Here is the stag i shot early march last year. 112470112471[ATTACH]112473[/ATTACH
Liked On: 02-06-2019, 11:42 AM
As above. You need to thin down or sharpen the web using the corner of your grinding wheel. Takes a bit of practice but once you have mastered it you can drill some pretty big holes with no pilot....
Liked On: 02-06-2019, 09:41 AM
the cutting faces need to be 180 degrees from each other (parrallel), they also need to be the same length diagonally and the same angle use the corner of your grinding wheel to take some of the...
Liked On: 02-06-2019, 09:41 AM
The tongue / web sometimes gets thicker as the drill is shortened, use a bigger pilot hole ?
Liked On: 02-06-2019, 09:40 AM
Ahh yes, the 7mm08 also known as the 'poor mans 270' Just knowing that you have dreamt of owning a 270 would cause the heart of a timid young Tahr to stop !!!
Liked On: 02-06-2019, 09:38 AM
The truth about all of the posts above is that you're not likely to need a third to half of the gear listed on a good day in the boonies. BUT If you've slipped and fractured your wrist, night...
Liked On: 01-06-2019, 08:06 PM
As I’m new here too, found this tread very helpful also. Thanks guys
Liked On: 01-06-2019, 12:39 PM
Get yourself trained in a trade such as Fitting and Turn, Fitter Welder, Tool Maker etc. The rest will follow once the foundation skills behind being a Gun Smith are learnt and practiced. Good...
Liked On: 31-05-2019, 11:31 PM
Ok if using a topo map, but not accurate enough at sea
Liked On: 31-05-2019, 09:11 PM
Didn't know Deer wore goretex.
Liked On: 31-05-2019, 06:00 PM
That's a superb photo of Ryan at the lake. Well worth getting your local photo print shop to enlarge to A4 size and stick it in a frame. Photo's like that don't come along very often.
Liked On: 31-05-2019, 11:14 AM
I really don't remember whether I was making a sound -- though I could have been (the pig certainly was); all I was thinking was "bacon and sausage -- bacon and sausage -- IT MUST NOT ESCAPE!!!!" ...
Liked On: 30-05-2019, 09:08 PM
Couple weeks ago my boy and me decided to try spot x for a deer and sure enough spot x proved to be successful.112375
Liked On: 30-05-2019, 08:51 PM
Haven't been in the hills since end of April. Have been hunting the Tararuas for a while. began at school in the early 60s, tramping, then got 303 at 14 or so, and carted that around, eventually...
Liked On: 29-05-2019, 10:31 PM
went for interview with safari guide 20 something years back...he had fallow in port hills way back then looking through his photo album saw photo of big "free range " stag...... I mentioned that I...
Liked On: 29-05-2019, 08:52 PM