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A Fern, a Barrel and a Week of Getting on Top of Things
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 will mean we are both heading to the Australian Queens! I will go to support…
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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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“Mexican Match”
For a while, we have been asking around for some ADI brass. We know it isn’t the greatest brass in the world, but it is cheap and this year we would really REALLY like to have enough brass to not have to reload during nationals week! We have a load developed with Lapua brass for…
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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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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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Painting our Stocks (Part 4… Clear Coat!)
I would like to say that we woke up this morning to glorious sunshine, low humidity, a dawn chorus and perfect painting conditions. Unfortunately, what we actually woke up to was the melodious music of rain on the roof and some rather soggy sounding birds. As usual, we rolled over and went back to sleep. At…
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Painting our Stocks (Part 3 – Airbrushing Vic’s Stock!)
The saga of the stocks continues with a frantic couple of evening’s work to get Vic’s stock ready for clear-coating on Friday (weather permitting). It is a bit of a mission juggling the painting around work. I manage to g. If the weather holds for Friday, I might need to take a day off (or…
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Painting our Stocks (Part 2)
What a big weekend! Beautiful shooting weather on Saturday with sunshine and a fairly steady NW wind for a shoot at 300m on decimal targets! We each shot a 20 shot string and then continued with another 40 shots each – partly for load-development and partly for practice (and 100% for fun!). Jared beat me by one…
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Painting Our Stocks (Part 1)
Sunday dawned – cold but clear. The rising sun streamed through the window and caressed my slumbering self. I awoke at once, leapt out of bed and declared, “today is the day for painting our stocks!”. (actually… what really happened is that I rolled over, pulled the blankets over my head in defense against the…