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Yay! a Weekend at Home! (But not a quiet one!)
Just because we are in Wellington doesn’t mean that it is going to be a cruisy weekend… no… we had lots on and it went like this… The Back Story When we were in Blenheim, Malcolm was kind enough to let us use his bore scope. Jared wanted to see the state of his barrel,…
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Roadtrip to Te Puke.
Go shoot In Tauranga they said… It will be warm they said… Well, it turns out that the hospitality of the locals can’t be beaten. To make us feel at home, they even put on magnificent Wellington weather – complete with frost, wind, rain, sun and hail. We aren’t complaining – We had an absolute…
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A Sunny Overseas Adventure (Part 2)
(Part 1 here) Day 2 We woke up quite stiff and sore from the excitement of the last couple of days. It has been a while since we have had a full day of shooting and we were both feeling a little beaten up. Once again, Blenheim has put on a splendid morning for us.…
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A Sunny Overseas Adventure (Part 1)
Anticip…. …ation Two thirty pea em. I wandered over to the window and gazed out over the harbour. Through sheets of squally rain, I could just make out the approaching ferry grinding its way through the white caps. I started to feel excited… in another hour, the long weekend would begin and we would be awaiting…
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Silver, Sickness and Storms in Sunny Marlborough – A Novelette
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 Island. This only served to fuel my excitement. Work was over for a few days…
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Revelations, Modifications and more Trophies!
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 minor modifications to my rifle which seem to have made a rather considerable difference! I…
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Wairarapa Championships
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 foreboding, but the forecast promised improving conditions so down went the coffee, into the car…
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Nationals – Day 6, 7 and 8 – Ballinger Belt!
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 Ballinger Belt 2015! (from Vic’s perspective) Day 1 300y We were both feeling surprisingly chipper after…
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Nationals – Day 3 – WRA Champs
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 country and in some cases, the world, the shooting village is starting to hum and…
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Nationals – Day 1 and 2 – 300m
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 60 counting shots plus unlimited sighters fired in just one and a half hours each…