Vic and Jared's Shooting Adventures
Prologue It was a sunny crisp Canterbury day and in between the warbling of solid gold classics on the inferior taxi stereo, the news presenter was announcing the third significant earthquake of the week in the top of the South… (Read more)
Wow! It has been over two months since my last post and so much has happened – the most notable being a huge improvement in my shooting which I put down to both focused practice, and also to some very… (Read more)
Having been woken in the wee small hours of Friday morning by a small typhoon of rain and gales, we anxiously drifted in and out of sleep unsure whether at daybreak, the Wairarapa champs would still go ahead. The day dawned dark and… (Read more)
It has taken me three weeks to recover enough to blog about it… It was three days of laughter, tears, sun, wind, Aussies and an abundance of other clichés… It is the longest running event in the Southern Hemisphere… Presenting… The… (Read more)
Well… we are well into the swing of things and to be honest, even after two days of shooting, the Wellington Champs really does feel like the first real day of Nationals week. With competitors arriving from all over the… (Read more)
Yippee! It is Nationals week and we already have two days under our belts! For the last couple of days, we have been shooting the Wellington and National 300 metres championships. This is an ammunition-heavy event covering two days with… (Read more)
Club Day 27th December – 300 Yards Yippee!!! My barrel has finally been run-in and with a gorgeous yet windy day eventuating on Saturday, I was looking forward to a good club-day shoot with a cheeky bit of load-development and properly… (Read more)
The Dilemma So as you all probably know by now, we will both be shooting at the Australian Queens in June with myself also being reserve for the NRANZ Ladies team. If you didn’t know, you can find more about… (Read more)
A Fern Well… it has been a couple of big days here at HotloadeD with the bubbly flowing freely to celebrate Vic’s selection as reserve to the NRANZ Ladies rifle team to shoot the Collinson shield in Australia in July. This… (Read more)
Yep 21 days till the first shots get fired in the national’s week, and… well… we are not organised in the slightest! Vic’s rifle is away getting re-barrelled (now returned since writing this post – more on this later!) so we… (Read more)
