Mine wasn't 100% reliable. The safety flopped around under recoil, blocking the bolt and therefore unable to open the action and reload quickly. I taped it forward when hunting and just ran it with...
Liked On: 27-11-2022, 08:02 PM
I have some excellent examples of .303 rifles in my collection including two pristine Parker Hale standard sporters (No1 and No4). Sadly I cannot focus on front sights anymore, and I have absolutely...
Liked On: 27-11-2022, 08:01 PM
Just spent an hour loading up some military ball for my old SMLE. It has a like-new barrel on it and shoots very well, my eyes are getting too old to shoot with open sights like I used to, but I can...
Liked On: 27-11-2022, 07:58 PM
"Many will wonder why I bother with an old relic" People have often said that about me..... :D
Liked On: 27-11-2022, 07:56 PM
Greetings bumblefoot and all, A nice calm day today so I finally got to do a rough sight in on my latest new to me .303. As reported earlier in another thread the rifle was given to me by a friend...
Liked On: 27-11-2022, 07:56 PM
My Long Tom sporter204262
Liked On: 27-11-2022, 07:55 PM
Dads sporterised Long Tom. Bolt and action numbers match, but has been rebarreled. 204240 In use ‘55 I think, Fiordland. Going by the wood, it’s the center rifle. 204241
Liked On: 27-11-2022, 07:55 PM
Took the 106-year old girl out for a walk the other day. Been a heap of pigs out, but think the pig hunters beat me to them. Waited til dark, but no luck. Nice to take the rifle for another walk...
Liked On: 27-11-2022, 07:54 PM
@MB, this is my nightmare, but also, I imagine, my fate. Like you, at 8 years old I was completely obsessed with fishing. Far more so than my father, uncles, or anyone else in the family. My dad was...
Liked On: 17-11-2022, 08:44 PM
I wouldn't worry about it. This generation of kids are different to ours. They have different forms of entertainment, social interaction and things to worry about. Like gonetropo I have spent 1000s...
Liked On: 17-11-2022, 08:42 PM
reading that...yip I see younguns angle..... you have said it fishing before games,so the return from service is I DONT LIKE FISHING.... nope thats not what was said..its what you heard..but not...
Liked On: 17-11-2022, 08:40 PM
i spent 4000 hours plus just on duke nukem 3d (inc expansion packs etc) i still went hunting, never got into fishing that much though may a suggest you get one of those glue on packs for x box play...
Liked On: 17-11-2022, 08:40 PM
Most young people do When I was a young whipper snapper me and the brother were always hanging around with the Neighbour kids Eelling and trying to catch small fish in little muddy creek or...
Liked On: 17-11-2022, 08:39 PM
That's pretty much how I spent my own childhood, rock hopping in search of that elusive monster. Usually alone, or with mates from quite a young age. If I had the opportunities my boy has, I'd have...
Liked On: 17-11-2022, 08:38 PM
The old man used to drag me and my brother rock hopping around Whatapu/Cornwallis etc... from when I was about 6. Hopping from 1 rock to another while carrying a 13 foot surfcaster does wonders for...
Liked On: 17-11-2022, 08:38 PM