Be aware that it's lambing time, so not the best time of year to get access to farmland for shooting. Most farmers don't want their stock disturbed at this time of year. Best wait a few weeks.
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Be aware that it's lambing time, so not the best time of year to get access to farmland for shooting. Most farmers don't want their stock disturbed at this time of year. Best wait a few weeks.
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Why don't you have a yack with the NZ Army and see if you can use their range at Burnham?
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If you were as familiar with Sniper's five million or so posts as I am, you'd recall that he does, in fact, own a Barrett.Originally Posted by Hitcher
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I guess there's something comforting about standing behind a 50 calibre, or even the wimpier .416. Again, what one may wish to maim on the broad southern savannahs with a slug the size of a '63 VW Beetle, is beyond me. Especially since the recent "meteorite" unpredictably killed the panther...
"Standing on your mother's corpse you told me that you'd wait forever." [Bryan Adams: Summer of 69]
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Oh God! You've made my day. While she did her best to send the country down the gurgler, he was doing it to the farm. Wonderful!Fark we got rid of those pricks years agosent them packing up to Auckland
plus Burton the man behind the bitch was one of very very few farmers to go Bankrupt during the 80s, they ended up on a small lifestyle block on the outskirts of Ashburton and still had to have people come in & maintain it
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Sniper - just move to south Auckland mate - open season 24/7 there, no bag limits and Miss Sniper would learn to shoot real fast... motivation not a problem..
Aargh, photos!
Never thought of it, but Im not sure they would let me use it to teach MS. I know Im still allowed out with the boys when they are down but that was a few months ago though.
Shhhh, thats not really meant to be public knowledge
Thats true, but Im sure I could help things along with early births ect
Lol, Im not sure Im ready for the traffic enviroment up there
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Very different strokes, old bean. The African cartridges, from the .375s etc on up, were all designed for close-range shooting at dangerous game from light (ish) rifles. I refer you to the customary use of monolithic round-nose machined metal bullets rather than copper-jacketed lead, due to the tendency of the latter to disintegrate when penetrating particularly tough and gristly things. It's a long way through an elephant, and while round-nose bullets fly worse than spitzers, they don't tumble on impact.
The trajectories of those cartridges are seriously rainbow-shaped; they're very much about point-and-click shooting. Hell, some of the double rifles just have shotgun-style V sights with a bead on the front.
The .50BMG, however, at least in civilian usage, is all about flat long-range shooting. There's a national 50-cal shooters club in the States (where else) - members like to photograph themselves with game killed past 600 yards, typically nothing bigger than deer. 50BMG rifles are pretty heavy things to carry around all day (they have to be - the chamber pressure required to throw 750 grains out to those ranges is huge). Some of the single-shot .50 bolt actions are almost within manageable weight and bulk limits, though.
Still, I rather suspect that the lack of .50BMG popularity among dangerous game hunters is more about sniffy elitism than any true practical shortcomings.
If I'm ever darn sarf, I'm totally going to kiss Sniper's arse in an attempt to have a go with one.
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Pfft. Nobody's watching.
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If you present yourself to them, they'll usually let you journey around their farms unhindered & just let you know where you can and can't go. mostly the kids get wrapped up in things if your night shooting from vehicles (keep the wee buggers on the spotlight and their useful for retrieving carcasses).
There is a pod of wild deer in the plantation above Kennedy's Bush that can be scoped in the evenings out grazing from up on the summit rdknow a couple of guys that pick one off every now n then to fill the freezer (it is legitimate shooting & they're genuine wild animals not farm escapees).
Also thirteen mile bush is only 35mins drive from town, there's deer, goats, pigs etc up there but they're gun shy and spook easy.
as above, but there's plenty of large wild game shooting close to ChCh that is always over looked.
they were the classic 'all show no go' couldn't organise a piss-up in a brewery
Aargh, photos!
All you need to do is ask. I worked for a living so arse kissing makes me nervous.
To every man upon this earth
Death cometh sooner or late
And how can a man die better
Than facing fearful odds
For the ashes of his fathers
And the temples of his Gods
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