Heckler303 wrote:Has Bill-short-circuit even read what they want to do, aside from the Cat C categorizations?
I'm personally good for all of them, but I'd like suppressors to not just be C class goodies, everyone in my opinion would benefit greatly from using suppressors whenever possible. It's not a matter of looking cool or being sneaky in the paddock, its a matter of keeping your bloody ears intact a bit longer!
I agree totally on the supressors. I shoot every day, unless it's raining, and I accidentally left my earmuffs turned on last year so when I went to use them the next day they were dead.
I don't like the lack of situational awareness from normal muffs, because I want to know if there is stock or someone driving around the paddocks out of my sight but in my field of fire so I went without on the reasoning that as I was hunting and not range shooting I'd only be firing one or two rounds and would be OK.
I had sun and wind in my left eye when lining up a victim so I closed it, following the target, traversing left, I didn't notice how close the bullet path was to the tree I was standing under, so that when I fired, I got a serious bounce off it down my left lughole which was cocked at just the right angle with my face on the cheek piece.
Long story short, the rebound off the tree from the .223 muzzle report knocked out 60% of the hearing in my left ear and replaced it with bloody tinitis.
There aren't masses of Kiwis or Poms commiting "silenced" crimes all over their countries, WTF more evidence do they want?