the all aussie dribble thread!

[deye223]

and this is me main culling smoke poll .223 on it.s 3rd barrel

 

[Stihlman441]

I have started a new post if you guys wont to follow what i have been up to.

http://www.arboristsite.com/chainsaw/191377.htm

 

[Stihlman441]

and this is me main culling smoke poll .223 on it.s 3rd barrel

Nice lookin set up there champ :msp_thumbsup:

 

[AUSSIE1]

They are eye buggin' at this hour. Thanks for those, they will be useful.

Current Eureka NEXRAD Radar Map : Weather Underground

If it makes you feel better Randy those particular graphs are showing very similar results to $1500/year subscription weather sites that many local farmers have - and they're FREE

I'm using the app "Weatherzone plus" which gives all the info I need. Info from the "BOM" plus addition from their own meteorologists.

Weatherzone Plus+

 

[David (saltas)]

I'm using the app "Weatherzone plus" which gives all the info I need. Info from the "BOM" plus addition from their own meteorologists.

Weatherzone Plus+

nouice I've ben ussing weather zone on the PC for a while but never looked for a android app

 

[Terry Syd]

I wonder what it is, chainsaws and guns - the Yanks seem to have the same connection to the hardware. I wonder if the Europeans have the same interest?

Wish I still had that target of the 30/30 Marlin 22 land microgrove barrel with the .224" group at 100 meters. I loved that rifle so much I shot the damn barrel out....

 

[AUSSIE1]

nouice I've ben ussing weather zone on the PC for a while but never looked for a android app

Yeah Dave, doing for android also! :msp_thumbup:

 

[derwoodii]

I wonder what it is, chainsaws and guns - the Yanks seem to have the same connection to the hardware. I wonder if the Europeans have the same interest?

Wish I still had that target of the 30/30 Marlin 22 land microgrove barrel with the .224" group at 100 meters. I loved that rifle so much I shot the damn barrel out....

Well heres stats upon gun ownership just need to see how saw sales are going. MCW you sold 100.000 saws past 5 years?



Trigger happy shooters' gun buying spree


Trigger happy shooters' gun buying spree | thetelegraph.com.au

NSW is gun mad - and proud of it - with shooters stockpiling almost 100,000 new registered firearms in the past five years.

The number of gun licences, meanwhile, has only increased by about a fifth, or 18,852 over the same period, showing some are stocking up with numerous weapons.

There are now 763,359 registered firearms across the state, including 27,956 handguns, compared with 190,844 licences - taking the ratio to four guns for every licensed owner. In some country towns firearms outnumber people - in Ivanhoe, in the state's far west, 273 residents own 432 guns

 

[Terry Syd]

Love the Aussie anti-gun propaganda - it's always "trigger happy" gun owners.

By the way, for any of you Aussies that haven't read my articles on the Port Arthur Massacre, give me a PM and I'll forward them. Not many of you have interviewed survivors of the massacre or looked at some the forensic evidence or listened to tapes or watched videos or read for two days the available witness statements. - Bryant is innocent, it was a psy-op like 9-11.

 

[David (saltas)]

Love the Aussie anti-gun propaganda - it's always "trigger happy" gun owners.

By the way, for any of you Aussies that haven't read my articles on the Port Arthur Massacre, give me a PM and I'll forward them. Not many of you have interviewed survivors of the massacre or looked at some the forensic evidence or listened to tapes or watched videos or read for two days the available witness statements. - Bryant is innocent, it was a psy-op like 9-11.

OMG

I'm taken my model 67 and my 09L and...............

 

[deye223]

I wonder what it is, chainsaws and guns - the Yanks seem to have the same connection to the hardware. I wonder if the Europeans have the same interest?

Wish I still had that target of the 30/30 Marlin 22 land microgrove barrel with the .224" group at 100 meters. I loved that rifle so much I shot the damn barrel out....

yeah terry i spose it's to do with being in the great outdoors we go out and see deer all over the place we'd look funny chasing a deer with a chainsaw through the bush but on the serious side it's all about being out and about

 

[deye223]

here ya go andrew

1st one is me .243WIN it is a bastad i can't stop the split grouping tryed it all but i can live with it got the 2506 for the LONG SHOTS now that thing shoots

and the second is my main work load with nosler balistic tips 50 grain in the REM 700 VLS .223

and another with bench mark 2

can not find the cards of the 25 will have to go and shoot some
shot at 110 meters

 

[Stihlman441]

This is very impressive for you car blokes.
I bet ya wotch afew times.

Ken Block's Gymkhana THREE, Part 2; Ultimate Playground; l'Autodrome, France - YouTube

 

[deye223]

yep me son has had me watching him for a longtime pity he's not a very good raly driver every time i see him on WRC he is in the bottom half you would not think so after seeing him drift

 

[MCW]

MCW you sold 100.000 saws past 5 years?

