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Benchrest: The Nuts and Bolts Part 2

Benchrest: The Nuts and Bolts Part 2

OAP The rests. Having dealt with the choice of scope, it is time to consider the rests. If you can’t see it, you can’t hit it.  If you haven’t got a steady rest, you cant hit it either. In the photo above, you will notice the foreground

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NBA Finals: Wokest, Brokest Ever

NBA Finals: Wokest, Brokest Ever

How woke do you have to be to break one of the biggest sporting franchises on the planet? Just ask LeBron James. Having chugged the BLM Kool-Aid by the gallon, James has been on a Crusade of Wokeness apparently designed to outdo Colin Kaepernick, Alyssa Milano and Greta Thunberg rolled

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Benchrest: The Nuts and Bolts

Benchrest: The Nuts and Bolts

OAP What gear do you need? While all clubs have club owned rifles, very few will have them set up for bench shooting. The rifle. Any current target .22 except the BSA.  The reason being that they don’t have a dovetail mount on the receiver for the sight sets.

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Benchrest.  Yes, but How?
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Benchrest. Yes, but How?

OAP Before I start waffling on about my pet subject, I will spend today answering some questions that came up in the comments on my article last week. Firstly, you don’t need a Firearms Licence to take part.  You would be under the close supervision of a qualified person

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Benchrest Shooting: the Search for the Ultimate in Accuracy
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Benchrest Shooting: the Search for the Ultimate in Accuracy

OAP It looks simple, a bunch of mostly elderly people sitting at tables with their rifles supported front and rear blasting away at a target at the end of a long hall. They are mostly those, like me, who are finding it difficult to lie down to shoot off their

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Our Queen of Corona

Our Queen of Corona

With sincere apologies to Paul Simon, our very own “Queen of Corona”, through the medium of Chris Hipkins, has warned the Mt Roskill Evangelical Church congregation that the teachings from their Christian bible, delivered from the church pulpit, is misleading and that the only source of truth is delivered from

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Labour Dropped the Ball…again!

Labour Dropped the Ball…again!

What a bunch of killjoys in the Labour Party. We have now been denied the chance to hold the Rugby Championship. Of course, don’t for one moment think it was solely their doing. They have all these so-called health experts in the field of academia giving them advice. If

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We Lost the Rugby

We Lost the Rugby

It has really surprised me how compliant the New Zealand public has been over COVID. We have had most of our human rights and civil liberties taken away by a benign dictator who has persuaded us all that it is for our own good. Yes, the country is locked off

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Ardern’s Pants on Fire over Rugby Debacle

Ardern’s Pants on Fire over Rugby Debacle

When the news broke on Friday that New Zealand had lost the hosting of the Rugby Championship to Australia it was interesting to see the spin from the Prime Minister, Jacinda Ardern: Ardern insisted at a press conference shortly before the announcement that “Sanzaar politics” was to blame for the

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