the all aussie dribble thread!

[460cixy]

Don't stress mate, just need to place one off hand into a dinner plate at 100 yards, plenty good enough anything better than that and your just a show off.....


yea I know but I'm not a very good shot but I can usually hit what I aiming for just not on the black dot.

Funny thing is Neil I can actually shoot off hand well I wobble round like an old mole but get the job done. One night I went out with a bloke for a shot jumped out of the ute and nailed six grass hopers with his 243 jumped back in light a smoke and off we went old mate had never seen anything like it

 

[windthrown]

I thought that only us Americans were gun freaks. My European friend come here and they all gawk at the stuff we can own. Never mind Canada, where they can only own a BB gun (even they may be outlawed there now). Going to Alaska we have to take the ferry because we cannot transport any guns through Canada (even long guns).

Also this talk of shooting thousands of rounds, that is thousands of dollars here now with the inflated price of ammo. Obama has pinched the importing of ammo into the US, so it had all doubled or tripled in price, even as gun prices have dropped steeply. I am sitting on a lot of ammo that I bough on sale before it all went up in price, but it is still hard to shoot it when it is this expensive. Even .22 long ammo is like .35 cents a round now. For a plinker... and that is if you can find any for sale. I can get .223 ammo for that price!

 

[MCW]

Funny thing is Neil I can actually shoot off hand well I wobble round like an old mole but get the job done. One night I went out with a bloke for a shot jumped out of the ute and nailed six grass hopers with his 243 jumped back in light a smoke and off we went old mate had never seen anything like it

Trigger/eye coordination is actually more important shooting offhand than staying steady. If you pull the trigger to match your wobbles then you'll shoot just as well as someone who is as steady as a rock.

 

[MCW]

I thought that only us Americans were gun freaks. My European friend come here and they all gawk at the stuff we can own. Never mind Canada, where they can only own a BB gun (even they may be outlawed there now). Going to Alaska we have to take the ferry because we cannot transport any guns through Canada (even long guns).

Also this talk of shooting thousands of rounds, that is thousands of dollars here now with the inflated price of ammo. Obama has pinched the importing of ammo into the US, so it had all doubled or tripled in price, even as gun prices have dropped steeply. I am sitting on a lot of ammo that I bough on sale before it all went up in price, but it is still hard to shoot it when it is this expensive. Even .22 long ammo is like .35 cents a round now. For a plinker... and that is if you can find any for sale. I can get .223 ammo for that price!

We're lucky in one way as Winchester Australia actually make .22LR here and we have a number of shotshell manufacturers. The centrefire stuff sucks though as that is basically all coming in from the US. I've noticed the biggest price hike on reloading components. Projectiles have gone through the roof but they were on their way up well before Sandy Hook. At the moment to load a .25/06 is costing me around $0.76 a shot. My .222 costs me around $0.35 a shot. The .44 Mag is about $0.55 with a decent projectile. Using cast slugs you could do it for about $0.30 a pop.

 

[ausneil 1]

I thought that only us Americans were gun freaks. My European friend come here and they all gawk at the stuff we can own. Never mind Canada, where they can only own a BB gun (even they may be outlawed there now). Going to Alaska we have to take the ferry because we cannot transport any guns through Canada (even long guns).

Also this talk of shooting thousands of rounds, that is thousands of dollars here now with the inflated price of ammo. Obama has pinched the importing of ammo into the US, so it had all doubled or tripled in price, even as gun prices have dropped steeply. I am sitting on a lot of ammo that I bough on sale before it all went up in price, but it is still hard to shoot it when it is this expensive. Even .22 long ammo is like .35 cents a round now. For a plinker... and that is if you can find any for sale. I can get .223 ammo for that price!

You sound like a benchrest shooter They throw the barrel out when it starts shooting worse than 1/4 MOA.
What calibre mate? Even my hot as hell .25/06 rounds still group pretty well after 2,500 rounds. My .22/250 40° Ackley still shoots 1/2 MOA after 1200 odd rounds. I've heard of benchrest shooters binning 6.5mm/.284 barrels after 1000 rounds but that's a pretty overbore cartridge and if they can't win a world title with it they chuck it away. Some of the big belted magnums are bloody hard on barrels. There is actually a barrel life calculator on one of the websites that is very interesting. It's apparently quite accurate too and relatively well proven. If you tick the "moly coated" box your barrel life goes up substantially and if it is true then it is well worth the extra expense of running moly coated projectiles.

There is also minute of angle and then there is minute of animal

Heard a classic tale the other week out the SARA range where one of the older guys is actually a full time pro shooter - great guy, has been around a long time, and is really interesting to talk to. He was up in the Flinders Ranges doing a goat cull a few years ago and a heap of floggers from Adelaide went up too. One of them was a very high profile benchrest shooter. Anyway this pro shooter reckons he was an absolute joke as he was gut shooting goats because he couldn't shoot for sh*t without resting on a bench then bouncing rounds off the rocks everywhere as he tried to finish them off. Most people would have assumed this guy could shoot the balls off a fly at 200m after reading some of his articles in some prominent gun magazines but alas. The guy at the gun range heard this bloke was coming and was really looking forward to shooting with him. Turns out that off a range he was useless.

