Recent content by Farmer Rob

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    308 anyone?

    i shoot a savage axis 308 to 1000, many 30wm's and 7rm's come to the farm and most dont out shoot the 308. Probably more my experience than my rifle out shooting the others but caliber doesnt always mean long range
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    Quest for a Mile- 300 Win Mag

    I wonder how right Techy is? I live at 560m (1840 feet) and shoot form that height to 925m (3030 feet) on my place and have never noticed a difference, but now in shooting plus 800m upto 1300m (1420 feet) maybe ill have to keep it in mind. Especially since my 800m range is at 560m and the 1300m...
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    Quest for a Mile- 300 Win Mag

    I only weighed in as it was asked of anyone has actually tried, we had tried a similar but shorter distance, so i dont know why you would be quoting what i assume is a baseball references to an Aussie.
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    Quest for a Mile- 300 Win Mag

    Hi All, Just last weekend 5 of us were shooting 1300m or 1420 yards, i know this isnt a mile not really even close but 3 300 win mags (2 cheapies, a howa 1500 and a winchester xpr and a rem 700 on a mdt ess shassis) 2 308's one cheap howa 1500 and a savage axis in a mdt lss chassis 1 22-250 and...
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    Video adds

    Hi Barrelnut, In using firefox and it is loading right noe
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    Video adds

    Thanks for the reply, But its a pity its auto start, this will definitely limit my time on your site. Rob
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    Video adds

    Hi, I have recently noticed that every page i open starts downloading a 13 minute video about a weed whacker. Im really not interested in it and hate my very very limited data being wasted on this, is there a way to kill these adds or at least have a click to load button not an auto start? Rob
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    Help Reading My Groups

    The piccy on the left looks like 2.7" at 400yards is .675 moa, the piccy on the right looks more like 2" at 200 yards sliding up at 45 degrees equalling 1moa, what problem?
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    1000 yard success!

    Nice shooting, i hope mine goes as well
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    Western Australia hunters/shooters help!

    G'day to WA, I don't shoot 338 so can't help with ammo, but as for eating, there all edible. I love wild pork, it has so much more flavour than grain fed, so i perfer under 30kg pigs. The problem people are having with wild pork is Brucelosis, this is a nasty disease and is transferable to...
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    20 moa rail issues

    Well after lots of stuffing around, playing with the rail, checking bedding etc and finding no issues i gave up and replaced my scope and mounts with my trusty loupy vari x iii, 20 plus years and still strong. Although i havent been out to the 800m range The scope is now zeroed at 300m (29mm...
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    20 moa rail issues

    Thanks for the replies, EMP, Im pretty sure its on correctly, higher to the back. Mountain 56, with 38 travel i should be able to shoot 1200m using the 20 moa rail. Fear no wind, I'd love to watch the video but when you have no choice but dial up speeds youtube is worst than useless, but...
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    20 moa rail issues

    Hi All, I am having an issue with my "Budget LRR' its an axis 308 with a 20 moa rail, cheap 10-40x50 scope that has 38 moa total up/down adjustment. Im using hand loads 150gn hornady btsp at 2860fps and the gun shoots 1.25 moa at 600 meters. The rail is an egw rail and the mounts are warne...
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    Home made "exploding" targets?

    +1 for paint cans
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    Soft Point vs Ballistic tip

    over the years i have tried b-tips, softs and hollows but always end up back at the softs. B-tips are theoretically perfect but i cant tell the difference in accuracy between b-tips and undamaged softs, hollows make their own tip from air and supposedly are perfect and i can tell the...
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