Go the mighty pronghorn! I am still using mine regularly. It's nothing special but it works well enough to shoot pesties, and I am so used to it, that like comfy old slippers, any upgrade would...
Liked On: 23-04-2024, 08:55 PM
Got a new sako 708 I’ve been playing with. It shot sub moa with my old tikkas hand loads at 2705fps with the 140 bt. So I’m wanting a bit more speed so had a box of Barnes TTSx 120 gns sitting...
Liked On: 23-04-2024, 08:47 PM
Air conditioned meat.248621
Liked On: 23-04-2024, 08:28 PM
In the new world of Codgers,I managed to shoot my first deer.Only a big 6 month old fawn thru the neck at 120yds off my shooting stick.Seen a few deer some inside 600yds,some further.Last night never...
Liked On: 23-04-2024, 08:28 PM
I've also seen bird hunters usong dog coats on their dogs in water. Personally, I even remove collar from my dogs as any coat or collar cluld easily cause entrapment and drowning of dog amongst...
Liked On: 23-04-2024, 08:21 PM
My vizsla doesn't hunt in a coat (North Island hunting). But at night (at home as well in winter) I use a Swandri (blue checkered Jacket) and was using a puffer vest as well for sleeping. Because...
Liked On: 23-04-2024, 08:21 PM
41 Magnum 200 grain cast lead wadcutters or semi wad cutters perhaps? The cylinder shape might help at least starting them straight
Liked On: 23-04-2024, 08:07 PM
Yes that’s right….its wingman’s fault…. He led me down the rabbit hole. Using full brass cases now .444 and 9.3x74……and blown out .303 in the musket.
Liked On: 23-04-2024, 08:07 PM
Dont fill with expanding foam as its open cell and will get waterlogged. Found out the hard way with one my brother shot to see how close steel will put holes in .Turns out it was 15 m .....
Liked On: 23-04-2024, 12:32 PM
I bought some stands years ago -lost a few but ive used them as a rough template to make my own wirecoat hangers are cheapand useful Ive evern taken a few of those wire clothes drying racks...
Liked On: 23-04-2024, 12:31 PM
The charge wasn't the main reason for the recoil. It was the four steel weights needed to open a 3-4 metre square net at 20 metres, one 19x60mm cylindrical steel weight per barrel giving a total...
Liked On: 23-04-2024, 09:14 AM
no they were trucked or well trailered up there - but even though we all like deer it was a silly thing to do- it was never going to end well
Liked On: 23-04-2024, 09:13 AM
Its called predator free NZ but apparently includes possums, rabbits, goats and deer. While these are pests, they are not predators (despite DoCs photoshopping a possum with feathers in its...
Liked On: 23-04-2024, 09:13 AM
In the SI a 222/223 with 55gn plus projectiles will get the job done, I have shot a couple with my wife’s 17hmr but wouldn’t do it again, for a while I was using 243 with either 65/87gn vmaxs and it...
Liked On: 23-04-2024, 09:11 AM
Work is fishing kryptonite....to be avoided if at all possible. Unless the weather's shit...then work your arsenal off so you can Nick off when there's a good weather window.
Liked On: 23-04-2024, 09:08 AM