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[MCW]

It's very pleasent here too nice and cool

A bit too bloody warm here. Low 30's so not too bad but low 20's would be betterer.

 

[Steve NW WI]

Merry Christmas, Aussies, Kiwis, and assorted miscreants!

I got your snow needs covered. This old girl's gonna be pushing snow in the morning again, just have to hang the blade back on. About 10cm fresh today.



Currently -13°C here. I'm hanging out watching the fire and waiting on Saint Nick.

 

[ausneil 1]

Smelly clitmas homies. Hope you all have a great day and a good break. I've got all week off.
Had breakfast at my mum and dad's place (ham and cheese croissants) then headed down the in-law's farm to partake in 4 days of shooting ferals.
For those that are interested I found an awesome ballistic's program for Android/Apple called "Strelok" (do a search). The Android version is free. It has a few pretty awesome things such as reticle choice so you can actually choose your scope's reticle and once you know velocity and BC of your projectile you can plug in some very interesting numbers. for example I have a few scopes with mildot reticles. I chronographed a few different reloads of mine yesterday and for example my .22/250 Ackley is punching out a 55gn Ballistic Tip at 3900fps (27" barrel).
Therefore once I punch the required numbers into the program I can select "reticle" and it tells me what ranges the dots are zeroed at. I can tell you now from just trying it out at 500-600m it is pretty well spot on This is the best program I have seen by far...

Way to technical for this little black duck,,,,,,, only need to hit a dinner plate at 100 yards to break it, it will break just the same if it got hit near the edge as in the middle.

Words of wisdom from a part time country hunter now replaced by his son's, no worries, I drive the ute and let them walk.

Hope you all are doing the chrissy bit today, stay safe.

 

[ausneil 1]

Another Chinese 070 I bet

Wow,,,,, Wayno will be pleased with that.......

 

[ausneil 1]

Merry Christmas, Aussies, Kiwis, and assorted miscreants!

I got your snow needs covered. This old girl's gonna be pushing snow in the morning again, just have to hang the blade back on. About 10cm fresh today.

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Currently -13°C here. I'm hanging out watching the fire and waiting on Saint Nick.

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Merry Christmas Steve,,,, is a nice day here on the east coast, cloudy and not too hot at all. Only problem here is them bloody Cicarters, they are bad this year and are droning bad now and have been for weeks.
The highway is busy today (national highway runs by my back fence), not many trucks but cars are on the move north to invade QLD.

 

[husq2100]

Smelly clitmas homies. Hope you all have a great day and a good break. I've got all week off.
Had breakfast at my mum and dad's place (ham and cheese croissants) then headed down the in-law's farm to partake in 4 days of shooting ferals.
For those that are interested I found an awesome ballistic's program for Android/Apple called "Strelok" (do a search). The Android version is free. It has a few pretty awesome things such as reticle choice so you can actually choose your scope's reticle and once you know velocity and BC of your projectile you can plug in some very interesting numbers. for example I have a few scopes with mildot reticles. I chronographed a few different reloads of mine yesterday and for example my .22/250 Ackley is punching out a 55gn Ballistic Tip at 3900fps (27" barrel).
Therefore once I punch the required numbers into the program I can select "reticle" and it tells me what ranges the dots are zeroed at. I can tell you now from just trying it out at 500-600m it is pretty well spot on This is the best program I have seen by far...

I have no idea what you said??

Matt, any big reason not to go .222 over .223. Im reading good things about .222 for paper punching. Is availability that bad?

 

[husq2100]

looks like I have no luck running the full circle crank in the 266SE. Will have to see what parts I need for a 272 build….

 

[gmax]

any idea what it is????

 

[gmax]

Wow,,,,, Wayno will be pleased with that.......

Careful Neil one is more than enough

 

[splitpost]

Careful Neil one is more than enough

(b)ob would argue that point

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[derwoodii]

my sox draw runeth over

I did get my new shootin mat sweet my own grassy noel can now retire the picnic rug

 

[husq2100]

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thats awesome haha

 

[VinceGU05]

Merry Xmas uncle bob

 

[Rudolf73]

Merry late Christmas fellas!

