animalpest wrote:Last week I walked past with my hard gun case, a fella asks me "what gun you got?".
Me - A Ruger Scout.
Him - I've got a sniper rifle.
Me - Hahahahaha
ZaineB wrote:sure mate, yet to ever ever ever ever be seen hundreds of lads would back my statement with 0 hesitation, red card shoots are a demonstration of this every year.
what animal is sitting waiting for you to mess with sights and faff around with wind and faff around with range finders and so on? and what kind of hunter puts themselves in hot water territory with rspca and the likes by taking abundantly stupid long range shots on game anyway? try and lic a firearm for taking game at long distance, it will not fly one bit.
couldnt care less who can outshoot who on paper mate. paper means absolutely nothing in the field.
bah! wrote:Maybe they had a tikka and they're having a joke about the bikie that got railed at the speedway?
JohnV wrote:They rarely take their competition rifles into the bush mate . You sound like you have little experience .
duncan61 wrote:I purchased a Sendero in 7mm Rem Mag mainly for F class optical out to 900 yards at Coolup range.I have made 100gn Sierra game kings that are doing around 3300fps and sometimes when I feel like it I will go walking.I shot a fox in the face off a bipod while it was walking towards me at less than 100 metres and the pelt was not much use.I have head shot about 20 grey roos with it and it decapites them sometimes.I am aware its realy a field rifle not a dedicated target rifle but it does both rather well.
animalpest wrote:It's great to have a rifle that's good at the range as well as for hunting. Makes life easier.
I guess it just boils down to some people not getting enough experience. Not their fault as I am sure plenty would like to get out more and hunt/shoot.
animalpest wrote:Last week I walked past with my hard gun case, a fella asks me "what gun you got?".
Me - A Ruger Scout.
Him - I've got a sniper rifle.
Me - Hahahahaha
mchughcb wrote:animalpest wrote:Last week I walked past with my hard gun case, a fella asks me "what gun you got?".
Me - A Ruger Scout.
Him - I've got a sniper rifle.
Me - Hahahahaha
WA = pros and wannabe pros.
Me, I'm just trying to have fun.
animalpest wrote:Jeez ZaneB that's ridiculous. Trying to hit a roos head that range ( if that is what they were trying to do) warrants cruelty charges.
mchughcb wrote:Did they specify police sniper or army sniper rifle?
animalpest wrote:Yeah, like one guy who spruiked just before he did his roo shooters competency test that he had shot 27 roos the night before out to 250m without a miss. Trouble is it took him a numbers of targets before he passed his test.
ZaineB wrote:animalpest wrote:Jeez ZaneB that's ridiculous. Trying to hit a roos head that range ( if that is what they were trying to do) warrants cruelty charges.
Yeah, lets say that's where I am at with these types, this was the day after a red card shoot, and lets say many members of clubs have been found to be doing much of the same down all over the southwest. Can't speak for up north, not the same concentration of property owners/boundaries and the likes, lets say between me and those I work with and those I shoot with and know, we could write a 1000 page book on the sheer number of these weekend cowboy/american sniper wannabe types, it is concerning to say the least.
Many of these people are F-Class and so on competitors, and some have even been on competitive teams, and reserves, always the same level of spruiking before the event, then rarely seen again afterwards thanks to this exact kind of behavior, so sorry to anyone who doesn't think so, but I think paper punchers are better off punching paper.
more than a few occasions of having to put down wounded kangaroos, even on our own place but that was thanks to some army wannabe mate of the neighbors lol.
ZaineB wrote:animalpest wrote:Most city and club shooters probably have better gear than me!!!
all the gear and no idea?