Author Archive for Keith Drain
Nioa Headquarters – Warehouse Tour
Back in June I was lucky enough to be invited to Nioa Trading’s warehouse in Brisbane for a writers event. One of the things we did was a tour of the Nioa Warehouse. One part of the tour I didn’t take any photos of was the display area of all of Nioa’s products (aside from [...]
Yep! They’ve Done it Hoppe’s No.9 Air Freshener
Can you believe it? That unmistakeable gun cleaning smell of Hoppes No.9 now comes in an air freshener. The Gun Blog sums it up best: “As the saying goes… using Hoppe’s as cologne (or an air freshener) may not attract many girls, but it will attract the right kind.” Interesting and I think as soon [...]
The Daisy Powerline 901 Air Rifle Review.
Many people would be familiar with the name Daisy within the airgun world. Daisy is a renowned air rifle brand that many would have had as a child. When I got given the chance to review the Daisy Powerline 901 I jumped at it. Being a bit of an airgun snob I lowered my expectations [...]
Reload Federal .223 and Other Staked (Crimped) Primer Pocketed Brass
You may have heard a myth that Federal .223 brass as well as other brands and military cases that have a staked (crimped) primer pocket are not able to be reloaded. This is not true. In fact if you have brass that is military brass or has had the primer pocket crimped (like Federal .223Rem [...]
Wolf Eyes LED Hunting Torch Review
I had been hearing a lot of hype about Wolf Eye’s Torches. So much so that I approached Wolf Eyes Australia to see if they would send me a review unit. After a couple of phone calls and some issues with a useless postie I had 3 different models to look at; The Defender 170, [...]
Some Great Old Hunting Photographs
Doidge5781 from AusVarmint.com’s Forums gave me permission to post these photo’s on Hunt & Shoot. A Thylacine shot in what Doidge thinks is the 1920’s but looking at the firearm it could be a muzzle loader so it could be earlier. Though I’m not sure (please if you can recognise the gun comment on what [...]
Varminting on a Budget Pt 1: The Varminting Bullet.
This will be a series of blogs that I will be writing over a period of a few weeks. Not all of us are able to spend money on toys and are stuck with the rifles we have and I am sure a lot of you get the craving to go varminting but don’t have [...]
Bad Hare Day – Night Time Hare Hunting
As I went down to my usual hunting properties, the farmer asked me to keep a keen lookout for hares. He has spent a fortune fencing tree runs and now hares and rabbits are the only pests that can get in and eat his native trees he has planted as apart of his wind break [...]
Cool New Belt From Ridgeline plus Pigs!
Saw this belt at Simpson Sports yesterday, thought it looked good. Don’t know pricing yet but I think it’s going to be
Election Results on The Web.
Hey everyone here are the links to where you can keep track of election results throughout the evening: House of Representatives And more importantly for hunters and shooters: The Senate Remember if the Greens get 8 seats they will hold the balance of power in the Senate which will not be a good thing for [...]
Saturday August 21.
Tomorrow is a critical day for this country. It is election day, but to me this one is more important than most. At this point it matters very little if Labor or Liberal wins. The real battle is the battle of Australians Vs The Greens Party. The Greens party has fooled the Australian public and [...]
The History of Our Firearms Part 1 – Winchester Model 70.
I’d like to introduce you to our newest column. From time to time I will cover the history of a particular firearm it will be relatively short but still be enough to give you the gist of where our favourite firearms came from. This time its the Winchester Model 70.
