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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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Vic Shooting
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zgRksMxDXps&index=1&list=UUmapgkLHvNDloNNpWGaMQdg
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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…