Sport
Bench Rest Shooting: The Grendel
OAP The Grendel I bought this to be a useful target rifle, but I miscalculated. It has several weaknesses and overcoming these for a club competition rifle is an ongoing problem. It is the light sporter model with a contoured barrel, it has an impossibly heavy trigger and the stock
Bench Rest Shooting: Handloading for Accuracy
OAP In rimfire shooting, there is little you can do to work on the compatibility of rifle and ammunition except to try a box of every brand and variation you can find. Clean the barrel between each box and fire ten fouling shots before you start to measure group sizes.
Face of the Day
Lisa Carrington became New Zealand’s most prolific Olympic medallist on Thursday when she won gold in the canoe sprint women’s K1 500 final in Tokyo – her third gold of the Games. The victory gave Carrington her sixth Olympic medal and fifth gold, pushing her to the top of
The Gender Identity ‘Loophole’
Ro Edge NZ Spokesperson Save Women’s Sport Australasia Laurel Hubbard wasn’t the first transgender individual to compete in the female category of the Tokyo Olympics, nor is Laurel the only one who will do so. And if the trans lobby has their way, we will see many, many
The Trans Gender Sports Debate
On July 26th, I skyped my brother in the UK. It was his birthday. Inevitably, the subject of the Olympics came up, and knowing that I am a sports fanatic, he asked if I was watching. I said no. “What? Not the sailing, the rugby, the equestrian? Not those divers
Face of the Day
How does one describe Lisa Carrington? I’m not very good with words so I won’t even try. She is now equal with 3 other NZers with the amount of Olympic medals she has won with 5. Lisa still has 2 events to go. She is the only kiwi
The BFD Nightcap
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Mental Health?
Have you noticed how nobody is allowed to be sad any more? Depressed? Grieving? No. Today, everything is about mental health. If you are struggling at work, it is because of your mental health, not because you might not be up to the job. If you can’t get out
The Real Reason TVNZ Cut Away from the Olympics
News media reported the other day that TVNZ cut way from its Olympics coverage to run an ad break instead. Here is how the NZ Herald reported it: TVNZ has decided to stay quiet after copping criticism for flicking to an ad break during a moment of silence in the
The Lucky Country
Sir Bob Jones nopunchespulled.com In these troubled times a massive salve has been provided by sport and no more so than in Australia, the so-called lucky country. For me, the greatest game of all is test cricket and while Aussies may feel otherwise, they were privileged, as were we
Face of the Day
On Saturday, the International Olympic Committee said it would back a biological man, transgender weightlifter Laurel Hubbard’s entry into the Tokyo Games. But what about the biological woman who lost her place to him? Tracey Lambrechs is the woman who lost her place to a man. Before lifting for