I use hunting bullets for my service rifle comps. Mind you using open sights you couldn't tell the difference
Liked On: 01-07-2021, 08:55 PM
And some of the old style flat base SP projectiles can very easy to getting shooting accurately. Sure they don’t have a flash BC but out to 300 yards who cares.
Liked On: 01-07-2021, 08:54 PM
Sadly we dont have a choice how or when we die in our life time, but what we do have the option of is how we choose to live it.
Liked On: 30-06-2021, 04:33 PM
That is how I think now and like a few others on this thread I've been through the mill in regards to health issues,heart etc,old news now. At one time I had convinced myself that that was that and...
Liked On: 30-06-2021, 04:33 PM
I like to think of it the other way around: "so long as I stay hunting I'll keep in reasonable health":thumbs::thumbs::thumbs:
Liked On: 30-06-2021, 04:32 PM
71 this year. Still getting out chasing pigs with the dogs etc. once a week. A bit slower than the young ones getting to the bail . Carried a hind out the other day (100m to the truck) haha.,...
Liked On: 30-06-2021, 04:32 PM
171238 My old man dirtying his wagon. Two nephew’s in tow. He’s 74 now and still keener than useless young me. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
Liked On: 30-06-2021, 04:31 PM
70 plus Tahr must be to :) heading away for a week in the Tararuas next week, got go for longer now, takes longer get there and back
Liked On: 30-06-2021, 04:30 PM
75 in September: I no longer carry a full carcase out, but bone out the meat and take most of it. Still get a few back twinges from carrying a monster red hind (skinned) out of the Hopuruahine many...
Liked On: 30-06-2021, 04:30 PM
three weeks off 72 and still doing what I did when I was 40
Liked On: 30-06-2021, 04:29 PM
65 and my hunting now seems to involve longer and steeper walks than my younger days although a bit slower. Love seeing animals and quite often don't worry about pulling the trigger
Liked On: 30-06-2021, 04:28 PM
Good. I do exercises with weights every day (2x5kg) - have been for the last 2 years. Keeps my upper body ok. I keep my hill fitness up by hunting in the hills. Last week I did 16km in 2 days...
Liked On: 30-06-2021, 04:28 PM
Greetings All, Turned 72 in April and for the last few months have been working on my fitness and mobility as previously reported. I think I am a bit fitter now than I was 20 years ago and...
Liked On: 30-06-2021, 04:27 PM
Will be 70 in a few months - 63 years of NZ hunting and in earlier times comp shooting. VERY busy with shooting in last 15 years. Little quieter this year with declining varmint numbers in Cantab,...
Liked On: 30-06-2021, 04:26 PM
73 soon. Still loving it. Get out most weeks. Have to do some work-arounds to accomodate the old bod but can still do most things in moderation. You get used to enduring a bit of pain and...
Liked On: 30-06-2021, 04:25 PM