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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…
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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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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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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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AGM and Prize Giving
I am not very good at writing about myself so this may be one of the harder posts that I will have to write. I’m not the best at this at the best of times, but here it goes. The day started easily enough with the AGM until the election of officers when some bright…