Speed limit in NZ is usually 100kph, 90 towing, so the Patrol is quite happy maintaining the legal speed limit. Blowing 50+ K on a 4x4 that does 3 or so L/100km less than the old Patrol (that...
Liked On: 22-01-2024, 10:39 PM
Posts #3, 13 & 14 answered the question well.
Liked On: 22-01-2024, 10:34 PM
Don’t buy an old Mauser, old Sako etc that needs work until you have the bug bad. Get a modern reliable rifle and use it. Range and field. Modern, proven, not bubba’d up ie later model tikka, Sako,...
Liked On: 22-01-2024, 10:32 PM
Barry the hunter, see posts #9 and #40 by Hugh. You obviously don't share Hugh's safety concern and my comments on that were not aimed at you. But if we're talking about your original post, go to...
Liked On: 22-01-2024, 10:31 PM
Strange to even mention Mauser feeds, it’s really what one gets used to. Lions dependant obviously. I for one would put my hand up for something like a Tikka 308.
Liked On: 22-01-2024, 10:29 PM
Hikmicro fq35. Makes my pulsar xq38 look a bit average
Liked On: 22-01-2024, 06:29 AM
Helo John,you say you are intending to hunt Canterbury and the West Coast so a lot of different hunting scenarios there, heavy bush, slips, river beds and open country, and a big variety in animal...
Liked On: 22-01-2024, 06:23 AM
I posted this as the second post on the thread - and here we are , two pages later - sharing our personal preferances and prejudices and getting shitty with each other . I feel sorry for the...
Liked On: 21-01-2024, 09:06 PM
Once the rifle is sorted, then hunt some goats. Good practice, and easier than deer. Get some runs on the board, practice your butchery so when you get a deer you're confident. +1 for getting a...
Liked On: 21-01-2024, 09:06 PM
Just playing around with a new thermal I got. 242118
Liked On: 21-01-2024, 09:03 PM
Trout Don't worry; I give away the majority of my meat, eggs and veges to folk who need it! I just posted it because it was an interesting vid..... And... nice to see something on mainstream tv that...
Liked On: 21-01-2024, 08:23 PM
When I got back to the farm I'm looking after in the Wairarapa at 1am this morning with the 2 deer it was still 23c so I broke them down to go in the fridge. Too hot to leave them hanging for the...
Liked On: 21-01-2024, 06:34 PM
Too hot here to leave meat very long I have a 12v Dometic fridge/freezer in the Ute and get the best cuts to it as fast as I can Then I lie in the creek for 30 mins :)
Liked On: 21-01-2024, 06:33 PM
He’s missed out I’m afraid Hugh.. but the Mauser would have been a cracker of a first rifle! Fortunately I’m also about to chuck my tikka 270 bushpig and the buy and sell too.. be a cracking first...
Liked On: 21-01-2024, 03:51 PM
Couple of grass thieves last evening. 77TMK 237 yds. After dusk and shooting light but fine with the Arken NV in daytime mode. 242055 242056
Liked On: 21-01-2024, 03:48 PM