What did you do today?

[Bugman]

Loaded some more 357 crackers.

[Lazarus]

I'm currently doing 4 things

1. Waiting to see if I develop COVID symptoms after doing some training with a positive person on the weekend.
2. Waiting on Amazon to deliver shiny new Peltors
3. Waiting on a call from the gun shop to tell me my LA101 and scope have arrived
4. Posting here because its the only place people will understand the frustration of waiting for all the first 3!

Bugger the rest, waiting for a new gun is like a 5yo before xmas, it's excruciating.

Like watching the Austpost tracking history on something you really need, and seeing it on an all stops tour.

[Flyonline]

I've used them....a fair bit....still undecided on them.

Which projectile?

Yeah, but foxes taste like sh!t

You're supposed to skin them first

It is annoying when your rifle insists on moving the reduced load to the side instead of just dropping it below the full-power loads.

I'm not too surprised, a big flat meplat vs a spitzer but as you say would be nicer if it was just a holdover in one direction.

[Lazarus]

Oh, you mean that stuff on the outside comes off?

[bigpete]

I've used them....a fair bit....still undecided on them.

Which projectile?

190gn hornady subx on 10.5gn trailboss

[deye243]

Bought more lead

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[bigpete]

Drive to Daylesford to catch up with a Facebook friend who didn't respond to any messages when we got there so drive back to Kyneton and went fishing

[animalpest]

Getting ready to finish a contract to shoot 1000 kangaroos on an urban property. Got 934 so far so almost done.

[bigpete]

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Went for a hunt. Got honked at less than 100m from the car,also spooked 2 fallow on the way back to the car. Still fairly crook but had fun. Pity I didn't unleash the 35 whelen

[Bugman]

Went to the range and let loose the 357 crackers I loaded on the 23rd plus fired off some 22's.

[TuskerOrd]

Went to the range to test fire some rifles I completed recently. Really enjoyed shooting the 338 Lapua.

[bigpete]

Went and caught up with Noosydad this arvo and traded some SA flint for a handmade fire steel and chewed the fat both figuratively and literally at Maccas

[Blr243]

Made my first set of custom steel stair stringers And forgot to visit the new hunting store in Springwood

[bigpete]

Went fishing for redfin in 5⁰ rainy weather

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[bigpete]

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Took a fallow doe this morning with a 100m offhand shot with my 35 whelen

[Oldbloke]

Driving along the Princess Hwy.
Red deer doe run across the road infront of the ute.

[Flyonline]

Nice Pete, should be tasty (x2)!

[Oldbloke]

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Took a fallow doe this morning with a 100m offhand shot with my 35 whelen

Great

[bigpete]

Nice Pete, should be tasty (x2)!

Yes,should be. Wish I'd used my 308 but I was hoping to find a sambar

[bladeracer]

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Took a fallow doe this morning with a 100m offhand shot with my 35 whelen

That's awesome, Pete!

[Flyonline]

Yes,should be. Wish I'd used my 308 but I was hoping to find a sambar

Gives you a reason to go back

[bigpete]

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Took a fallow doe this morning with a 100m offhand shot with my 35 whelen

That's awesome, Pete!

Cheers

[bigpete]

Yes,should be. Wish I'd used my 308 but I was hoping to find a sambar

Gives you a reason to go back

Yep,when I can afford to again. I'm kinda hoping to do 2 to 3 trips a year after sambar.

[Flyonline]

Ducked out for a last minute sit 'n' wait opposite where I shot my last hind, was hoping to go elsewhere but the road was closed off for works Passed some clown that had a rifle poking out the window of the car parked in the middle of the road in a plantation. Dodgiest spot with road's all around and plenty of pushbikes and horses use these roads, let alone being a definite non-hunting area.

Headed out this morning to grab the camera I'd hung over a wallow which gave stuff all back - 1 spike, maybe 1 pig and about 2hrs before I picked it up another hunter. No wonder I didn't see anything on the way in!! Then took my daughter and re-hung it over a scrape I've hung it on before, it (the scrape) looks like it's just started being used, so hopefully will pick up some more activity. Went to the local lake and threw lures around for 45min and ended up landing 1 reddy which came home.

Also been playing with some homemade soft plastics with the warmer months not far away. Finally also found a filler that gives me a strong and light polyurethane so I should be able to pour some hardbodies as well.

[Oldbloke]

Ducked out for a last minute sit 'n' wait opposite where I shot my last hind, was hoping to go elsewhere but the road was closed off for works Passed some clown that had a rifle poking out the window of the car parked in the middle of the road in a plantation. Dodgiest spot with road's all around and plenty of pushbikes and horses use these roads, let alone being a definite non-hunting area.

Headed out this morning to grab the camera I'd hung over a wallow which gave stuff all back - 1 spike, maybe 1 pig and about 2hrs before I picked it up another hunter. No wonder I didn't see anything on the way in!! Then took my daughter and re-hung it over a scrape I've hung it on before, it (the scrape) looks like it's just started being used, so hopefully will pick up some more activity. Went to the local lake and threw lures around for 45min and ended up landing 1 reddy which came home.

Also been playing with some homemade soft plastics with the warmer months not far away. Finally also found a filler that gives me a strong and light polyurethane so I should be able to pour some hardbodies as well.

He is trespassing unless he has permission.

Found some fossils.

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[bladeracer]

Water pump wouldn't run this morning to fill the cow troughs so Rose brought it back to the house and I gave it a good going over. Fuel tank and carb were full of water, gave it an oil change and fixed the pull start rope. Couldn't fix the broken kill switch so have to order a replacement. I took it back up to the dam and filled the troughs. Then I welded up a quick latch for the gate into the chicken run, then replaced the alternator and glow plug relay on the Landcruiser. Then Rose's brother showed up so we tried putting in a set of LED headlights I bought for the ute years ago. High beams work fine, low beams work fine but only when plugged into the high beam circuit, weird since the old sealed beams work fine on both circuits. So we gave up and swapped the old lights back in for now.

[bigpete]

Been crook all weekend....again.....spent a lot of time in bed sleeping through fevers. Absofuckinglutely over being crook.

[Bugman]

Just cleaned out 0ne of my three sheds. Found heaps and heaps of tools, drills, saws, nail guns etc etc. Me thinks that a garage sale is due. It is amazing what you you accumulate after 40 odd years. Now for the other two sheds.

[Oldbloke]

Worked on Van brakes.

[bigpete]

Just cleaned out 0ne of my three sheds. Found heaps and heaps of tools, drills, saws, nail guns etc etc. Me thinks that a garage sale is due. It is amazing what you you accumulate after 40 odd years. Now for the other two sheds.

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