Sittin here with time to spare.
Not a range story but one in the field.
Misso, a stinkin copper these days, and i were out huntin years back. Lookin for Waragul in a sand drift on one of our old shooting properties. Didn't see a dog all day, but some dumb old boar stuck his head up and sniffed our scent and bolted through some thick stuff. We ran off after him but had to go round while he went through the shit. Running in sand in 40 degrees even when back in those days we were both fit from the army was just draining our energy. Anyway the sucker had to come out in the clear and when he did i drilled him neat in the chest with the old trusty 308. Fell like a lightning bolt were he had stood.
Walked on over to take a pickie and check out the ivory and after that we both sat on top of the dead beast to take a breather and have a drink of water from our bottles. Misso makes the first move and gets up and begins to walk off. I stood up and then reached down to pick up the rifle which was laying across the pigs chest when i spot his eye looking directly at me. He instantly sprung to his feet with his uppers and lowers grinding with that sound all who have hunted pigs know well, and with me recoiling backwards he began a charge at less than five feet. I was well and truly going to get the shit chomped out of me.
To this day i will never know two things. One, how the fuck Misso got the shot off and killed it dead, this time, in such a short time span. And secondly, how did a supposed dead pig allow two people to sit on its carcass for what must have been more than ten minutes, and not give itself away. We drank water, Misso had a smoke and we talked shit for all that time and it never moved or breathed in such a way that we could detect. Those who know me well, know i have shot a large number of pigs, mostly boars, but this is the only one that sticks in my mind even though i have been chased and charged by heaps of angry pigs in my time. This one was different. It was cunning, something i had never seen before or since.
Tony Z.
Any Know it alls @ the range.???
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theMISSIONARY
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we had a very odd little man that use to shoot full-bore with us (when i live in Tassie)
he comes to the range to scope in his SMLE....yep OK he had been on about putting a scope on.....well the thing would not shoot went all over the show.
so being the helpful bloke i am i went to see if he had the mounts on right........well do chunks of rubber with a hold count as mounts
that's right he cut some chunks of rubber stuck them to the bridge some how and moved the scope about in the rubber to get it on "target"
he was told to take it home until he put some rings on the bridge..
he comes to the range to scope in his SMLE....yep OK he had been on about putting a scope on.....well the thing would not shoot went all over the show.
so being the helpful bloke i am i went to see if he had the mounts on right........well do chunks of rubber with a hold count as mounts
that's right he cut some chunks of rubber stuck them to the bridge some how and moved the scope about in the rubber to get it on "target"
he was told to take it home until he put some rings on the bridge..
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trevort
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I was at the range today sighting in for 300m. My rifle wasnt built to do it, it was set up to be a spotlighting rifle, but what the heck. Anyway, i was pretty stoked about getting shots on paper out that far.
A couple of benches away were two blokes chatting in what sounded like Russian. Had the chrony set up shooting a sako.
When i brought my target in he came and asked what scope (4-16X50 Burris Black Diamond). Its not powerful enough to shoot out there he says, you should get a Barska (it was a bargain at $200) like mine.
Hmmm I thought and said thanks for the advice!
A couple of benches away were two blokes chatting in what sounded like Russian. Had the chrony set up shooting a sako.
When i brought my target in he came and asked what scope (4-16X50 Burris Black Diamond). Its not powerful enough to shoot out there he says, you should get a Barska (it was a bargain at $200) like mine.
Hmmm I thought and said thanks for the advice!
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theMISSIONARY
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LOL@HIM as long as the centre is bigger than my cross hairs(so i have a point to aim at) i just use my 7X50 meopta......i shot a year of scope class next to the fullbore fellas with a 4-12x40trevort wrote:I was at the range today sighting in for 300m. My rifle wasnt built to do it, it was set up to be a spotlighting rifle, but what the heck. Anyway, i was pretty stoked about getting shots on paper out that far.