And +1 on the socks! lol. Ahh well I guess they are useful


On a sad note, I got my first AS dislike today... can't please everyone though aye. I'll just have a beer for the poor grumpy lad

 

[ozflea]

Merry Xmas uncle bob

Just as well i didn't buy a 4 wheel drive then eh

 

[splitpost]

Merry late Christmas fellas!

And +1 on the socks! lol. Ahh well I guess they are useful


On a sad note, I got my first AS dislike today... can't please everyone though aye. I'll just have a beer for the poor grumpy lad

Merry xmas Rudy,mate the way i see it is ,the dislike button is for those that don't have the balls to stand up and make there point if in disagreement and just another supressive device to deter healthy debate

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[tdi-rick]

I have no idea what you said??

Matt, any big reason not to go .222 over .223. Im reading good things about .222 for paper punching. Is availability that bad?

If all you are after is paper punching and making a target rifle you'd use 22 or 6mm PPC.

223 has usurped the 222 purely due to availability of brass and cartridges.

Way back when I first started shooting, the 222 was the round to have, even in bench rest shouting, it just has an intrinsic accuracy.
The PPC rounds took a while to push the 222 aside on the range.

It was the slightly longer neck that supposedly gave it the accuracy edge over the 223, conversely the 223 has a slightly greater case capacity as the 222 shoulder was pushed forward and so gave the 223 round the velocity the military were after.

Unfortunately it's hard to get the 222 these days as the 223 has the velocity edge and there is bugger all difference in practical accuracy.
The 222 was never any where near as popular in the US as here, they were never really into the .22 centre fires over there until the para military M15's, Ruger's Mini 14, etc. became popular and as that's where a lot of our rifles, ammo and trends come from, the little 222 has been pushed aside.

It's so much easier to get 223 cartridges, brass and data, let alone rifles these days.

 

[tdi-rick]

Just a quick Q on barrels.

Who makes a nicely accurate, good quality and relatively affordable SS barrel these days?

My sister is becoming a mad keen shooter and wants to use my rifles and my Howa really does need rebarrelling, it's the world's worst copper fouler and its accuracy is mediocre at best.
Good enough for s hunting rifle, but not good enough, if you know what I mean!

May even get it rechambered, it's currently a .243 so would have to remain a 'short' cartridge as its a short action receiver.

Suggestions?

 

[husq2100]

If all you are after is paper punching and making a target rifle you'd use 22 or 6mm PPC.

223 has usurped the 222 purely due to availability of brass and cartridges.

Way back when I first started shooting, the 222 was the round to have, even in bench rest shouting, it just has an intrinsic accuracy.
The PPC rounds took a while to push the 222 aside on the range.

It was the slightly longer neck that supposedly gave it the accuracy edge over the 223, conversely the 223 has a slightly greater case capacity as the 222 shoulder was pushed forward and so gave the 223 round the velocity the military were after.

Unfortunately it's hard to get the 222 these days as the 223 has the velocity edge and there is bugger all difference in practical accuracy.
The 222 was never any where near as popular in the US as here, they were never really into the .22 centre fires over there until the para military M15's, Ruger's Mini 14, etc. became popular and as that's where a lot of our rifles, ammo and trends come from, the little 222 has been pushed aside.

It's so much easier to get 223 cartridges, brass and data, let alone rifles these days.

Funny you say not as popular in the USA as here. In the book I have, by Warren Page, he had some roll in the development of the .222. Reading the book makes it sound like at that time (70s) it was king of bench rest shooting. I think he had 9 national bench rest shooting titles under his belt among other things.

 

[derwoodii]

here some good news i wonder who the lucky OZ chap was,,,,, nup not i must missed that call for a fund raiser

Brad Snelling says Nothing like giving away a $1,300 chainsaw on Christmas Day. The chainsaw forum I'm on raised more than $10,000 dollars to aid in paying the medical expenses for a member that nearly died earlier this year. I just held the drawing and a lucky guy in Australia is the proud owner of a brand new Masterminded MS461 chainsaw!