I got the latest 'Hunting & Fishing' advertiser magazine yesterday.
So many toys, so little money!
One gadget that caught my eye was a torch that gave of the precise wavelengths of light to highlight a blood trail on the ground.
Other clever gadgets are LEDS torches that go for hundreds of hours on a battery and weigh almost nothing, a portable gas & battery powered shower and laser rangefinders.
How did I ever get by without a self-inflating mattress, a GPS or a backpack hydration system filled with isotonic carbohydrate/electrolyte fluid replacement?
Must have been by sleeping on a groundsheet, knowing how to read a map and drinking out of the bloody creek!
There are some pretty impressive rifle/scope packages available today and for very good prices.
I often see blokes turning up at our range to sight these new pieces in. It's quite painful watching someone turn up with a new Weatherby and fail to shoot a 100 meter group under 150mm.
And such fun to shoot a similar group with an open-sighted lever action .45!
5 comments:
A 150+mm group at 100m??
My Weatherby .308 will do a lot better than that. If I couldn't get around 35mm (prone) at that range I'd shoot meself, not the bloody target.
KG you can't compare a lever action with iron sights with a bolt action with (presumably) telescopic sights.
If you want to get really serious about shooting tight groups about entering this competition
The CANBERRA 500m FLY SHOOT
Andrei, I wasn't comparing the two--I was comparing what my Weatherby is capable of with the groups Oswald said other Weatherby owners were getting.My wife has a Marlin .357 levergun and at anything past 80m the groups aren't wonderful.
But then, that's not what the rifle is for, is it?
I'm saying you can give some folks a fine rifle and they would be better having one with a bayonet fitted!
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