Absolutely, a benchrest will take (lack of) steadiness out of the equation. A rolled up jacket over the bonnet doesn't cut it..
Liked On: 01-11-2021, 07:04 PM
Back home from Mason hut, windy and a bit of rough weather .No feed around, very low numbers of deer, Animals are small and look like rabbits at 300 metres .Deer in winter coats also hard to see....
Liked On: 31-10-2021, 04:30 PM
Hi, Found this thread seaching for a Korthals in AUS or NZ. To anyone interested we will be having a Litter of Korthals Pointers here in Hawaii in the next Year. No Rabies here so it would be a...
Liked On: 31-10-2021, 04:25 PM
Hi all New to the forum. Agonised over the name until my loving partner came for a hunt and I missed a perfectly good deer whilst shooting from a fence post as rest. And thus 'Missed From Post'...
Liked On: 29-10-2021, 06:47 PM
Just back from 3 days in the Kaimanawas, hunting valley sides around the 1200 meter mark. The animals were coming out pretty much bang on 6pm, then spending 1-2 hours feeding their way down through...
Liked On: 28-10-2021, 06:31 PM
Well finally after a week and a half my brass turned up. I decided to weigh the Starline to see I it was similar to the Sako brass I have been using for my work up....I wish I hadn't. The Sako...
Liked On: 28-10-2021, 05:43 PM
Moved to Oz at the last window to get here and forgot my password , After an email from NZHS I have managed to login. Have been for a hunt very different rules here ,shoot roo and a fox .Can't get...
Liked On: 28-10-2021, 07:17 AM
A little while ago I brought a March Scope off the forum here. I had taken a little while to get it up and running as I had also run out of my previous load for my .284. So i mounted the scope,...
Liked On: 25-10-2021, 05:38 PM
Ingrid 51 I use 140 Amax. Still have about 100. Send them at 2830 fps out of a Schultz & Larsen. You are correct about penetration because 6.5 have a very high SD. Good old cup and core/soft...
Liked On: 25-10-2021, 04:05 PM
When lambing is over and some grass is growing 2 things happen - I'm allowed back into my farm spots and the cockies start complaining about the number of deer they are seeing. So last Thursday I...
Liked On: 25-10-2021, 04:04 PM
Dave would be getting on a bit now but good call. I had a BSA Viscount 7x57 with one of his stocks, he modelled a few of his stocks off the early Sako shape. 181904
Liked On: 24-10-2021, 05:22 PM
I'm running the 153 Atip at just shy of 3000fps. Only have a sample of two so far a yearling red and a big spiker red. Yearling red broadside shot 160y....just kissed the shoulder meat but hit no...
Liked On: 24-10-2021, 05:19 PM
Spiker front on shot looking straight at me. Estimated 150y. Shot went threw osophagus and the hole in the chest where all the pipes come threw so the projectile hit nothing hard at all....took me...
Liked On: 24-10-2021, 05:18 PM
Very small sample but it seems to penetrate more than the amax before opening...I can't help wondering how it will go at more extended ranges....will it open? I'm new to 6.5 so maybe this not drop...
Liked On: 24-10-2021, 05:18 PM
Not about Atip but what you said about "drop on the spot" VCam. My experience is that the 6.5 can be a slow killer - especially at longer ranges. To drop deer with the 6.5 it seems to need to be ...
Liked On: 24-10-2021, 05:18 PM