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Last Post Before Nationals! A Two Week Summary
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 experiencing my new buttplate to top it off. Sometimes life doesn’t always go to plan… A…
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Only 21 Days!
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 have to squeeze in both running it in, and also getting some load-development done. This…
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A Teams Match, a Sick Vic and a Super Score!
At some point last week, I was infected with a coughy, sneezy, goopy type of virus. I was hoping it would be all cleared up for Saturday’s shooting but no such luck. I woke up at 5am drenched in sweat, drowning in snot, coughing, snuffling and feeling more than just a little bit unwell. On top of this,…
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A Couple of Drowned Rats.
Hurrah for yet another big shooting weekend! I think at least three of the four seasons made an appearance with rain, sun, wind and *shock, horror!* dead calm. We thoroughly enjoyed the NZ Ladies longs (800, 900 and 1000 yards – organised by the ladies!) and had a soggy old time in the Karori 1000 yards…
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Fun in the Sun (and in the Wind, the Rain and a Small Hurricane) – More Trophies!
All blog posts need a starting point and this one starts with a glass of wine, a well deserved armchair and a proud and slightly jealous glance at all of Jared’s SIX new trophies from the weekend. Wellington Spring Meet The story starts early Saturday morning when we woke up to some uh… “weather” sweeping up…
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More Trophies! (In Which Vic and Jared Are Not Photogenic)
Well… it finally happened… after two years of smallbore shooting, Jared finally won a smallbore trophy! We had a great evening at the Upper Hutt Smallbore club end of season BBQ and prizegiving. Good company and a fun novelty shoot kept us entertained. Vic won the Hercock Bros Cup for the C Grade Aggregate (by…
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Road-Trips, Parties and Education!
Well… It seems that lately this blog has been all about artwork so here is a post (mostly) about shooting to balance it all out! Saturday – Club Day and Some Troubleshooting. For a while now, my rifle seems to have been stringing vertically. We noticed the problem just as nationals started last year but…
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Smallbore North Island Championships… The Good, the Bad, and Another Trophy!
Yep! Another weekend, another shooting adventure! This trip to Palmerston North for the North Island Smallbore Championships is very likely the last smallbore trip of the season. I am personally quite happy about this. Although I enjoy the discipline involved in shooting smallbore and all the wonderful friends that come with it, I dislike being trapped…
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A Slow Few Weeks…
It has been a while since our last post because the last few weeks have been a little quiet for team HotloadeD but here is a quick update anyway! We intended to take a month off smallbore in the lead-up to fullbore season (opening day today… yippee!) but it didn’t quite work out like that.…
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Interclub and Club night
Meet our new students, Kennie and Adele They have been shooting at the club for a couple of weeks. Adele is in a sling trying to remember what she learned during the secondary school shooting, and Kennie is her sister and has shot a couple of times off a rest. They haven’t really had anyone looking…