Guns
A Safe Maximum?
By Matthew Camerom- 21st Jan, 2020
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If the rules are followed, processing components into useful ammunition is not all that difficult. In columns like this, and in the reloading manuals...
Setting up a budget-priced scope for long range .22lr shooting –
By Simon Gillice- 13th Jan, 2020
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Shooting a .22lr is a great way to improve your shooting, it’s relatively cheap, quiet, low recoil...
Rob’s Reloading Ramblings - The Old and the New
By Rob Bedingfield- 6th Jan, 2020
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Two antiques have a good day out...!
Custom Rifle Series Part 1: Why Build a Custom Rig?
By Frazer Winskill- 23rd Dec, 2019
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Frazer Winskill takes us through the process of building or buying your own custom rifle...
Custom Rifle Series Part 2: Factory Rifles and Factory-modified Rifles
By Frazer Winskill- 23rd Dec, 2019
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Modification comes down to purpose nine times out of ten in New Zealand...
Realistic Expectations
By Matthew Cameron- 6th Dec, 2019
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Matthew Cameron’s tips for straighter shooting...
Accuracy is all about Consistency
By Evan Honore- 8th Nov, 2019
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Over the last five years I have worked with the rifles listed below...
Custom Rifle Series Part 4: Factory Custom Rifles, Proof Research Switch
By Frazer Winskill- 31st Oct, 2019
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In part 4 of the custom rifle series I am going to look at two or three ‘off the shelf’ options available in NZ...
Modern Load Development
By Matthew Cameron- 22nd Oct, 2019
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Cartridge load development was once a simpler task that it is today...
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By Phil Day- 21st Oct, 2019
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In the last ten plus years shooting steel targets has become popular for fun or practice...
Custom Rifle Series Part 3: Semi-Custom Rifles
By Frazer Winskill- 17th Sep, 2019
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In the last article we established that the average factory rifle produces around a 32mm group out of the box...
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Reuben Jane
Reuben and his daughter Ruby (11) carry out the meat after a successful goat hunt!
Alex Allwright
Alex with a solid fallow buck harvested on New Years Day 2020! Alex shoots a Remington Model 700 chambered in .243 Win.
Ralph McLeay
Ralph, and Zorro the dog, secured this monster red stag during a hunt in the Raetihi area! Ralph shoots a Tikka T3 chambered in .270 Win. topped with a Zeiss Conquest 3-9x40 scope.
Brett Stokman
Brett with a tidy red stag harvested during a hunt in the Kaimai Ranges. Brett shoots a Ruger American Ranch Rifle chambered in .450!
Mariana Puarere
Mariana (13) with her first deer! A fallow buck that she dropped with a clean 180m shot using her Dad's Mossberg chambered in 6.5 Creedmoor and fitted with a Bushnell Forge 2.5-15x50 scope!
Hannah Fowler
Hannah Fowler with her first red stag shot just on dark with her .25-06. Hannah adds that there is better way of keeping her away from the shops on Boxing Day than out hunting!
WINNER: NZGUNS One Year Subscription!
Tessa Boyd
Tessa Boyd (8) shot her very first animal using a Red Dot; an old scarred up trophy buck hare during a hunt at Charlies Hut, Glenfalloch Station.
WINNER: NZGUNS One Year Subscription!
Dylan Boyd
Dylan Boyd (7) shot 2 young rabbits that the Boyd family cooked up for breakfast!
Steven Porter
Steven Porter secured this monster 12pt red stag during a hunt last week. Steve shoots a Tikka chambered in .243 with Federal Fusions.
Jordan Jefferis
Jordan Jefferis with a couple of red stags for the chiller!
Marty Tapp
Marty carries out the hindquarters of a red deer after a successful meat hunt!
Leighton Mehlhopt
Leighton with a fallow spiker destined for the freezer!
Blake Crawford
Cousins Blake Crawford (17), Henry Harvey (7) and dog "Ted" on a recent hunting trip!
Piper Rickey
Piper Rickey (8) with her first deer! A young fallow doe that she harvested with her Dad’s Howa .223 Rem.
Angus McIntyre
Angus McIntyre took this awesome photo of a white fallow buck!
Evan Fleming
Evan Fleming (7) with his very first rabbit. Shot using his Grand-dad’s CZ 455.
Jesse Eagers-James
Jesse Eagers-James secured this tidy 9.5" chamois buck with his Sako Finnlight chambered in .243 Win.
WINNER: Bushnell Prime 10x25 Binos!