Nick Harvey

[bladeracer]

https://sportingshooter.com.au/news/vale-nick-harvey-australias-legendary-gun-writer-and-hunter/

Nick Harvey has died today.

[9.3x64]

RIP Nick.
Many of us grew up reading his articles…
It was probably Nick that inspired many of us to get into the sport.

[No1Mk3]

Sad news, a very practical and open man who helped many long the path. RIP

[Oldbloke]

RIP Nick. Read many of his articles in the Outdoors mag and Sporting Shooter. He was still writing until very recently I believe.


I wonder what happened to Col Allison?

[gunderson]

Have to admit I dont know if I have ever read an article by this Gentleman, however, It is always sad to lose a member of the shooting community, especially one that has positively impacted a lot of others, May God rest his soul in Paradise.

[straightshooter]

I wonder what happened to Col Allison?

A couple of days ago I was wondering just that myself.

[Jackaroo]

RIP Nick.

[GQshayne]

I loved reading his stuff, and he will be missed.

I have looked for info on Col Allison a while ago, but found nothing.

[Oldbloke]

I loved reading his stuff, and he will be missed.

I have looked for info on Col Allison a while ago, but found nothing.

Pretty old but interesting listening.

https://youtu.be/7JXrtrcnmSI?si=FUSyOuly-0-fQ6Qc

[Billo]

RIP Nick, plenty of great reviews & stories you gave us, you will be missed.

He was shooter right up until the end too, he tried buying a rifle off me a bit over a year ago in a varmint chambering he had never owned, unfortunately the rifle was already sold.

[GQshayne]

I loved reading his stuff, and he will be missed.

I have looked for info on Col Allison a while ago, but found nothing.

Pretty old but interesting listening.

https://youtu.be/7JXrtrcnmSI?si=FUSyOuly-0-fQ6Qc

I shall have to try and remember to listen to that sometime.

[bigrich]

wow , sad news . i grew up reading his articles . i thought uncle nick might live forever . he had a good run and lived a life that most of us might envy . thanks for the link to sporting shooter article . the pick of uncle nick standing next to elmer keith and the story about culling while driving the school bus , priceless . even after he's gone he still educates and amazes me . RIP uncle nick

[alexjones]

I won't speak ill of the dead but I don't like him. Remember what he said about how he didn't see a need for civilians to have self loading rifles? Only a communist would think they can tell others what they need. I don't see a need for red pants so I don't buy them. I don't tell others to not buy them if they so wish.

[bladeracer]

I won't speak ill of the dead but I don't like him. Remember what he said about how he didn't see a need for civilians to have self loading rifles? Only a communist would think they can tell others what they need. I don't see a need for red pants so I don't buy them. I don't tell others to not buy them if they so wish.

Same. He helped me as a kid with reloading data but when he turned against us he lost me.

[alexjones]

I won't speak ill of the dead but I don't like him. Remember what he said about how he didn't see a need for civilians to have self loading rifles? Only a communist would think they can tell others what they need. I don't see a need for red pants so I don't buy them. I don't tell others to not buy them if they so wish.

Same. He helped me as a kid with reloading data but when he turned against us he lost me.

He new his stuff in regards to reloading, very knowledgeable. Been doing it since the 1950s I think.

[bigrich]

I won't speak ill of the dead but I don't like him. Remember what he said about how he didn't see a need for civilians to have self loading rifles? Only a communist would think they can tell others what they need. I don't see a need for red pants so I don't buy them. I don't tell others to not buy them if they so wish.

soooo your calling him a communist for voicing a opinion that differs to yours

[alexjones]

I won't speak ill of the dead but I don't like him. Remember what he said about how he didn't see a need for civilians to have self loading rifles? Only a communist would think they can tell others what they need. I don't see a need for red pants so I don't buy them. I don't tell others to not buy them if they so wish.

soooo your calling him a communist for voicing a opinion that differs to yours

Hahaha yes. Look whilst it may sound "ironic" on my part but his opinion effects other people so I will call him a communist. A classical liberal would say I don't like self loading rifles so I wont buy one. Where a communist will say I don't like self loading rifles so I don't want anyone to buy one.

[Oldbloke]

Sooo exactly what did he say to who?

[bigrich]

I won't speak ill of the dead but I don't like him. Remember what he said about how he didn't see a need for civilians to have self loading rifles? Only a communist would think they can tell others what they need. I don't see a need for red pants so I don't buy them. I don't tell others to not buy them if they so wish.

soooo your calling him a communist for voicing a opinion that differs to yours

Hahaha yes. Look whilst it may sound "ironic" on my part but his opinion effects other people so I will call him a communist. A classical liberal would say I don't like self loading rifles so I wont buy one. Where a communist will say I don't like self loading rifles so I don't want anyone to buy one.

so your against people voicing their opinion , cause it doesn't align with yours , but you don't like communists

being able to voice one's opinion is the foundation of democracy . it's a natural right . if you don't agree that's your right . but to label people on their voiced opinions or beliefs is a slippery slope morally and ethically .

but you don't have to agree with me mate ......

