Best thing I brought was a 223 and putting a bunch more rounds through it than normal.
Liked On: 01-01-2025, 07:07 PM
Went out with me mate that has access to a good local property for a morning hunt. We checked all the normal spots but come up empty handed. On the way out we checked a spot close to a Swede paddock...
Liked On: 01-01-2025, 07:03 PM
many specials are fitted with scopes they cant sell - I see all to often a special and look thru the scope and its one of those horrible bloody things with a multitude of little bars bloody awfull ...
Liked On: 31-12-2024, 11:35 PM
One thing in your favour if you buy secondhand is that for no good reason that I can ascertain, 270 is slightly out of fashion Great cartridge but marketing bollocks has deemed other things newer...
Liked On: 31-12-2024, 11:35 PM
Some more 62gr Makers, and the last of some part boxes of 73gr Hammer Hunters and 75gr Gold Dots for the 223AI. 265968 Rifle seems to shoot everything to just about the same POI @ 100m which is...
Liked On: 31-12-2024, 01:40 PM
Bit more risk potentially, but second hand options often offer much better value. I got my howa 1500 around two years ago, scope and suppressed for $1k. Apparently a "box of ammo" through it....
Liked On: 31-12-2024, 10:35 AM
Just stick to your plan. Get a 270. 95% of hunters in NZ are using suppresors now anyhow so the "oh but they kick hard" argument is a mute point, and most the people who say they'll kick the shit out...
Liked On: 31-12-2024, 09:11 AM
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Liked On: 30-12-2024, 05:48 PM
Dad took me when I was a kid to old hangar they used to fly their venison into back in the 70s and I remember there was old empty cans of flyspray all piled up in one corner. "Whats with all the fly...
Liked On: 30-12-2024, 11:51 AM
Learn something every day, vinegar, cheers fellas
Liked On: 30-12-2024, 07:10 AM
DOC regard them as taboo. Have heard sometimes they send teams in to dismantle a few that have sprung up but I don't think their budgets cover more frequent missions so they might not be winning the...
Liked On: 30-12-2024, 07:03 AM
I was looking back through my diary and I saw that I shot my first two deer this year in the Ruahines off Topgrass Road, so thought it would be a good idea to finish the year the same way. I...
Liked On: 29-12-2024, 02:45 PM
Greetings, Many years ago I shot a blowfly at 90 metres on the old Roy's Hill Range. My .308 was fitted with a 2.5 power scope so I was oblivious to my feat. I was made aware of it later by the...
Liked On: 29-12-2024, 11:07 AM
G’day, I’m Harvey 36, from Auckland. Been shooting since I was 5. Was introduced by my dad, he was one of the old boys from the 60’s who built and shot from the purpose built Gun-Boats on the Firth...
Liked On: 29-12-2024, 07:45 AM
Hi im luke 17, im living in Christchurch been around guns since i was young(grandad and others), new to hunting recently got my firearms license aswell as my dad and have been trying to get my first...
Liked On: 29-12-2024, 07:45 AM