When I was 16 I had a 8mm Mauser, and the scope didn't allow the original safety to be used so I used to carry it as the op suggests - uncocked and on a loaded chamber. That was fine until the day...
Liked On: 03-10-2022, 04:19 PM
I primarily hunt using a single shot rifle, so there is always "one up the spout". The rifle has a cocking hammer, but no safety. I hunt alone in the bush with this setup and only cock the rifle just...
Liked On: 03-10-2022, 04:18 PM
im generally a empty chamber, if im in the first in line shooter of the group, ill go semi ready, as soon as someone else is about to swap out, un chamber, and he semi ready. but thats only bush...
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Greetings Moa Hunter, To be clear I am not getting at you over this but the position you describe, with the round almost fully chambered and the bolt fully forward and a little down is NOT the half...
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Greetings Again, Further to my earlier post I thought I would share a little tale. The young stag in the photo was my first deer. Early one Saturday morning, many years ago, I was sneaking up the...
Liked On: 03-10-2022, 10:21 AM
I have had a lot of luck on the galloups butt monkey fly on my spin rod it has enough weight to cast without splitshot. 207235
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207223 Guilty as charged😄
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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...
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Mate n I shot two spikers on a river flat in haast a few years back...and there beside the carcasses was a third one who looked to have been shot a week earlier and not picked up.
Liked On: 02-10-2022, 10:42 PM
Poor young stag dying while attending his gals funeral!:D Well done Tahr. Have you got another dog on the way yet?
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I went for a hunt in the rain yesterday. Started at 4pm in the drizzle and ended up being poured on from 7pm to 9pm. But it didn't dampen my spirits. After about an our of hunting a finally spied...
Liked On: 02-10-2022, 10:41 PM
I have round chambered and bolt open /not closed... in 40 years of hunting Ive never had a bolt close unintentionally but have lost a few rounds as it came open... external hammer guns are easy,as is...
Liked On: 02-10-2022, 09:28 PM
I know many who USED to do this....I also know of a fella who dropped a 8mm mauser down a bank in that state,it fired taking off fingers on one hand and going through chest and out shoulder..... he...
Liked On: 02-10-2022, 09:27 PM
fark!!........i saw the title and thought moa had got someone pregnant !
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