. Reading through the article it struck me that not much has changed with what the author found in his 6x45 and I've found in mine...
Liked On: 13-04-2020, 05:29 PM
The wobble is there whether its a 2 or 42 powder scope, you just can't see it with the 2 power scope :) I have found 14 max power is more than adequate on a hunting rifle out to & beyond 1000...
Liked On: 13-04-2020, 11:02 AM
Popcorn thread .... I've tried to standardise all my scopes to 3-12x. No doubt I, myself, can shoot better on animals if I can see them better. I'm just more critical about where the crosshair...
Liked On: 13-04-2020, 11:01 AM
Now here we have a classic NZHS case of a thread getting so far from the original topic is mind blogging. How did we get from this to this ?136052136053. Firstly in veitnamcam defense he has the...
Liked On: 13-04-2020, 10:55 AM
One less eating my crops, Did a long shot of 680meters with the new saum to see how it would go. Dealt to it no problems walked about 20m and expired. 136051
Liked On: 13-04-2020, 10:49 AM
The Duley's have an excellent hunting ethic, they go out of their way to make a top TV show from their adventures. And they are pretty switched on regarding game management, the whole hunting scene,...
Liked On: 13-04-2020, 10:37 AM
I've been fortunate enough to be in on a few hundred tahr kills and can assure you that a 6.5 is ample. As has been said above, shot placement is the most important, regardless of calibre. And dont...
Liked On: 12-04-2020, 08:56 PM