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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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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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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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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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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…