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Fly to Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, drive to Porepunkah or Bright- rent accomodation there- and hunt Sambar deer in the Buckland valley.

Family can ski nearby or 'do' the vinyards etc.....

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I think the frontier was home to some strange dudes- or as the English would say- eccentric characters.

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While he was an excellent shooter and teacher, he of the few true 'thinking' gun writers of the 20th century- a man who would apply intellectual thought to an idea or concept and develop it, rather than just regurgitating what others, and in particular gun manufacturers tell them. May his teachings ...

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I hope he makes them available in a picture book. That war - and Campaign, along with Gallipoli, very much represented the coming of age of Australia, which had only just achieved nationhood. It is sad how many died there, a great uncle of mine along with them. All I know of him via my grandmother w...

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It is sad news- and I feel for the families. Society has to realise that you cannot stop all incidents in which people kill people. As the bumper sticker says- 'S#@T happens'. I understand that the anti's are now seeking to use this as reason to ban guns- but then of course one would just see someon...

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It is sad news- and I feel for the families. Society has to realise that you cannot stop all incidents in which people kill people. As the bumper sticker says- 'S#@T happens'. I understand that the anti's are now seeking to use this as reason to ban guns- but then of course one would just see someon...

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I have most experience with a lever action in 357 or 44 so this would be my first choice. Before that failed politician, John Howard, darned us with his rediculous gun laws, I owned a M1 carbine. With GI loads I agree, it is very weak, but it can perform respectably with commercial loads. On the bas...

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I have a 3-4 weight Daiwa amorphous whisker rod, with 3 weight line on a hardy reel (nothing sounds like a Hardy when the reel screams- reckon they must have an accoustic technician). I swear by it. All trout caught with it have been small- but a small trout on light gear can feel like a very large ...

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The reputation of the 94 as a deer gun was developed with the 170 gn load.

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I was in the army reserve while at uni, and the army then had a policy of use it or loose it- if you did not use your ammo quota in a given year less ammo would be forthcoming in future. I therefore had to go to the range and shoot off copious quantities of ammo in M60's and SLR's (FN-FAL) and some ...

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Australian snakes do not inject venom either, they deposit a pool of it on and around the bite.

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Bob I agree with you- most flies- like most rifle calibers are designed to catch customers. There are usually only a handful of patterns you really 'need' on a given set of water- but what the hell, throwing everything in your fly box at a fickle trout is half the fun.

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Does anyone have any favourite tricks and tactics when fishing for trout.

I make artificial trout eggs out of a synthetic kitchen cleaner or piece of foam-melt some glycerine and add anniseed oil (sometimes sold as anise oil) available from chemists.

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I saw the Winchester mansion on a documentary shown in Australia a year or so ago. The lady who had it built seemed very superstitious and scared of being done in by the ghost of someone killed with a Winchester rifle. While obviously happy to enjoy the profits of Oliver's commercial skill, she want...

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Congratulations on turning a pedestrian item into a nice bit of kit to be proud of.

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I was recently told by a fellow whose judgement I trust, about the importance of 'breaking in' a new barrel. In 30 years of hunting I have never heard of this. Does anyone here have a routine they go through to 'break in' a new barrel before subjecting it to normal shooting, and if so, what is this ...

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Saw a 'special' on Tornado's on TV here last week. I had no idea they were such a problem in central US.

Glad to here your family were OK. It would have still been quite an ordeal for them.

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NB. By 77 I am referring to a Ruger not Mauser.

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I had one in .308. The problems are as follows: 1. If using my Rem model 7's, if I mount the gun quickly my eye is aligned with the centre of the scope and cheek welded to the stock- if I do the same with the model 77 my eye is not aligned with the centre of the scope and I have to make an adjustmen...

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22 LR- plinking and rabbits 22 magnum- consistent pest eradication. I know some farmers who use nothing else- even using the little round (as I have on many occasions) on feral pig. While devastating on rabbit, the little round offers no margin for error on larger game and when used must be used for...

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I am not saying I agree with their beliefs. Whenever they stop at the house I also tell them not to worry about my soul- and they respect that. Before he retired, my father's company was acquired by a Mormon tycoon named Huntsman, I was impressed by comments my father made about the civic mindedness...

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It looks like a Red. You would however be hard pushed to tell the difference between a Red, an Elk or a Red/Elk 'super red' hybrid from a photograph.

Interesting to note if it can interbreed with whitetail deer and if the off spring are fertile.

Is it socialising with whitetail or is it a loner?

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L find Leupold M8's an excellent choice and have a number of them. Nothing ever goes wrong with them.

I recently was given a Bushnell 3200 10x and have to say it looks to be an excellent scope.

My preference is for fixed power scopes. Keeps things simple.

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G'Day from overcast Canberra.

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I borrowed it over the weekend and watched it. I agree it is a 'visually beautiful' movie- however, I find this 'beauty' annoying in a way, in that it gives people in other countries completely the wrong idea about what Australia is like. It is possible to find areas here that are that stark, but mo...

