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The REAL Start to the Full-Bore Season
This weekend felt like the proper opening day of the season. Both Vic and I had our new stocks, Vic also had shiny new electronic earmuffs, and with the Palma team training at the range, the place was buzzing and it was a great opportunity to catch up with friends and acquaintances from all over the country…
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Vics New Stock!
It arrived! It arrived! My new NF Stock arrived yesterday and I had a fun filled evening playing with it and trying everything out… I am delighted with it! Progress was somewhat hampered because we couldn’t find any bolts small enough for the butt-plate but we temporarily secured it with some cable ties. My first…
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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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In which Vic can’t believe her eyes.
I got a text message on Friday morning informing me that my new lens was ready to pick up from the optometrist. The original plan was that if the lens was ready, Jared would pick it up after work. I think we both knew that was never going to be the case. I ran to…
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A Trip to the Optometrist!
As some of you may know, I have been struggling with my sighting for a while now. For those who aren’t in the loop, when you use aperture sights, the aim is to line up the target, the foresight element and the rear sight in perfect alignment. It should look roughly like the picture below……
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A New Toy and an Update on Our Stocks!
Well… I did promise… While we were at the Horowhenua Championships on the weekend, Jared took the opportunity to view (and buy) a second-hand full-bore rifle. He had already pretty much committed to buying it before seeing it so we were very excited to see what he had ended up with! The rifle belonged to…
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Vics Trigger Dilemma… and Solution!
Well… for a while I have been wanting a new trigger for my fullbore rifle. Not that there was anything particularly wrong with my old one… except that it is 33 years old, has about a 3kg pull on it (maybe a slight exaggeration but not much!) and is getting to the age where it…
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New Rifles?
We started the season with one rifle to share between us, this was a 1981 Barnard (possibly the first of its kind or even a prototype!) with a stuffed barrel on an old timber stock. We picked it up for $350 and by the time we had a new barrel fitted it had cost us…