Sir Bob Jones nopunchespulled.com One of our true cricket greats, all-rounder John Reid, has died at 92, thus for once the old cliché that he had good innings is true, both literally and chronologically. My god, he was special, captaining New Zealand through a difficult time in our cricket
Sir Bob Jones nopunchespulled.com The above, an absurd Stuff website heading yesterday out of Australia. If it had a scintilla of truth we must assume Bolivians, Bulgarians, Taiwanese; I could go on listing the world’s 200 plus countries, were all comatose with shock. In fact 99.9% of
It can be enjoyable watching a good game of rugby between two good teams who play the game well, and these days, many of us choose to sit in the lounge and watch in some semblance of comfort, rather than suffer the indignity of some of the antisocial unpleasantness that
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
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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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.
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
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
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
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
