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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…
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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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3d Printing. Phase One – The Prototype…
The Dilemma So as you all probably know by now, we will both be shooting at the Australian Queens in June with myself also being reserve for the NRANZ Ladies team. If you didn’t know, you can find more about it here. As well as the normal preparation that this will require, we have discovered…
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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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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…