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More Trophies! (In Which Vic and Jared Are Not Photogenic)
Well… it finally happened… after two years of smallbore shooting, Jared finally won a smallbore trophy! We had a great evening at the Upper Hutt Smallbore club end of season BBQ and prizegiving. Good company and a fun novelty shoot kept us entertained. Vic won the Hercock Bros Cup for the C Grade Aggregate (by…
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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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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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Interclub and Club night
Meet our new students, Kennie and Adele They have been shooting at the club for a couple of weeks. Adele is in a sling trying to remember what she learned during the secondary school shooting, and Kennie is her sister and has shot a couple of times off a rest. They haven’t really had anyone looking…
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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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Horewhenua Champs and Vic and Jareds Showdown…
The tension in the car was noticeable on the drive up to the Poroutawhao range north of Levin. Today was the final event in the Wellington Provincial Championships where the best 5 scores of 6 events throughout the season count for the trophy. By our (possibly faulty) calculations, I was in the lead in C…
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Cake! (A Grumpy-Pants Birthday Shoot)
This post is all about cake… cake at smallbore clubnight… delicious cake… And maybe some shooting…* Yesterday was my birthday so it was my turn take cake to smallbore. Having no time to bake a cake, I selected a cake from the bakery section of our local supermarket. It was a delicious looking cake. A…
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National Indoor Smallbore Championship and a PB.
Feeling tired but happy after my 30th birthday party last night, we headed off to the Royal Tiger range in Newtown, Wellington for the national indoor small bore championships. For the un-initiated, the national championships is shot on the same day at 13 venues around the country – cuts down on travelling for everyone! We never really…
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Manawatu Smallbore Champs, Training, Clubday, Interclub and more!
This week has been a big shooting week! It started with the Manawatu championships on Saturday. We drove to Palmerston North in the morning and arrived at the range at around 11am. I had come down with a head cold on the Friday and was feeling very unwell so although Jared was raring to go…