The firearm thread

[jono035]

Anyone doing the easter bunny shoot this year?

[sAsLEX]

Anyone doing the easter bunny shoot this year?

I think we should look to put a group together for next year!

[The Pastor]

I think we should look to put a group together for next year!

you need a few quads or at least utes dont you?

[Swoop]

Did anybody else hear the rock this morning? The interview with the inventor of the "bed bunker" was entertaining.

Had to go and research what the product was that he was talking about.

[The Pastor]

so last hunting trip i went on, i didnt fire my rifle.

being stainless, i thought it'd be ok to chuck in its box without cleaning it.

WRONG. Pulled it out last night and there is rust everywhere!

I'll get a photo tonight, Just a word of warning, always clean your rifle, and put a very light coat of oil over all parts before storage.

[Flip]

Anyone doing the easter bunny shoot this year?

Just got back, Team Bastard strikes again. Did very well considering the nature of the property.

[Drunken Monkey]

so last hunting trip i went on, i didnt fire my rifle.

being stainless, i thought it'd be ok to chuck in its box without cleaning it.

WRONG. Pulled it out last night and there is rust everywhere!

I'll get a photo tonight, Just a word of warning, always clean your rifle, and put a very light coat of oil over all parts before storage.

Pic?

Very interested to see the result. I have been moving away from blued to parkerized/stainless FA's because I'm lazy and my storage isn't humidity controlled. I notice I still have to keep a cursory eye on them, they do last longer without interim maintenance than blued, but they aren't maintenance free.

[jono035]

Yeah, it's pretty dependent on the type of steel used. When it does rust, it does so more slowly and doesn't seem to do the rust-flake-rust more that plain steel does.

One thing to watch is stainless parts resting against steel parts (trigger internals, bolt, suppressor etc.) because any moisture will corrode it, but it'd have to be pretty well drenched...

My Stirling stainless bolt action .22 has never exactly looked perfect in the finish department, but I don't think I've cleaned it more than once a year, and definitely not after every damp trudge through the bush...

[The Pastor]

pics didnt turn out good enough to see the rust. but yeah gotta clean it. Took my rifle for a swim on the weekend....

[Monsterbishi]

The main issue is that this is so dependent on the individual inspector and there is very little recourse. I've heard tell of one local AO who refuses to allow the use of Ramset bolts, chemsets have to be used regardless of whether they're appropriate or not.

The AO doesn't have much say in the matter when POL67N Clearly states that expanding bolts are fine to use when setting E-cat safes(and one would assume, anything lesser) into concrete.

[jono035]

The AO doesn't have much say in the matter when POL67N Clearly states that expanding bolts are fine to use when setting E-cat safes(and one would assume, anything lesser) into concrete.

Well, all he has to say is that he doesn't think that expanding bolts are usually enough and that he only approves chemsets. Whether this is right or not, most people will still go and use chemsets. For most people, their AO is someone they're going to have to deal with every time they want to get a new firearm on their B/C/E and so they probably don't want to antagonise the guy. I also remember the process being quite daunting when I started out, although I'm a bit jaded about the whole thing now...

Basically, even if the guy approves every dynabolt he sees, saying that he only approves chemsets is misleading enough to be an issue.

[Timber020]

I think we should look to put a group together for next year!

I got on a team this year who were there last year and we didnt get a block even after we had paid up and registered months before. didnt tell us until a few days before the shoot (they dropped 15 teams this year). Airfare wasted.

[Flip]

I got on a team this year who were there last year and we didnt get a block even after we had paid up and registered months before. didnt tell us until a few days before the shoot (they dropped 15 teams this year). Airfare wasted.

It pays to have another back up property organised if you are coming down for this hunt.

The organisers have been having problems with some teams, eg leaving gates open, a year ago a road gate was left open and a mob of sheep and some road users Prado was cleaned up when the stock got out. I know that Dave say they will black list people and teams if there is a problem.

On another topic the Firearms inspector visited the workshop and he was more than happy with the security, however his boss in Dunedin still won't let me leave the safe in the workshop because she believes premsis and residence are the same thing. Is there anybody I can contact at HO about this?

[avgas]

A suppressed .22 on maggies is just the job. Get a magpie distress tape and play it via speakers with a goodly amount of speaker cable to add distance from the shooter to the speaker.
Loads of fun to be had!

Your doing better than me. I got so frustrated with them I ended up running up to them and 20 gauging them from about 5-10m.

[Swoop]

Your doing better than me. I got so frustrated with them I ended up running up to them and 20 gauging them from about 5-10m.

I love the expression on their face.

When you get two of them together and pop one = 1 now laying on the ground.
The head of the other comes up and there is something akin to "Barry! What are you doing laying down! Stand up for goodness sake, the neighbours are watching. Whatever will they say! Ooh! I now feel like laying down as well..."

If real life had "speech bubbles".