270709 I finally get to post in one of these threads! First stag for the pup too. Very chuffed 170m with the 308 150gr SST
Liked On: 16-03-2025, 04:45 PM
My sister's rifle I've been playing around with. She bought it all new and gunstore set it up for her with a rail and rings that had the scope up stupidly high, it also had a really long suppresor on...
Liked On: 04-02-2025, 08:11 AM
My 10 year old was given a Tikka M55 in .243 for his birthday back in June. He lives and breathes deer stalking and has shot 6 to date . Fair play to him he doesn't want to shoot " easy farm deer" ....
Liked On: 19-12-2024, 02:15 PM
With great anticipation my mate Reuben and I shouldered our packs for the long grind up the Apiti track for three nights away. With trusty dog Finn in tow complete with his own pack, off we went into...
Liked On: 14-11-2024, 02:11 PM
There is nothing out of fashion about a skinny 130 grain 7mm bullet at 3100 fps. If we invented it today it would be a wonder hit. Marketing would call it the .277 Precision Annihilator. Delta...
Liked On: 13-11-2024, 11:38 AM
The open tussock land of Waiouru got an absolute pasting from soldiers that could make more from selling a couple of deer shot during the weekend, than they were making from their salary as a...
Liked On: 23-05-2024, 06:45 PM
Yep, back about 1995 I built one on a medium action BSA Hunter, though it was an Ackley Improved version. Would send 100gr Hornady or Nosler BT out at just over 3300fps with 2213. I tried 115gr BTs...
Liked On: 04-03-2024, 07:50 AM
Second week of the school holidays I took my son for an adventure up the Rangitata river chasing tahr . We caught the ferry then drove,and stayed the night in the old mesopotamia schoolhouse, then...
Liked On: 17-10-2023, 08:27 AM
Just back from 3 nights away. Had a good trip. Over 40 deer seen and three shot. Charlie has been desperate to shoot his first. To his credit he was adamant it had to be on doc land and not a farm...
Liked On: 02-10-2023, 08:49 AM
Hi Team, Here's a vid I put together of a trip I did this year, April 10-11-12th into Lake Katherine, Fiordland. https://youtu.be/8FzoTB7ZoOs?si=aUoj9u4wFbyu1wjg Enjoy Tim
Liked On: 21-08-2023, 04:30 PM
It's not a hunting trip if he doesn't bust out the mincer in the middle of nowhere
Liked On: 06-06-2023, 08:44 AM
Got this 12 on saturday morning. 350 yard shot with the old faithful 300wm dropped him on the spot. 2 of his mates took off up the ridge but they got away. Pretty happy hes my best head in 18 years...
Liked On: 16-05-2023, 01:54 PM
Took my boys out for a overnighter last night, and we got this fella right on dark. Boys spotted him before me, he came trotting in on us so it was pretty exciting! Gutted him in the dark, to go back...
Liked On: 21-04-2023, 10:17 AM
Went to the Arawhata for the second period. One of our group got both the biggest trout and the oldest stag I ever saw. Rabbits for Africa. Nasty sandflies. Two days of enforced rest in a small tent...
Liked On: 18-04-2023, 12:29 PM
After a quick catch up with Pengy and veitnamcam yesterday, the talk of hunting got me all keen so I decided to go out for a quick overnighter. Early on in the trip (about half an hour after I left...
Liked On: 02-03-2023, 01:21 PM