AusVarmint

Will put this review here as it will get used when I go camping and shooting. Bought a new Stihl MSA200 electric saw. Very impressed with first test run. Should be handy when camping and around the home. Planning to recharge it from my 12V to 240v inverter when on the road. https://www.youtube.com/w...

They still look good Barry, wish mine looked as good.
Will get around to using that bit of wood later in year hopefully.
Bruce

Well it works.
A bit of glue and a rub, it will be better than new.

Bruce

Good pics. What distance were the deer?

Bruce

Nice.
Lots of red ears

Bruce

fenring wrote: ↑Sun Jan 10, 2021 5:15 pm Hares certainly hold a lot of blood.

Yeah. The entry and exit holes were just punctures and closed up and the chest cavity was full of blood. Disapointed I couldn't recover the pellet.

:hunting: Neighbour asked me to cull a couple of hares that are chewing on his young trees in the garden. He is on a few acres surrounded by a dairy farm. Went up at sunrise this morning with the HW100 .22 and saw one loping around the garden so I snuck through the carport and waited for him to come...

Nice work Ned.
Any pictures with metal work fitted?

Bruce

Working on a project this week after seeing some 18v battery adaptors on Ebay. Looked like a good idea so created a design in Fusion 360 and printed out the parts to fit my Dewalt 18v batteries. Mounted a cig socket on one and a 10w led floodlight on another. A lot of led lights are 12-24v so can ha...

Tony thanks for some background info. This has the micro groove barrel, unfortunately there is a lot of pitting in a barrel that has not done much work. Shot ok for hunting with ammo it came with. Tried some 53gn vmax I loaded and they went through target sideways, 1:14 not fast enough twist. Loaded...

Its taken me over 40 years but I finally bought my first Sako. A Sako Vixen in 222mag. I was supposed to be making a few $ cleaning up the stock but after some purchase mentoring from Barry I ended up paying him.[emoji848][emoji848][emoji23]. Have fitted a Zeiss 4-14 Conquest. It works. Bruce https:...

barryb wrote: ↑Wed Sep 02, 2020 7:21 am Hey B4408 , don't put anything down on a Pard Bruce , just have a look at this one with your name on it.

Don't need it , already have a Pard S35 sitting here. Even came with a rifle.

Bruce

Thanks for the kind comments guys. I enjoy the work and challenge and do a bit each afternoon after work. May have to start upgrading my own rifles now that I have practiced on others.
Need to get the checkering tools out this summer.
Bruce

Ol 55 wrote: ↑Mon Aug 17, 2020 8:06 am Bloody nice job Bruce, did you 3D print the butt pad?
You home Baz?
Ol 55

Yep

With one of its mates.
The tools I use to do most of the work , plus a router and belt sander.
Bruce