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Re: What did you do today?

Post by bladeracer » 19 Jun 2026, 9:56 am

My life got flipped on its head while I was at Bathurst :-)
When I left it was peace and quiet here. I got home to find that my daughter's family will be living with us now, two adults and four kids from five to fifteen - a very much more hectic life. They were passing through on the way down to Tassie where they'd put an offer on a bush block. Somehow (I'm still not sure how) it all changed and they're now staying here.

The kids are good though. The oldest has been coming pistol shooting with me so we'll sign him up at the club real soon. I've booked four seats at the longarms safety course next week so we'll have my daughter, her husband and the two oldest kids licenced by next month.
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Re: What did you do today?

Post by Darththorn » 21 Jun 2026, 4:30 pm

bladeracer wrote:My life got flipped on its head while I was at Bathurst :-)
When I left it was peace and quiet here. I got home to find that my daughter's family will be living with us now, two adults and four kids from five to fifteen - a very much more hectic life. They were passing through on the way down to Tassie where they'd put an offer on a bush block. Somehow (I'm still not sure how) it all changed and they're now staying here.

The kids are good though. The oldest has been coming pistol shooting with me so we'll sign him up at the club real soon. I've booked four seats at the longarms safety course next week so we'll have my daughter, her husband and the two oldest kids licenced by next month.



If you can figure out a way to get LRD to process your applications within a month, let me know your secret method. :roll: :lol:
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Re: What did you do today?

Post by bladeracer » 21 Jun 2026, 5:26 pm

Darththorn wrote:
bladeracer wrote:My life got flipped on its head while I was at Bathurst :-)
When I left it was peace and quiet here. I got home to find that my daughter's family will be living with us now, two adults and four kids from five to fifteen - a very much more hectic life. They were passing through on the way down to Tassie where they'd put an offer on a bush block. Somehow (I'm still not sure how) it all changed and they're now staying here.

The kids are good though. The oldest has been coming pistol shooting with me so we'll sign him up at the club real soon. I've booked four seats at the longarms safety course next week so we'll have my daughter, her husband and the two oldest kids licenced by next month.



If you can figure out a way to get LRD to process your applications within a month, let me know your secret method. :roll: :lol:


Yes, I see they're running about four bloody months currently :-)
Oh well.
Actually, five doing the course now, finally convinced my brother-in-law to add CatA/B to his CatH :-)
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Re: What did you do today?

Post by bladeracer » 09 Jul 2026, 7:04 pm

Permit finally came through so I picked up the Norinco 1911A1 .45ACP this arvo.
Just finished loading 190rds for it.
We have a Classic Pistol match on Saturday morning so I'll see how it shoots then.
600,000 serial number so near the end of the 1995 production run I think.
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Re: What did you do today?

Post by bladeracer » 11 Jul 2026, 4:47 pm

Shot a Classic Pistol match this morning and really like this pistol.
I loaded 230gn round-nose bullets just to be sure they would feed, and they shot fine, zero issues today. Another shooter gave me five rounds of his SWC 200gn loads and they ran fine also so I'll order more of those.
Picked up a Kimber .22LR conversion for it today, and that ran fine as well.
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