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[mchughcb]

My main hunting calibre is 30-06. The bigger ones are mainly for comp.

[bigrich]

My main hunting calibre is 30-06. The bigger ones are mainly for comp.

Yeah, I’d like a medium bore for “big game “ comp at my local range, but it’s outside my budget for putting holes in paper. I’ve just built up a 7x57 on a ruger “tang safety” in 7x57, and am looking at a rifle for “rook rifle” class (32-20 possibly ) or “settlers rifle “ class in which a lever gun in 357/44mag will meet the rules shooting lead. This type of rifle with full power loads would be reasonably useful as a hunting rifle, so it’s dual purpose and flexible in use. At least that’s my reasoning. lol

[mchughcb]

Here's my rook rifle. Resleeved from 297-300 Rook to 22LR. I love it.

This was before I had the 50 yrd leaf adjusted to shoot for 50m with eley club. Shoots a very tight group at 25m and if you can see the target at 50m.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RsT5jgMBjsg

[Fester]

Never amazes me in the last 3 years how many pensioners ive seen drop 6-10k on a thermal scope or binoculars in the LGS while complaining about the price of ammo.

I'll have you know, I have been in ammo price shock since I got back into shooting. 22 ammo used to cost around $2.50 a pack.
Prices now are disturbing.

Not a chance I would even think about those thermals, and what's wrong with my Fleebay red and green torches.
I won't even buy a decent scope, let alone binos at todays prices.

When I was a boy lol

[mchughcb]

I'll be honest. For the average punter the current chinese scopes for a few hundred bucks will serve them well for 99% of hunting and shooting. My last purchases were a Pard Nite Hunter and a Pard Pantera 256Q on sale from the Pard Ebay store. The first cost $485 with a IR torch and the thermal cost me $872 shipped which was a bargain. Now they have jumped to $1019 if you use the 15% discount code. Still a bargain.

https://www.ebay.com.au/itm/22720352557 ... ULSmrOinZw

[mchughcb]

Never amazes me in the last 3 years how many pensioners ive seen drop 6-10k on a thermal scope or binoculars in the LGS while complaining about the price of ammo.

I'll have you know, I have been in ammo price shock since I got back into shooting. 22 ammo used to cost around $2.50 a pack.
Prices now are disturbing.

Not a chance I would even think about those thermals, and what's wrong with my Fleebay red and green torches.
I won't even buy a decent scope, let alone binos at todays prices.

When I was a boy lol

Been a while since winchester was that cheap. However you can get aguila these days approaching $6/50 which is cheap.

https://huntthenight.com.au/products/ag ... os=1&_ss=c

[mchughcb]

Cheapest, lightest quality night vision with a 940nm torch included. Including discount code its $470.

https://www.ebay.com.au/itm/22720352437 ... R5amzOinZw

[bigrich]

Here's my rook rifle. Resleeved from 297-300 Rook to 22LR. I love it.

This was before I had the 50 yrd leaf adjusted to shoot for 50m with eley club. Shoots a very tight group at 25m and if you can see the target at 50m.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RsT5jgMBjsg

22lr isn't allowed in the rules for rook rifle in our shoots . 297-300, 310 cadet , 25-20 or 32-20 are the accepted cals . has to be lead load and a pre 1905 calibre, and the rifle has to be in the "spirit" of the comp. period correct iron sights, no comp "globe" front sights. i'm gearing up for "classic calibre" class atm . ruger m77 tang safety in 7x57 mauser . the rules for this class apply to the calibre, basically anything before 1936 .scopes are allowed with no penalty to score points. the 7x57 case is shorter than the 270/30-06 case, changes how the extractor holds the case to the bolt face with the button ejector. was going to build this calibre on a mauser 98 variant , but wanted some variety in the safe . the ruger has some good points over the mauser , ejection is not one of them . had to do some "adjustments" to the extractor with a vice and hammer, now the ruger ejects perfectly . my load uses 34gn of 2208 with a 160gn bt speer . at $54 per 100 bullets this load is cheap to shoot, low velocity to keep barrel heat down will help accuracy too. i'm looking at "cheap to shoot" calibre's for comp , medium bore projectiles in general are too expensive for paper punching with my budget