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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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Learning to See Again – In Which Vic Uses Trigonometry.
Wow! Is this what normal people see when they shoot? I can’t believe how much I have been missing all this time! I think I should probably start at the beginning… Prologue It is 4am on a Saturday. I am exhausted but too excited to go back to sleep. Our new Centra sights arrived yesterday…
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Pre-Season Preparations #1 – Outriggers!
It is that time of the year again – time to gather together the rifle-related paraphenalia from all corners of the house, time to reassemble the reloading bench and time to think about investing in new tools and toys. Yep! Spring is coming. It is only a month until full-bore season starts, and already the sensuous smell…
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We’re baaaack!
A couple of weeks ago, I got asked whether HotloadeD is no more, bereft of life, has ceased to be?! Well… sort of. But I think I would prefer the term “In hibernation”. Never fear! We have been shooting our little hearts out! I have also become rather familiar with many of New Zealands airports…
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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…