That's pretty crap advice for a young guys first gun mate
Liked On: 02-08-2014, 11:37 AM
223 is a good choice but you could always go to a 243. Least that way you can keep it for years and your son can still use it as his main rifle for deer and big stags . No recoil, easy to shoot and...
Liked On: 02-08-2014, 11:36 AM
A good sized spiker. 322 yards with the 243. http://i36.photobucket.com/albums/e44/Cottrill/IMG_0422_zps68075869.jpg (http://s36.photobucket.com/user/Cottrill/media/IMG_0422_zps68075869.jpg.html)...
Liked On: 02-08-2014, 11:34 AM
I just put mine in its pouch backwards, flap can't be opened so button can't be pressed.
Liked On: 02-08-2014, 10:16 AM
I think this is more a case of using the right projectile for the job than a reflection on the cartridge.
Liked On: 01-08-2014, 04:52 PM
Hi @upstalker, I got that because the places/shops I have around me didn't have it in any brand and I have a spare piccatiny rail. Listening all of the feedback you guys gave me I just bought...
Liked On: 31-07-2014, 09:39 PM
[QUOTE=Scribe;276070]27484 If you look at the top left hand corner of the Token Destruction Form there is an example of the worst type of bureaucracy. I was paid 7 dollars for every deer I shot...
Liked On: 31-07-2014, 09:35 PM
No calibre "knocks deer over". Write as much bull shit as you like about the .17 through to elephant guns. Fantasise about magnums, "quarter bores (WTF?)", 6mm or what ever. Its the shock to the...
Liked On: 31-07-2014, 09:32 AM
A fragile projectile out of a larger caliber at decent speed gives a lot more margin for error on a neck shot than 223, for instance a 130gr hp or 150 sst stoked up out of any half decent 30 cal...
Liked On: 30-07-2014, 11:08 AM
I took three fallow hinds over the weekend. Hit with 55gr zmax out of my AR. First one was hit straight in the head and went down before I heard the smack return, other two were shoulder hit and went...
Liked On: 30-07-2014, 10:17 AM
Hi res, Perhaps its time someone put a picture of a deer up here with the bullet strike area for a killing shot marked in red. We then would find that the target area is identical for a Trebble two...
Liked On: 30-07-2014, 09:45 AM
Believe me mate, coming from a time served Toolmaker, you are one hell of a machinist, thats some pretty intricate metalwork skills there Homebrew......
Liked On: 29-07-2014, 02:36 PM
27482 In the professional field of hunting. Bullet placement is of course the essence with these calibres as IS TRUE with every other calibre. An animal can only be so dead and a gut shot or leg...
Liked On: 29-07-2014, 02:28 PM
Last week I returned from our annual winter trip down to the Island. Once again we used the excellent services of Stewart Island Air and flew by fixed wing down to Doughboy Bay. We had booked the...
Liked On: 29-07-2014, 02:08 PM
Are there any 7mm users that don't rely on amaxs? Almost seems like a reason why not to buy a 7mm :yaeh am not durnk:
Liked On: 28-07-2014, 01:17 PM