The firearm thread

**Hinny** · 31st August 2009, 19:22

Originally Posted by twistemotion

I don't understand your post Hinny. Zebras are large wild animals. Lambs are small livestock.

It would be as exciting as shooting horses. Oh Yay!
Stalk a zebra - yeah right. Drive to within sixty metres and shoot it. Oh Great White Pukka Sahib.
The thrill may simply be in seeing an animal die. I imagine it is the same for those demented souls that slaughter lambs. That is not an infrequent occurrence.

Compare that kill to say an N.Z. high country Thar hunt. Eight to ten hour climb to a spotted animal, 600yd shot yada yada

Shooting a zebra would be more like shooting fish in a barrel.

**geoffm** · 31st August 2009, 20:50

Originally Posted by jono035

That'd be damn awesome mate.

RM: I've already volunteered you as carry-bitch, sorry

Any ideas on what would make good target sizes guys? Smaller is probably better for the centerfires because a 600mm diameter round target at 12mm thick is 30kg of steel...

What about 600mm, 300mm, 150mm diameter circles in 12mm thickness for the 100m end? Would that stand up to a .308 or the Mosin?
Maybe a few small ones for .22s at the middle distance, 300mm, 100mm perhaps? These could probably be something like that plate RM brought along, 2mm or something?

What would be good ones to have for the 600m range chris? Also a couple of targets in 8mm for things like chris' lever action could be fun too?

Round would look best but square would probably be easiest and involve the least offcut metal, any thoughts?

Painting could be nice too.

7.62x39 goes through 8-10mm steel wihtout slowing down. 0.223 puts a crater in it. For 22LR, almost anything will do.
So have we got any takers for a working bee and donations for steel?
Geoff

**jono035** · 31st August 2009, 21:04

Originally Posted by geoffm

7.62x39 goes through 8-10mm steel wihtout slowing down. 0.223 puts a crater in it. For 22LR, almost anything will do.
So have we got any takers for a working bee and donations for steel?
Geoff

I can donate the time and a reasonable amount of money (the rest I'm going to steal from Indy's wallet), it is mostly the tools and some way of actually getting my hands on some decent steel that I need

Indy: Going to go down to reloaders and have a chat with them tomorrow afternoon, did you get your setup from stock or have to get it in? I'm not too worried either way because I have to find some timber and make myself a bench first...

Hinny: I get your point but do you really think the strangest thing about your average american redneck is a desire to shoot a Zebra?

**Indiana_Jones** · 31st August 2009, 21:09

Originally Posted by jono035

Indy: Going to go down to reloaders and have a chat with them tomorrow afternoon, did you get your setup from stock or have to get it in? I'm not too worried either way because I have to find some timber and make myself a bench first...

I got my set up from stock, though they didn't have a .303 die as a wanted so got a 7.62x54R instead.

they also didn't have .311 projectiles >_< but I wasn't sure which ones i needed and got them later when I was.

Everything else they have

Pick yourself up a nice MN while you're there

-Indy

**jono035** · 31st August 2009, 21:18

Originally Posted by Indiana_Jones

Pick yourself up a nice MN while you're there

That's disturbingly tempting I have to say... Of course, that means I need more gun rack space and thus the problems start...

For the same price I'm thinking a lead casting rig could be the mutt's proverbials given that projectiles seem to be about half the cost of reloading for pistols...

Maybe you should get hold of a cast for a gas-checked lead projectile for that thing and cast a few? The cost of jacketed projectiles is insanity...

Edit: Found a forum post from a guy using 160grain projectiles at 2400fps that have been quenched after being cast from wheel weight lead... Out of one of the Lee moulds so not that spendy at all...

**Indiana_Jones** · 31st August 2009, 21:25

Go on father...

-Indy

**wbks** · 31st August 2009, 21:26

Nice. So where do you guys shoot outdoors? Just private land or is there a range around here?

**Indiana_Jones** · 31st August 2009, 21:27

Originally Posted by wbks

Nice. So where do you guys shoot outdoors? Just private land or is there a range around here?

We goto Mr. Merde's place more often then not.

AKA 'The range'

-Indy

**frogfeaturesFZR** · 31st August 2009, 21:34

Indy. that is a bloody nice looking rifle. I take it you've refinished the woodwork ?

**Indiana_Jones** · 31st August 2009, 21:45

Originally Posted by frogfeaturesFZR

Indy. that is a bloody nice looking rifle. I take it you've refinished the woodwork ?

Nope, that's how I got it.

-Indy

**Indiana_Jones** · 31st August 2009, 21:47

And the other two...

Will try to do the stock on the 'Sniper' 91/30 sometime after I move flats this month coming.

-Indy

**Wolf** · 31st August 2009, 22:42

That sniper model looks great, dude. A trifle green with envy, here.

Careful that some pillock doesn't decide the bayonets make the others look too scary, eh.