Very imformative, this high profile bench rest shooter , does he have a black beard and loves a 22ppc with a well worn black stock, not naming names of coarse.


Well another Saturday and again race saws will fire up and cut something off, again split posts for sale and speed blocks decimated into dinner plates etc etc.
3 shows on the go today, Gloucester, Moree and Cumbungee in Qld, all happening in the ring again....

 

[ausneil 1]

We're lucky in one way as Winchester Australia actually make .22LR here and we have a number of shotshell manufacturers. The centrefire stuff sucks though as that is basically all coming in from the US. I've noticed the biggest price hike on reloading components. Projectiles have gone through the roof but they were on their way up well before Sandy Hook. At the moment to load a .25/06 is costing me around $0.76 a shot. My .222 costs me around $0.35 a shot. The .44 Mag is about $0.55 with a decent projectile. Using cast slugs you could do it for about $0.30 a pop.

Because I do not reload, I do pay more for ammo, I just don't have the time for reloading and I have had bullets reloaded from our local gun shop at a good price.
Can't even remember what I payed for 223 per hundred rounds but it wasn't that much and they have lasted as I don't hunt a lot now days. My boys shoot off more rounds in 1 afternoon than I would in a year, they get more than me too, like they hit a lots of rocks and trees, fence posts and their favourite seems to be star pickets, oh and if roos are still in the area they may well cope some lead as well.

 

[MCW]

Very imformative, this high profile bench rest shooter , does he have a black beard and loves a 22ppc with a well worn black stock, not naming names of course

No black beard but does love the 6mm PPC.

 

[windthrown]

I should start a Pacific Rim guns and chainsaws forum... opcorn:

 

[koomie]

Fast coming up to duck shooting here. I haven't been out shooting for probably 8 years at least. We ended up at my brother-in-laws in the lower North Island. We sat in a ditch right on dusk and managed to bag a few passing mallards and paradise shellducks.

I'm working opening weekend this year for a guy that shoots on a regular basis.

 

[MCW]

Fast coming up to duck shooting here. I haven't been out shooting for probably 8 years at least. We ended up at my brother-in-laws in the lower North Island. We sat in a ditch right on dusk and managed to bag a few passing mallards and paradise shellducks.

I'm working opening weekend this year for a guy that shoots on a regular basis.

Do you guys have to use steel over there? I've got my permit but haven't managed to get it this year yet. Steel is crap.

 

[windthrown]

Steel shot crap for sure. It is lighter than lead and lacks down range performance. Some firearms training centers here insist on shooting lead-free rounds as well, and that is even more spendy. Copper is also lighter and travels different than lead, so I do not use or train with it.

 

[ausneil 1]

No black beard but does love the 6mm PPC.

6mm PPC, sorry, gee I know my bench rest rifles. was thinking br--d-- a----s-n as the man in question.

 

[ausneil 1]

I should start a Pacific Rim guns and chainsaws forum... opcorn:

Best of luck with that idea mate, been a lot of chainsaw forums come and go. a couple of blokes have had a couple of goes at it.

 

[koomie]

Thankfully we only have to use steel while shooting over water. If we shoot on stubble paddocks you may still use lead shot.

 

[windthrown]

Best of luck with that idea mate, been a lot of chainsaw forums come and go. a couple of blokes have had a couple of goes at it.

Yah, I was a mod on TW for a while before Ekka went psychopath. I knew the people that sued that forum into extinction. Sadly I had a lot of posts over there that are gone now. Not unlike my old posts here on this forum after this forum was attacked. To avoid litigation I would have the servers in Tijuana, Mexico and bury myself in an limited liability corporation/LLC. The other forums all seem to be spin-offs of this site, with the same people, threads and posts. There are so many noobs here now this site is pretty useless. Also too many Canuks that claim to be experts at everything in the US.

 

[MCW]

6mm PPC, sorry, gee I know my bench rest rifles. was thinking br--d-- a----s-n as the man in question.

You're right with your guess but I don't recall a black beard. More like dark brown.

 

[ausneil 1]

ok here's a fail from last week at Wingham show, the 2100 I built at Christmas for another competitor. Its a lovely little saw and the owner should have years of great service from this hot saw.
result from that run,
non finish, destroyed race chain, possible personal injury.
Some of our resident experts should be able to ascertain why it failed in that run.

 

[MCW]

ok here's a fail from last week at Wingham show, the 2100 I built at Christmas for another competitor. Its a lovely little saw and the owner should have years of great service from this hot saw.
result from that run,
non finish, destroyed race chain, possible personal injury.
Some of our resident experts should be able to ascertain why it failed in that run.

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That's an easy one Neil. Because it's 120HP it should have been running 3/4" harvester chain.

 

[MCW]

Thankfully we only have to use steel while shooting over water. If we shoot on stubble paddocks you may still use lead shot.

You guys have all the fun.

 

[koomie]

Of course you can use any type of shot you like.

IF ya don't get caught