A couple of benches away were two blokes chatting in what sounded like Russian. Had the chrony set up shooting a sako.
When i brought my target in he came and asked what scope (4-16X50 Burris Black Diamond). Its not powerful enough to shoot out there he says, you should get a Barska (it was a bargain at $200) like mine.
Hmmm I thought and said thanks for the advice!
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ant
G'day Damien, try this one on for size. Bit of background for the other forum members I have 2 daughters 14 & 17. Daughter 17 usually beats her sister by one or two points per shoot, and lets her know all the way home. We shoot smallbore.
Anway last weekend 17 was away and we were shooting at another range. One old dickhead was giving me a hard time over the ammo I was using (SK magazine) tells me there is nothing but Eley. (To each their own.) Any way 14 shot 248 from a possible 250 with the Match 54. Next closest was 238. When it came to my turn the 10 ring was looking like a dinner plate and when I came to the last target I aimed off and shot a one hole group on the 9 ring. a score of 245. The purpose was so that 14 could go home with bragging rights for the day, but the old dickhead saw all five shots as fliers and blamed the SK ammo.
Proving there are some real knobs out there.
See you at the range
Ant
Anway last weekend 17 was away and we were shooting at another range. One old dickhead was giving me a hard time over the ammo I was using (SK magazine) tells me there is nothing but Eley. (To each their own.) Any way 14 shot 248 from a possible 250 with the Match 54. Next closest was 238. When it came to my turn the 10 ring was looking like a dinner plate and when I came to the last target I aimed off and shot a one hole group on the 9 ring. a score of 245. The purpose was so that 14 could go home with bragging rights for the day, but the old dickhead saw all five shots as fliers and blamed the SK ammo.
Proving there are some real knobs out there.
See you at the range
Ant
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theMISSIONARY
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lol omg there are some out there......IMHO you find the ammo to suit the rifle in rim firesant wrote:G'day Damien, try this one on for size. Bit of background for the other forum members I have 2 daughters 14 & 17. Daughter 17 usually beats her sister by one or two points per shoot, and lets her know all the way home. We shoot smallbore.
Anway last weekend 17 was away and we were shooting at another range. One old dickhead was giving me a hard time over the ammo I was using (SK magazine) tells me there is nothing but Eley. (To each their own.) Any way 14 shot 248 from a possible 250 with the Match 54. Next closest was 238. When it came to my turn the 10 ring was looking like a dinner plate and when I came to the last target I aimed off and shot a one hole group on the 9 ring. a score of 245. The purpose was so that 14 could go home with bragging rights for the day, but the old dickhead saw all five shots as fliers and blamed the SK ammo.
Proving there are some real knobs out there.
See you at the range
Ant
sounds like you have some champions on your hands
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kjd
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Champion LoL I'd like to think of him as more of an Owner/Operator!theMISSIONARY wrote:lol omg there are some out there......IMHO you find the ammo to suit the rifle in rim firesant wrote:G'day Damien, try this one on for size. Bit of background for the other forum members I have 2 daughters 14 & 17. Daughter 17 usually beats her sister by one or two points per shoot, and lets her know all the way home. We shoot smallbore.
Anway last weekend 17 was away and we were shooting at another range. One old dickhead was giving me a hard time over the ammo I was using (SK magazine) tells me there is nothing but Eley. (To each their own.) Any way 14 shot 248 from a possible 250 with the Match 54. Next closest was 238. When it came to my turn the 10 ring was looking like a dinner plate and when I came to the last target I aimed off and shot a one hole group on the 9 ring. a score of 245. The purpose was so that 14 could go home with bragging rights for the day, but the old dickhead saw all five shots as fliers and blamed the SK ammo.
Proving there are some real knobs out there.
See you at the range
Ant
sounds like you have some champions on your hands
I agree with you that the rimfires pick what ammo they want to shot you don't pick it for them!
