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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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Bumper Stickers!
Yippee! HotloadeD bumper stickers! We have now reached the upper echelons of self-promotion and bragging coolness… Go us! 😀 Here they are ready to be cut up and distributed. They are going fast (hot pink has already gone!). Soon we will have every colour under the sun in many sizes. If you ask us nicely (or…
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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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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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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…
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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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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…