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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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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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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…
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Vic Shooting
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zgRksMxDXps&index=1&list=UUmapgkLHvNDloNNpWGaMQdg
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Lower North Island Regional Championships
Small-bore is our off season and is generally not taken that seriously, but who can resist the challenge of competitions, good fun and a bit of practice with head space. I tend to find it helps give a bit of purpose to my shooting. The Lower North Island Regional Championships is a series of 6…
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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…
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Vic and Jareds Shooting Adventures
Hi and Welcome to HotloadeD! This is our blog based on our experiences of shooting in New Zealand. It is a little bit opinion, a little bit fact, a little bit fun and a lot self promotion! We are Vic and Jared McMurdo. We are target shooters. We shoot fullbore (.308) in the summer and…