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Nicknack- that is quite a shooter. I have never seen 'Stainless' barrels on 92's as a Winchester article. Do you know if the gun had to go back to New Haven for installation or whether the local Aussie agent, or local gunsmith handled installation? I am wondering if this was along the lines of an ov...

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Apropos of Nicknack's comment about concrete reinforcing. I know of a factory in Western Sydney, and the owner got hold of a large number of SMLE barreled actions in the 1960's that he used to reinforce the concrete. The concrete is as good as new

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Bought a Mitsubishi Pajero (you probably know it as a montegro or Shogun) given what Pajero means in Spanish. 40,000 km, bought as retirement vehicle by an old chap who liked to fly fish. Serviced every 5,000 km by the local Mitsubishi dealer since new, vehicle was immaculate. Old chap had died of a...

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I'm thinking of going after trout next weekend. Trout season in Australia closes in about 3 weeks time. We will then be able to fish for them in dams, but rivers will be off limits. The Rainbows have already started to accumulate at the river mouth on my favourite reservoir - lake Eucumbene. (pn 'Yo...

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I agree with Mr Miller, I carry a small plastic trowel. I am sick of seeing piles of old toilet paper and human waste behind bushes near bush cabins. While the incident reported has been treated with amusement. There is a problem with huts without facilities in that they tend to concentrate pollutio...

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I am amazed at how Garand's have gone up. I am used to seeing guns like Ruger Mini 14's which are Cat D here in Australia and heavily restricted, selling for a crazy $2,500, I never thought a Garand would sell for over $1,000. I gather the Italians also used the Garand after the war. I gather they w...

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Ice water enemas- YE OWWWWWWWWWWW!!!!!!!

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I was in Smith's gun shop in Sydney about 20 years ago, there was a nice looking double rifle on the shelf made by Mekel. I picked it up. The calibre reference on the barrel was one I did not know so I put the gun down. Condition and price were right, but I did not want to buy a pig in a poke that I...

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Thanks for an interesting exchange. I enjoyed reading this. History, where there is a human context is history at its most interesting.

I have acted for many mormons, and find them to be honest good living people.

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Yes, I agree 30-30 is excellent for pig. Even the German's adopted the calibre, giving it a ref 7.62x51R.

Pigs love close cover and also have poor eye sight so range is hardly an issue- unless you want to ambush them from the other side of corn fields etc

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We do not have large life threatening critters here- other than crocodile which are not hard to kill. Our dangerous species wriggle and crawl! Despite tourists-and some locals using .375 cal rifles for Buffalo this is not really necessary- if you can shoot. Bushmen have taken this species, as well a...

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Does a brush hesitate a bit as you pass it slowly over the spot?. With pitting you do not know what effect it will have until you shoot the gun. Whenever pitted guns are shot at the range, some guns and loads seem profoundly effected and others seem only mildly so, and others are as accurate as ever...

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Buck's remarks suggest a snake can choose whether to rattle or not- is this so, or is it an automatic alarm response.

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I note encore has a guide gun for hunting swine. Most I have shot have been targets of opportunity and have been taken with a .222 (Remington model 7)- with the pill inserted just behind the ear it is an instant recipe for porcine deep sleep, or while poking around lignum swamps with a 12 guage or W...

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I only ever eat feral swine where I am able to get a sucker- the rubbish they eat leaves them subject to worms and all manner of health issues. Having said this Australia sells a lot of feral swine to the europeans-especially Germany, and until the rules changed, requiring shooters to have stainless...

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I normally keep an eye out for 'westerns', and local movies of this genre. I have never heard of 'the proposition'.

The last one I heard of was Wolf Creek and of course 'Australia'.

Can anyone help- who is staring in it?

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A truly lovely lady- she knows how to spend her time appropriately as well.

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Me too.

Having been brought up on a diet of westerns, lever actions, cowboys and ghost towns have always been a fascination.

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In Tasmania tiger snakes have mutated to have very big heads so that they can feed on mutton bird chicks. It is not so much the length of a snake that gets me as the size of its head. Know what you mean about them sunning themselves on flower beds outside the front door. Have a friend here who rippe...

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I was listening to a snake rattle the other day on a wild life site. It sounded just like a cicada.

How do you tell them apart- or do you just C$%! yourself everytime you hear a cicada?

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One other thing, if in an area where there is trout- a good fly rod- or at least a bull whip, flies and leaders. Many a trout was caught in an evening back in the days of high country stock leases in Australia by a leader or just length of line tied to the end of a bull whip and a tasty worm, grub o...

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I assume self defence is not an issue- if not- a Marlin 39 TDS- a trapper length 22 lever action that pulls apart nicely and fits into a back pack it is also much easier to use accurately than a .22 pistol. I would also a BLR in .308 with a couple of spare magazines. Reasonable compromise between sp...

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Congratulations. I think you will find it 'aint over yet with the kids- They allways have a hand in your pocket one way or another.

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Must say I also enjoyed Pale Rider.

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Don't these guys learn. A textbook example of quality management is what happened to Harley Davidson. They seemed to get their act together and now thrive. The problem I believe is that guns for the most part are now assembled- they are not manufactured by craftsmen or people who care about the prod...

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