Hmmm. Interesting. I must have been in a coma for at least 4 1/2 of those 5 years. Where did those stats come from?

got the 2506 for the LONG SHOTS now that thing shoots

Mate they are a great calibre. I've got my Tikka T3 Varmint Stainless plus my original Remington 700BDL-DM (detachable mag) in .25/06. The Rem is on it's 3rd barrel and the Tikka is on it's original. I know the Model 700 actions are tough and they are a great base but I had massive feeding issues with that thing (still do - it doesn't get used anymore). It is accurate though but a pain in the arse.
A few mates also had issues with Model 700's in .300 Win Mag when they wouldn't extract their first fired case. On further inspection under warranty they found that a batch of those rifles that made it to Australia had dodgey chambers - fire formed cases were getting hung up on defects. The original barrel on my then new 700 was also absolute crap. The worst finished rifling I have ever seen. I know there are good 700's out there and I'm sure some of their top end stuff is finished well but I'm yet to be impressed by the Model 700's as a whole.

Another interesting thing last week too guys. A mate's mate bought a new CZ 452 in .22LR. My mate already had one. Anyway out of the box this thing wouldn't fire. They swapped bolts and dry fired it no problem in my mate's rifle but my mate's bolt wouldn't fire in the new rifle (hope you understood that!).
Anyway on further inspection due to a fault in the trigger group the dealer discovered it could NEVER have fired. Hmmm, interesting how it had a test target in the box! Now I love my Brno's and CZ's but that smells extremely fishy to me...

 

[deye223]

very fishy and i can back you up on the 700s i got a new VSSF11 biggest POS i had the miss fortune to own tell you on the phone one day it would take me all night too type it all me slow and that was a $1740 rifle

 

[MCW]

very fishy and i can back you up on the 700s i got a new VSSF11 biggest POS i had the miss fortune to own tell you on the phone one day it would take me all night too type it all me slow and that was a $1740 rifle

Yeah mate. The actions are about the only thing going for them although they aren't necessarily better than anything else in my opinion. Oh and mine also had a trigger issue after about 1000 rounds where chrome plating started coming off the sear. I ended up having to polish it with a Dremel to get it smooth again. Out of the box the POS wouldn't shoot under 2" groups with handloads. A stainless Sprinter barrel plus floating and bedding had it back to around 1/2" MOA.
I even heard direct from the dealer when I complained about mine (early to mid 90's when the DM's got released here) that he'd heard that many complaints about the 700's that he believed we were getting all of the US rejects. I think I paid $1425 for mine in about 1995 I think.

 

[Terry Syd]

Sounds like I'm not alone. I forget which model BRNO I have (556?), but it is a 30-06 on a Mauser action. It's a lightweight, lovely mountain rifle with pretty wood - but wouldn't shoot minute of barn door when I got it (one of the least accurate rifles I've ever shot)

It was given to me, so I wasn't out anything except the time to bed the action, float the barrel and work up a load. It is now a respectable shooter of less than 1 MOA, but only for the first three shots. After that I need to clean the barrel. I don't know what the original owner paid for it, but he definitely got burned.

 

[Aussie Dave]

Everyones mileage is different i guess.My 234,in 700BDL is as accurate as i can shoot and never had an issue.
The most overated (to me) rifle i ever had was a Sako 222.Hated the trigger and even after having the guy that does all Nick Harveys gunsmith work (buggered if i can think of his name atm,lives in Tumbarumba) Float and bed it,just never impressed me.Sold it on a Tikka in 222 and it is great.

 

[MCW]

Everyones mileage is different i guess.My 234,in 700BDL is as accurate as i can shoot and never had an issue.
The most overated (to me) rifle i ever had was a Sako 222.Hated the trigger and even after having the guy that does all Nick Harveys gunsmith work (buggered if i can think of his name atm,lives in Tumbarumba) Float and bed it,just never impressed me.Sold it on a Tikka in 222 and it is great.

They certainly do vary mate. My brother has a Model 700 in .222 with a HS Precision stock, Timney trigger, and heavy fluted Kreiger barrel. Very very accurate but used mainly on the range. The only original part is the action though and that's been lapped etc.
However just like the cheaper Weatherbys the Remington 700's are highly overrated in my opinion. They may have been good many years ago but I'll take a newer Sako or Tikka over one anyday although the Sakos are getting hell expensive now. By the way I know a guy with an older Tikka .17 Rem and it's piece of crap but I love my Tikka. My best mate bought a Tikka T3 in .25/06 like me but in sporter weight - he reckons it's a nicer action and trigger than the Accuracy International sniper rifles he used in the army.
Good old Uncle Nick Still bragging about how good he is climbing mountains at 108 years of age or whatever he is He'll certainly be missed for his loading data though, that's for sure. For his experience he always made me laugh when saying the maximum range of a .22LR is 69m etc. I'd bet my lefty he's bowled rabbits arse over head well beyond that consistently with the old two two.