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Silver, Sickness and Storms in Sunny Marlborough – A Novelette
Prologue It was a sunny crisp Canterbury day and in between the warbling of solid gold classics on the inferior taxi stereo, the news presenter was announcing the third significant earthquake of the week in the top of the South Island. This only served to fuel my excitement. Work was over for a few days…
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Revelations, Modifications and more Trophies!
Wow! It has been over two months since my last post and so much has happened – the most notable being a huge improvement in my shooting which I put down to both focused practice, and also to some very minor modifications to my rifle which seem to have made a rather considerable difference! I…
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Wairarapa Championships
Having been woken in the wee small hours of Friday morning by a small typhoon of rain and gales, we anxiously drifted in and out of sleep unsure whether at daybreak, the Wairarapa champs would still go ahead. The day dawned dark and foreboding, but the forecast promised improving conditions so down went the coffee, into the car…
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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…