The firearm thread

[Herman Jelmet]

Mr Dai Sloe
I know both those men very well indeed > Greg is a neighbour of my girlfriend and Bill lives just up the road. Dargaville gun show on the weekend saw a mr One Eye in town for the day

[ManDownUnder]

Not bad for $103...

ooo good man. Want to try it on a Pukeko?

[jono035]

ooo good man. Want to try it on a Pukeko?

lol...

Gotta get some ammo for it, first

I doubt it's going to stay chambered for .303 for long though...

[Mr Merde]

Herman,

All three of these personas are great to know.

Tell Bill when you see him next to give me a call.

Tell him I am moving house

[Drunken Monkey]

Speaking of which, how are the plans for the new range/club trundling along?

My trigger finger is starting to get itchy again.

[Mr Merde]

Should hear something this week.

Still at the farm. Looks like the sale is going through soon. Will get everyone out for a last blast before we leave.

Chris

[jono035]

Just got around to finally pulling my Stirling 16P bolt-action .22 apart. I'd noticed that the paint was flaking off the trigger guard and it appeared to be some pretty rough looking aluminium underneath. When I got the stock of I found out that the lower was attached to the upper by two screws that went through lugs at the front and back of the lower and the back lug had completely broken off. As I was checking it out, the piece that was left of the lug broke off in my hands.

In short, be careful if you're looking at a Stirling bolt action. If the lower receiver looks painted rather than blued, run like hell.

[ManDownUnder]

Should hear something this week.

Still at the farm. Looks like the sale is going through soon. Will get everyone out for a last blast before we leave.

Chris

Please - that'd be great. I now have a couple of little people that may join us.

It was Ruben's 10th birthday, and little miss 7 (Mia) didn't want to be left behind - come and have a go. She is shooting JunkmanJoe's .22 (thanks dude - that's REALLY making some little people happy).

Something else to check - Ruben's finger. He turned 10 and on his journey to being a man he got a REAL pocket knife (on the bench with him)... and a REAL cut from it (under the plaster on his left index finger...). He also got 2 packets of .22 stingers (1640fps, 32gr .22lr... they're pretty impressive too)

[jono035]

Where was that photo taken, MDU? Looks like a neat little setup.

[ManDownUnder]

Where was that photo taken, MDU? Looks like a neat little setup.

That was NZ Deer Stalkers 25m range on Riverhead Road

It's a great setup and ther Range Officers there were brilliant helping the kids - making sure the rules were all obeyed at all times, but not making a big deal of it -kept it fun for them too.

[jono035]

That was NZ Deer Stalkers 25m range on Riverhead Road

It's a great setup and ther Range Officers there were brilliant helping the kids - making sure the rules were all obeyed at all times, but not making a big deal of it -kept it fun for them too.

Ah, cool. I'd love to take a look around out there, but the weird opening hours keep discouraging me...

Just got a reply back from an e-mail that I sent to ADI a few weeks ago regarding load data for .300 whisper.

They sent me back load data for 150gr to 220gr projectiles but only with AR2205 (no pistol powders) and all the loads are supersonic, even at the suggested starting loads...

I think someone has entirely missed the point of this cartridge, to be honest...

[EJK]

Today I got a $50 super cheap scope for my .177 air rifle. Its one of those thin ones (ugly maybe) but now the rifle looks like a Mosin-Nagant. I'm happy with that.
The scope is OK. Got it setted dead-center this afternoon and had fun taking down neighbour's apples

Fun fun!

[jono035]

Nice. Some of those cheaper scopes certainly seem pretty good value for money. Would be interesting to see how it holds zero while getting battered by an air rifle.

Just got back from spending the long weekend with my girlfriend's parents. I mentioned that I had bought a .303 to play with and he went and dug out a bunch of old ammo that he had lying around. He got rid of the rifle a while back and then found another box with some ammo in it.

There are 4 packs of 10 rounds of C.A.C ammo designated as Mk VII and dated 1928 in the original paper and string packaging. I'm not sure about the projectiles, they look like they might be aluminium jacketed possibly?

Also got 20 rounds of C.A.C ammo with similar bullets stamped as 1941 and 15 rounds of copper jacketed C.A.C ammo stamped 54 and 7 (I assume 1954 and Mk 7).

Also a leather belt and ammo pouch with an impression on the tip of the belt saying Martins Birmingham Ltd. 1900.

Anyone know anything about old ammo? I'd hate to end up using some that would be better appreciated by a collector.

[The Pastor]

the only good ammo is shot ammo

[Mr Merde]

Thought I would keep you all informed as to the sale of my place.

The deal will go through in the middle of March.

So this means that there will be at least one more shoot at the Onewhero gun club possibly two.

Start loading. Start putting together your targets (frying pans are too soft).

I've found a few boards of suitable size to double as targets or bases.

Chris