[alexjones]

I won't speak ill of the dead but I don't like him. Remember what he said about how he didn't see a need for civilians to have self loading rifles? Only a communist would think they can tell others what they need. I don't see a need for red pants so I don't buy them. I don't tell others to not buy them if they so wish.

soooo your calling him a communist for voicing a opinion that differs to yours

Hahaha yes. Look whilst it may sound "ironic" on my part but his opinion effects other people so I will call him a communist. A classical liberal would say I don't like self loading rifles so I wont buy one. Where a communist will say I don't like self loading rifles so I don't want anyone to buy one.

so your against people voicing their opinion , cause it doesn't align with yours , but you don't like communists

being able to voice one's opinion is the foundation of democracy . it's a natural right . if you don't agree that's your right . but to label people on their voiced opinions or beliefs is a slippery slope morally and ethically .

but you don't have to agree with me mate ......

I am not against people voicing their opinion. I love it. The best way to defeat a bad argument is with a good argument.

However what I am against are communists who threaten to arrest me and lock me up if I don't hand over my private property.

Surely you can see the difference where his opinion was used into actual physical action that molested hundreds of thousands of people in this country by stealing our private property?

My opinions are to let people do whatever they want and say whatever they want just don't harm others. Where communists want to tell other people how to live their life.

[alexjones]

Sooo exactly what did he say to who?

There was an old TV interview where for lack of a better word he bent over for Howard. I can't remember the exact words it was a long time ago. I will have a look if it is on youtube.

[Oldbloke]

Borsak's speech / dedication to Nick Harvey in parliament

https://sportingshooter.com.au/news/nic ... arliament/

[bigrich]

Borsak's speech / dedication to Nick Harvey in parliament

https://sportingshooter.com.au/news/nic ... arliament/

Thanks for the link. Good to see public recognition for uncle nick. Shooter’s and shooting don’t get much attention unless it’s some sort of tragedy

[Bugman]

Had the experience of meeting him a long while back, at the pub in Hill End. Only spoke briefly but I kind of liked the guy.
Knew a fair bit about firearms. Mind you, things were a lot simpler in those days regarding firearm ownership.

[Jorlcrin]

Well,

Hard to believe, but the Sporting Shooter Magazine seem to think he's still alive!!
Looking at a review of a scope this morning(Review: Steiner Predator 4 4-16×50), and they mention it was posted by Nick Harvey, a month ago!
Uncle Nick's come back from the dead!

I keep promising my nieces that when I pop my clogs, I'll be certain to come posses their cat(s).
The day after the funeral, Puddin will leap out of it's bed, Yowl weirdly, and run full-tilt into the nearest wall...
Nieces will be able to say "Oh, GREAT....Uncles Back...We're gonna need a new cat..."
For some reason, I thought nieces would be more enthusiastic to keep in touch afterwards...

[Wapiti]

I met him at a Shot Show in Brisbane, I think it was the first one ever up here.
That was when the SSAA actually remembered Qld existed.
Thanked him for his technical work for the shooting industry. He certainly was a humble man and couldn't get around properly because of being mobbed by everybody wanting to do the same thing and ask him questions. Poor bugger.

Something contentious perhaps... Towards the end, he seemed totally sold-out to his earlier opinions and ideals, seemingly toeing the advertisement line where you bow down to wherever the money comes in and recommend any and everything that brings in the advertising dollar.
I reckon that was something he hated to do. That set the stage for now, where the site and magazine is just reviews for the advertisers, and the technical Q&A's are almost pointless, and done by a journalist who took on shooting for a job to pay the bills.
Goes to show what a true experienced expert and humble gent he was, and how there is a huge hole in shooting's interest now, where the "reviewers" just repeat the sales blurb of the advertising dollar.

[safeshot]

I had written to Nick over the years and kept all his replies. I have them bound now in a book form as a keepsake of the man.
I recall once when he phoned me to ask some thing. well, what a buzz that was.
The country is a sadder place without him.

[bigrich]

the best way to honour a man like uncle nick is to try to live up to the gentleman's standard he set . the older generation in general was more polite and courteous , with a greater sense of what's right and wrong. i spent a lot of time with my grandfather as a kid , which gave me the old world morales and standards i keep today . maybe i'm putting uncle nick on a pedestal , but we'd all be better men to try to live up to his example

[Oldbloke]

I had written to Nick over the years and kept all his replies. I have them bound now in a book form as a keepsake of the man.
I recall once when he phoned me to ask some thing. well, what a buzz that was.
The country is a sadder place without him.

Goodonya. I believe this was the norm for Nick. Always replied with a hand written letter.

[Stoney]

I wrote my first handwritten letter to Uncle Nick at 14 asking him if a 14-year-old boy could handle the recoil of a 30/06. My stepfather had bought me a heavily Sporterized Famage M98 in 30/06 with 180grn Musgrave round nose rounds on my advice for my birthday. I had obliviously read way too many big game hunting stories. ( He wasn't a firearms man ). No recoil pad. Steel buttstock. Open sights. The rifle beat the absolute s**t out of me to the point I developed a flinch. I probably weighed 40 kgs ringing wet, if that.. Anyhoo, Uncle Nick sent back a hand typed letter to my letterbox telling me that if I persevere, he was sure, I would become a great shooter and hunter. That letter was an absolute highlight to me being 14 and Nick Harvey wrote back to me. Good on ya Uncle Nick.