THE SHOOTISTS

Ok people this page is just for you!
Send me your favourite hunting, fishing, target shooting or club photos with a brief description (no names if you don't want to) and your old uncle Bobby will put them up.

Neil's Big Banger!

4 bore shoulder mounted punt gun at night.
Load data:
Thimble full of 3F
Half "Her" handbag of 1F
Half a whisky bottle of lead, all rammed home and capped ready for firing.
Result...
BOOOOOOOMMMM!!

AR-10

Before,
Covered in house paint and very grotty in general.

After,
Striped back, cleaned and refinished.
From Troy in NZ.
AR10 Promotional Film.

Kevin and L1A1.
I live in Brisbane and went home to NZ last month to renew my NZ firearms licence, did some shooting there.
Here are some pictures, the red head is the wife....
I have my Australian firearms licence but can not be trusted to shoot
these at the local rifle range!
Thanks JOHN . W .HOWARD...
Kevin/Karen Brisbane
Kiwis have all the fun!

JOHNSON 30.06
From Troy in NZ.
Thanks for the (Sniff!) memories...
("Bloody John @#/* Howard!" etc, etc)

Keith & Piggy.

Had a fun time at a mates place near Bourke.
Found this pig pre dawn, out in the field. Got as close as I could, about 300yds. 
In the early light the scene was almost surreal looking through the scope. 
The air was so still the sound of the bullet travelling was auditable to impact
 Goodbye Mr Pig, a 308 Tikka varmit made quick work of him. 
The old adage "the early bird catches the worm" was certainly true 
in this case - there's a magic to the Aussie bush at dawn 
it's worth the effort to get up - sore head or not!

My Wild Russian Boar hunt in Oklahoma

Rick Windham.
That's a wicked looking spear Rick!

A turkey from last fall

Taken with a pistol, a Thompson Contender chambered in .410
Rick Windham. Outdoor Recreation Writer & Photographer.
North Platte Telegraph/Beatrice Daily Sun/North Platte Bulletin/Greenhorn Valley View (CO) Host - "The Outdoor Connection" - KODY Radio 1240AM - North Platte, NE
USA

COBIA!

This was sent in but I'd
love some more info.

*BFG!

Ron from south Australia's favourite toy,
.44 Mag Desert Eagle + Pro Point.
*Big F....G GUN!

A homemade Black powder gun

.45 cal and uses large rifle/pistol primers.
Barrel and frame are machined from one peace of steel.
Thanks Barry from New Zeeland.

"Keith and Billy."

A nice old Billy - 34 1/2" spread on the horns.
Got him south east of Bathurst, near Newbridge after leading his herd (about 30 of 'em) from pine forests through a broken gate. The rifle is an Parker Hale .308 but the scope is a new range compensating scope from the US. A Leatherwood M1200. It took a bit of working out but it actually computes bullet drop I got the goat from the top of next hill, over 400 yds - lucky shot maybe (not for the goat) but the scope actually works. It has a cam which raises or lowers the scope itself - interesting stuff.

"What ever you say Sergeant!"

From PFC Hill, Iraq.
Good one Trooper, Keep your head down.

"You mean I've got to
clean all of these?!"

They don't look to good, but wouldn't we
still love to go rummaging through this lot!
Thanks to Stuart Giles of New York City for the pic.

"THE GOOD OLD DAYS." 2

Back in 1981 things were different...
Sent in by Greg of Melbourne.
The ARMOURY was my favourite gun shop in the 1980s
This add appeared in the June 1981 edition of the Sporting Shooters Journal,
back in the days when politicians were proud to open gun clubs and shows instead of trying to
close them down...
Click on image and click again on the "expand" button for a better look.
Thanks for the happy memories Greg, it was one of my favourite haunts too.

Andrew Thorpe, Sydney Australia.

From Andrew Thorpe, Sydney Australia.
"Back on the June long-weekend I went on a trip with an ex-co-worker and two of his relatives. Just after arriving at our destination we went out for a drive and stumbled into a herd of goats. These three ran straight passed me and were knocked down with 3 shots. Plus 2 shots for the coup-de-grace.
The rifle is a M48A from Lawrance Ordnance in 7.92x57. The mount is S&K
(www.scopemounts.com), and the scope is a Leupold M8 Scout Scope (2.5x28). The ammunition is Turkish 1951 military with the 155g FMJ replaced by a 170g Hornady RNSP (and the powder charge dropped by 3 grains). That load hits like a hammer! Chronographs at 2720 fps. Even at the coup-de-grace range, they didn't exit. The only exit wounds were on small pigs. And with berdan primed cases I didn't have to worry about picking them up either.
The forward mounting of the scope allowed for clip reloading, and the bandolier around my waist had a five-round clip in each of the seven pouches. My ammunition was accessible without the clanking caused by loose rounds bouncing in pockets.
My budget scout cost about a third of the cost of a Steyr Scout, and I'm using the same optics".
A final point. The other guys only did bench rest practise a few times a year. On the other hand I shoot service comps nearly every weekend. The other guys hit rates were about 50-60%. Mine was in the 90+% range. I think that says what kind of shooting is the best practise for hunting."
Nicely done Andrew!
Just goes to show you don't need to pay big bucks to get big results...

This beautiful specimen is non other than Mr Rudy Bawmer of Sydney Australia with his Ruger KM77VT MK2 .308 toped with a Tasco TG 624x44 DS scope, (all supplied by yours truly) with which he won a 100 Meter SSAA "Gold" Medal, after shooting only five fouling
and sighting shots!!!.
Very well done!
Don't let any one tell you a Ruger can't shoot straight from the box!