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I was sighting in at SSAA range one day and the guy shooting next to me struggling to open his bolt and asked for a hand, anyway we got the bolt open and I had a look at the case, first at the primer which looked OKI then had a look at the pointy end and the neck was very very short. It turns out this rocket scientist had been firing 300WM ammo in a 300 Weatherby !!
Very scarey
Matt P
Very scarey
Matt P
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theMISSIONARY
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lol i have some .303Savage case here that were fired in a .303(british)Matt P wrote:I was sighting in at SSAA range one day and the guy shooting next to me struggling to open his bolt and asked for a hand, anyway we got the bolt open and I had a look at the case, first at the primer which looked OKI then had a look at the pointy end and the neck was very very short. It turns out this rocket scientist had been firing 300WM ammo in a 300 Weatherby !!
Very scarey
Matt P
they look different
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243redmist
This person will remain nameless but lets say he is well known in my area
1.Got kicked out of his local pistol club for shooting through the club house.he was sighting in his 270 win at 50yds when he
"THOUGHT" i want to go out to 100yds so he set up his bench in the car park and shot thought the club house.
2.Same fella at my local club turned up with the same gun set up a target @100yds pulled the trigger and it when click myself and my mate were ingrossed in conversation when my mate heard a stange fizzing sound coming from the rifle we watched him start to lift the bolt on his gun when my mate who is all guts "and i mean that he's 120kg" leapt over there and stoped the dickhead from opening the bolt just as he did that the gun when off F'ING scary.
3.Same dickhead was at the local shotgun club at the monthly trap shot with his SxS when one of his reloads went poof and the shot fell out of the end of the barrel the ref stop him and asked him clear his barrels on looking down the left hand barrel the ref seen the wad stuck half way down the barrel
he told the dickhead to wait till he got a rod mr dickhead then says no it's ok i wont use that barrel ref reminds dickhead that it's a double barrel
event dick said i wont use that barrel and stuck a live shell in it .
what scary is these types of people drive,breathe,drink water and ffffff'ing vote.
1.Got kicked out of his local pistol club for shooting through the club house.he was sighting in his 270 win at 50yds when he
"THOUGHT" i want to go out to 100yds so he set up his bench in the car park and shot thought the club house.
2.Same fella at my local club turned up with the same gun set up a target @100yds pulled the trigger and it when click myself and my mate were ingrossed in conversation when my mate heard a stange fizzing sound coming from the rifle we watched him start to lift the bolt on his gun when my mate who is all guts "and i mean that he's 120kg" leapt over there and stoped the dickhead from opening the bolt just as he did that the gun when off F'ING scary.
3.Same dickhead was at the local shotgun club at the monthly trap shot with his SxS when one of his reloads went poof and the shot fell out of the end of the barrel the ref stop him and asked him clear his barrels on looking down the left hand barrel the ref seen the wad stuck half way down the barrel
he told the dickhead to wait till he got a rod mr dickhead then says no it's ok i wont use that barrel ref reminds dickhead that it's a double barrel
event dick said i wont use that barrel and stuck a live shell in it .
what scary is these types of people drive,breathe,drink water and ffffff'ing vote.
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Some time ago, a shooter turned up at Silverdale range to shoot casually, and when asked what calibre he had, declared that it was a 303 Variable.
Rangemaster Barry Warwick asked what this meant, and he said that it was chambered to shoot anything from 303/22 through to full 303. Oh really?
They thought he was kidding until the fired brass that was appearing on the bench confirmed that he was indeed putting all and sundry through the old 303.
Fortunately, he did no harm to anybody, and did not understand what the problem was.
Rangemaster Barry Warwick asked what this meant, and he said that it was chambered to shoot anything from 303/22 through to full 303. Oh really?
They thought he was kidding until the fired brass that was appearing on the bench confirmed that he was indeed putting all and sundry through the old 303.
Fortunately, he did no harm to anybody, and did not understand what the problem was.