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South Australia Election

South Australia Election

| March 3, 2010 | 0 Comments

On March 20 South Australia once again will be going to the polls The Combined Shooters & Firearms Council of SA have done a report of who have supported our interests or who has not been supportave of Law abiding firearm owners  be they hunters / target shooter of Farmer there message can be downloaded [...]

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The Basic Firearms Safety Rules

The Basic Firearms Safety Rules

| February 23, 2010 | 5 Comments

Hi all This is my first blog post and something that I feel that needs to be said with 2 recent tragic incidents in the last week both in Victoria and Queensland. I thought it is quite important to remind us about firearm safety. no matter if you have been shooting for years or just [...]

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Is Shooting a Drug of Addiction?

Is Shooting a Drug of Addiction?

| February 9, 2010 | 3 Comments

G’day everyone! I’m sitting at home one sunny afternoon, and the phone rings. Ah, it’s Chris! “Hey, Bec, wanna get your shooting licence?”, he says to me. “Sure, why not!?”, says I. Little did I know that this decision was gonna cost me dearly in the intervening months, licence fees, PTA costs, training costs, lost [...]

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Indian Myna Trapping

Indian Myna Trapping

| January 25, 2010 | 4 Comments

Well, The first day of trapping Myna’s has begun for the year and I’m already off to a good start. Trap has been in “free bait” mode for 2 days now getting them used to coming in for a free feed. After setting it to catch birds the first one is securely locked away after [...]

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Ratting with the AirRifles

Ratting with the AirRifles

| January 16, 2010 | 4 Comments

Looking forward to taking the airguns out tomorrow for the first time and helping a local farmer with some problem rats he has. Here’s hoping the R9 doesn’t have any issues with pass throughs. A task for either the Silver Bears or Predators I think. If too many problems the old Annie will get a [...]

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Hunting in 2010

Hunting in 2010

| January 8, 2010 | 4 Comments

So I just spent the past few days, disassembling, cleaning and lubricating and re-assembling all of my firearms in preparation for the coming years hunting. Wouldn’t say it’s my favourite activity but given the investment we all have in our tools/toys not a bad idea to do it every few months to keep them in [...]

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