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When I did my weekend warriors last century I consistently got high scores on the sneaker range and gallery shoot - these were intended to test you ability to shoot 'instinctively" and make the weapon and extension of your arm. When I started shooting skeet and field and game an old bloke I use...

White vinegar is brilliant for cleaning hands after a glue up - espesh for CA techniglue. I keep vinegar in the workshop. I wonder how it would go for treating timber before glueing - like using acetone on oily woods. Anyone tried that? I also use vinegar when cleaning the kitchen - mopping floors e...

Broken Bow! broken bow.jpg Ha - made ya look. That is actually the bow for my double bass - they do go after a bit and when they do it can be pretty specky. This was. Nearly had my eye out. A repair was attempted by a violin maker mate but it failed, per the pic. No matter, I'm getting one in Carbo...

You did a good job against those billycart bows!

Thanks for the encouragement colleagues - it really was a great weekend of getting the bits together and getting started. It also forced me to clean up the workbench and work area! I have to say that there are not too many more elegant shapes than deflex-reflex. @Yeoman - Monaro timber has good supp...

No - Geir Fokstuen Mick. @Longbow Steve - that was cruel and unwarranted.....but bloody funny. The bamboo backed osage just needs a further riser block putting on and then some bold adjustments to the thickness taper at mid and outer limb and then it'll get tillered. Should be shooting in the next c...

I've started building ''em again. One is for a mate that is 4 years over-due. My bad. He was and still is my kung-fu Grand Master, no bull. And he saw my takedown I made a couple of years back and asked. So. His will be a spotted gum outer core, hickory inner core (4 lams here, 1.5mm) thick with bam...

Ha! thanks - my kids gave me 2 coffee mugs from the Mr Men line - one is Mr Grumpy which is for work.. The other is Mr Happy for at home....

Cheers fellas

Garry Mallard just posted on FB that it was actually the Game Council that called in the cops when it heard about the allegations....but Fairfax are claiming by omission that it was a piece of investigative journalism. Anyhow - as I messaged you, I wrote the following to the SMH, but even Waterhouse...

Been very busy of late and not done anything with the twangstick or bangstick in an age. So apologies for my absence. Anyhow, here's a thing - I recently renewed my firearms licence, joined sporting shooters and got my NSW R licence - did black powder firearms and bows and then though "b*gger i...

Noice.

Good onya Roadie. Bugger Ita Buttrose - Grant Cawthorne for Ozzie of the Year for me....

Sure that letter wasnt from Tony Abbott's wife?

Interesting, The Plot thickens. Cheers Roadie. Indeed - and still it is not a good look whichever way as it puts back in the spotlight not just hunting in general but the stitch up of the deal between NSW Govt and the Shooter's Party - which as I've said before was done pretty badly. But that is al...

Archaeological Perspectives on the Battle of the Little Big Horn: http://tinyurl.com/b2pq524 A really detailed study of artefacts found on the battlefield from shell casings to bullets to arrowheads to personal items, bone of all types and that gives a fascinating insight into the historical rather ...

Count me in for stubby holder and shirt. 3 of each.

Nephew ... all good ! Loose ..... your are incorrigible ... as only banjo players can be :surprised: One does one's best - as does Nephew. I knew when I posted this the debate was going to be robust - as it should be. But I'm conscious, having inflamed stuff in the past, that this is actually a cam...

No Rod, it's true. On the wedding night Charles says to Diana "Would you like to see the Bridal Suite?"

And she says "No Charles, I'll just hang onto your ears till I get used to it"

Nephew ... all good ! Loose ..... your are incorrigible ... as only banjo players can be :surprised: One does one's best - as does Nephew. I knew when I posted this the debate was going to be robust - as it should be. But I'm conscious, having inflamed stuff in the past, that this is actually a cam...

Royalty - they are funny about horses.

Got a piccie of my little girl to post with a lovely yellow eye mullet she got the other weekend. Took William out after rabbits the other day, I didnt take a bow - happy to guide him. I nearly burst laughing at some of his stalks - but he got in good position a fair bit and to his credit he got in ...

I was enjoying it, and just to get it all back on track - Happy Australia Day:

Perry

I've seen the other side too from something sent out and it is a very murky plot indeed!

This doesnt change my view that the whole hunting in parks issue has been exceptionally badly handled and it will only reverberate on the law abiding etc when something goes wrong.

My point exactly - and we cannot do the head in the sand approach that has served hunting organisations sooooo well in the past. This appears to me to have some meat to it. One person named has denied being there. Identity will be an issue in the investigation - interesting that it has not hit the m...

No need to lecture me on the law Roadie - innocent till proven guilty yes, but not a good look - and GC honchos should be entirely above suspicion. It might be a set up with blokes falsely identifying themselves, but there is the issue of a GC vehicle. Unless that was faked. But then we have the gut...

Bearing in mind the Admin might wish us to avoid controversial comment, I post this for the interest of members of the site. It also has a survey in it which I encourage you to reflect on and do:

http://www.macleayargus.com.au/story/12 ... m/?cs=2452

Jeff, Old Bean. You should have seen the first draft. And the email that I sent the rick (with a silent 'p'). Let me say this, having been to Uni and taught (Law) at Uni can I say that the main role of Sociology Professors was not to teach but to try and get First Year students into bed. And that is...

And then the balance is this utter cr*p from some high falutin university educated moron who probably owns a bunch of the damn things:

http://www.theage.com.au/opinion/societ ... 2ccqu.html

Get one of the blokes from Mumbai trying to flog you something talking about the cricket. Always good for a laugh when India is touring. I kept one bloke going for about 15 minutes. Nice chap too.

Here you go blokes. A couple of afternoon's fishing pictures featuring two of my fave fishing and hunting mates, my boy William and Paul - aka Piggy. Special thanks to Paul for putting me onto this spot - and while I got to see some lovely fish - there is nothing so heart stopping as seeing a double...