mature mallard drakes are awesome spoonies are gorgous but that woody is just the dogs bollocks:(
Liked On: 26-09-2022, 06:18 PM
They would be 100%awesome to see on ellesmere .even if we had em protected to give em time to build up a decent population. that colouring is nature at its grandest eh!
Liked On: 26-09-2022, 06:18 PM
43836 . They are in the BOP too, small numbers on the Wairoa River just north of Tauranga.
Liked On: 26-09-2022, 06:18 PM
Inside 300yds, just point at centre of sholder,scope dailed 2.5 moa.Bang flop,no maths or charts required.Very colourfully charts tho for sizes of deer.
Liked On: 26-09-2022, 06:15 PM
Going back too when I started. There wasn't dial uo scopes or range finders about. Think you're over complicating things. Graham Henry's rule of 3 for flat shooting guns , like 270 etc worked well....
Liked On: 26-09-2022, 06:14 PM
Exactly MD, while my go-to rifles have been Sako it was because I wanted quality that would last a lifetime, not to impress others, mind you my ex freezing works hunting gear certainly wouldn’t...
Liked On: 26-09-2022, 05:17 PM
Answers 1. Only you can answer that as its actually " good enough for YOUR purposes 2. See above 3. See above In my job I often see people spend an absolute fortune on the stuff that makes it...
Liked On: 26-09-2022, 04:31 PM
Questions to ask... 1. How expensive must one go for "good enough"? 2. At what cost level does "diminishing returns" set in? 3. Are these the right questions?
Liked On: 26-09-2022, 04:31 PM
Good gear is nice, and you don't appreciate it inless you start at the bottom. Poor students, with hugh loans they moan about driving late model Audis etc --- start at the top and you don't...
Liked On: 26-09-2022, 04:31 PM
Saw this on farcebook. Not mine but be nice to see him get home. Posted in this thread as I thought more people would see it compared to dogs section. 206624
Liked On: 25-09-2022, 09:05 PM
All but 2 of my rifles are second hand wood and blue. Most well under a grand. Two new ones, one was an $850 Rossi, the other a $950 Ruger..but I love seeing and handling new kit and if buying it...
Liked On: 25-09-2022, 04:56 PM
There seems to be a trend these days with many new hunters who think they,re going to shoot deer at say 600 meters with their .308 or similar powered cartridge and subsequently mount some huge Hubble...
Liked On: 25-09-2022, 04:55 PM
What I was referring to is not so much the matter of a new hunter buying a high magnification scope; more so that the idea that shooting a deer at 600m is easy pie because they have seen it on TV or...
Liked On: 25-09-2022, 04:54 PM
To be fair I have fucked around with most die set ups, concetricity Guage and neck turning. What I have worked out is an amp annealer is my freind. My trusty tikka 6 5x55( third barrel) I have used...
Liked On: 25-09-2022, 04:49 PM
I use mainly Hornady dies with their included exanders, you do need to polish the expanders well to make resizing easy. To many people spent a lot of time doing stuff that really does not help...
Liked On: 25-09-2022, 04:46 PM