New Arrival, 7 lbs and cute as a button

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Re: New Arrival, 7 lbs and cute as a button

Post by RDobber » 23 May 2014, 1:50 pm

handofcod wrote:A left handed stainless fluted tikka...? Do my eyes deceive me?!"


Pretty sure they only exist in fairy tales :lol:
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Re: New Arrival, 7 lbs and cute as a button

Post by Kater » 23 May 2014, 1:51 pm

Fairy tales...

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Re: New Arrival, 7 lbs and cute as a button

Post by bigfellascott » 23 Sep 2014, 6:48 am

Chronos wrote:
RDobber wrote:You're mostly into target shooting right Chronos?

Moving into hunting with this one?


Been target shooting most weekends for about 6 years and only hunting for a year or two. Mostly small game with the .22 and the odd pig with the 7-08 but I'm looking at my hunting opportunities for deer, goats and pigs and realised carrying the tikka varmint is not a great prospect for spending the day hunting on foot.

I've also uplifted for the NSW national parks hunting program and NPWS will only allow factory ammo ( 7-08 could cost upwards of $3 a round ) and will provide free ammo for volunteers from their armoury ( only .22lr, .22mag, .223 and .308. ) so a .308 is the obvious choice, free .308 or $60 a box 7/08

artimu, I've only ever used 2 piece rings but these are cheaper and lighter than my steel rings of choice ( warne ) and should stop me removing the scope every five minutes

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How the hell would they know if it was factory ammo or not? :roll:
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Re: New Arrival, 7 lbs and cute as a button

Post by Chronos » 23 Sep 2014, 8:33 am

bigfellascott wrote:How the hell would they know if it was factory ammo or not? :roll:


Hey Scott, I'm not sure how many people are aware but the NPWS staff associated with the joint SSAA SPC program are the same staff that already undertake pest control in the parks, mostly ex pro shooters or commercial pest controllers them selves, they're all shooters themselves and all good people in my experience.

You're point is valid, you could possibly get away with loading your own and putting them into factory packaging but why bother? They tell you what ammo they will be using in advance and hand out ammo on the day of the shoot free. Unused ammo is returned and logged but I'd rather shoot theirs than mine.

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Re: New Arrival, 7 lbs and cute as a button

Post by bigfellascott » 23 Sep 2014, 8:56 am

There's one very good reason why you should bother and that is your rifle is sighted in for your ammo, how the hell do you know where their ammo is shooting, it could be shooting left, right, high, low - it sounds like a really dumb idea to me - makes no sense whatsoever.
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Re: New Arrival, 7 lbs and cute as a button

Post by Chronos » 23 Sep 2014, 10:04 am

Taking the thread far off topic, I'm sure you already know my opinions on this from other forums but I'll say it and I'll stop there.

Not sure why you say that. The shoot plan for the shoot I went on near Griffith specified for example Remington .308 150gr sp ammo would be supplied.

I simply bought one box and zero'd my rifle for it. Not an issue for 90% of shooters to do that in 10 mins at the range.

It's a government regulation relating to WHS not an insult to anyone's hand loading skills.

The program has its flaws, there's hoops to jump through, boxes to tick but for those without their own hunting block or access to land its one option. The biggest roadblock to its success it the ignorant knockers who want to shoot it down without being prepared to be a part of it. I've met some very experienced hunters with their own deer, goat, pig and fox blocks who are enthusiastic to make the program succeed and hopefully expanded after the three year trial.

For me it's an opportunity to learn from those people, see some parks and towns I wouldn't otherwise visit and spend a weekend out of Sydney, in the bush, with my gun.

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Re: New Arrival, 7 lbs and cute as a button

Post by Korkt » 23 Sep 2014, 10:55 am

Chronos wrote:It's a government regulation relating to WHS not an insult to anyone's hand loading skills.


Of course you're right.

I bet there is no shortage of people ticked off by it though.
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Re: New Arrival, 7 lbs and cute as a button

Post by bigfellascott » 23 Sep 2014, 11:38 am

Chronos wrote:Taking the thread far off topic, in slurs you already know my opinions on this from other forums but I'll say it and I'll stop there.


I have no idea what your talking about here sorry. As for the Rem ammo and going out and buying a box before going hunting, all good if you can get it but what happens if you can't, do you just hope for the best and hope it doesn't result in wounded animals? I just think its a weird ideology but each to their own.

Anyway how did the shoot go - what did you shoot and how many?
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Re: New Arrival, 7 lbs and cute as a button

Post by artimu » 23 Sep 2014, 2:47 pm

I'm lost too.

In slurs?

Typo meant to say I'm sure?
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Re: New Arrival, 7 lbs and cute as a button

Post by Chronos » 23 Sep 2014, 2:54 pm

artimu wrote:I'm lost too.

In slurs?

Typo meant to say I'm sure?



Corrected
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Re: New Arrival, 7 lbs and cute as a button

Post by artimu » 23 Sep 2014, 3:15 pm

Thought that made better sense :D
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Re: New Arrival, 7 lbs and cute as a button

Post by bigfellascott » 23 Sep 2014, 3:21 pm

So what did you end up shooting? how many?
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Re: New Arrival, 7 lbs and cute as a button

Post by Chronos » 23 Sep 2014, 6:03 pm

bigfellascott wrote:So what did you end up shooting? how many?



this is a rifle thread so i'd prefer to keep it on topic. i'll put together a more detailed write up sometime but from memory we got 9 pigs and 16 goats, 1 fox. can't remember exact numbers because we were split into two teams. my team had the worse of both days, only seeing one mob of goats moving fast at 150m or so on saturday, shot the one that stopped to check us out. sunday we saw the same mob in a different area but they held up in thick scrub. we tracked them for an hour on hands and knees within 30-40m but never saw them. took 3 pigs moving into the park sunday too

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Re: New Arrival, 7 lbs and cute as a button

Post by Chronos » 23 Sep 2014, 6:10 pm

Any to get back on topic I found the 130gr Federal HP's (tacticals) shot so well i'm finding it hard to buy bullets to reload the brass.

Here's the first three shot group i shot with them at 200y, off front and rear rests. Chronograph showed them at almost exactly 3000fps. they're off center because the rifle was zerod for 150's

To say i'm happy with it is an understatement. light weight hunting rifle, 3 shots under 1" at 200y with factory ammo. I'll take that any day of the week

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Re: New Arrival, 7 lbs and cute as a button

Post by bigfellascott » 23 Sep 2014, 6:18 pm

Not a prob Chronos, looking forward to hearing more about it.

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Re: New Arrival, 7 lbs and cute as a button

Post by bigfellascott » 23 Sep 2014, 6:21 pm

Chronos wrote:Any to get back on topic I found the 130gr Federal HP's (tacticals) shot so well i'm finding it hard to buy bullets to reload the brass.

Here's the first three shot group i shot with them at 200y, off front and rear rests. Chronograph showed them at almost exactly 3000fps. they're off center because the rifle was zerod for 150's

To say i'm happy with it is an understatement. light weight hunting rifle, 3 shots under 1" at 200y with factory ammo. I'll take that any day of the week

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