A little weekend trip bush..

Awesome stuff as usual Andy!!! :thumbup: Between the TLC and the fresh pork, my mouth is watering over here!!! :D

BTW, my woods rig:



Andy the Aussie said:
... no such thing as a stupid question mate... ;) That is hootchie cord, it is pretty much Venetian Blind cord in OD green, so much thinner than 550 cord. The loop is an old hunters trick and throw back to the days of wood stocks with the big angry threaded swivel studs screwed into the wood, with age and hard use they can eventually just pull out of the stock. If it is over your shoulder at the time and the rear stud goes the rifle mostly just drops butt down, if it is the front and most likely stud that goes the rifle can take a long arc and comes down barrel/optic first. In the mountains either is bad (as the rifle vanishes away perhaps for good) but the simple loop can 1/2 or more the risk. These days of synthetic stocks and machine threaded studs with a base nut on the other side have mostly removed the risk, but all my hunting slings have had that loop since I was about 12, it's a tough habbit to break.
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Andy, that's a great little trick. :cool: I haven't seen that before. I think I'm going to do that with my pre-'64 Model 70 (30-06). Better safe than sorry! :thumbup: :thumbup: :thumbup: Thanks for the tip! :D
 
Andy.......

Beauty,beauty , beauty........ My heart aches every time you post picks of Oz..... Great shots :thumbup::thumbup::thumbup:
 
Nice truck mate !! Needs a bit more steel wrapped around it to bounce the 'Roos off it though ;)

No problem, it was just one of those things I was shown when a kid that stuck (back then it was a leather boot lace wrapped around). So simple when you think about it !
 
Always enjoy your photos :thumbup:
A touch of fall in the air here. Seeing your photos has awakened the itch to get out in the woods.
 
Thanks for sharing Andy! Looks like a great getaway and a delicious BBQ!
 
Andy the Aussie said:
... no such thing as a stupid question mate... ;) That is hootchie cord, it is pretty much Venetian Blind cord in OD green, so much thinner than 550 cord. The loop is an old hunters trick and throw back to the days of wood stocks with the big angry threaded swivel studs screwed into the wood, with age and hard use they can eventually just pull out of the stock. If it is over your shoulder at the time and the rear stud goes the rifle mostly just drops butt down, if it is the front and most likely stud that goes the rifle can take a long arc and comes down barrel/optic first. In the mountains either is bad (as the rifle vanishes away perhaps for good) but the simple loop can 1/2 or more the risk. These days of synthetic stocks and machine threaded studs with a base nut on the other side have mostly removed the risk, but all my hunting slings have had that loop since I was about 12, it's a tough habbit to break.
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Excellent idea, thanks. I figured it was a real world useful mod. Don't get washed away in all the much needed moisture you're getting. Looking forward to more pictures and hunting stories!
 
Thanks mate :D

If you look close you can just make out the same loop on my .375...



...probably more valuable on this than the synthetic stock.
 
Andy the Aussie said:
... no such thing as a stupid question mate... ;) That is hootchie cord, it is pretty much Venetian Blind cord in OD green, so much thinner than 550 cord. The loop is an old hunters trick and throw back to the days of wood stocks with the big angry threaded swivel studs screwed into the wood, with age and hard use they can eventually just pull out of the stock. If it is over your shoulder at the time and the rear stud goes the rifle mostly just drops butt down, if it is the front and most likely stud that goes the rifle can take a long arc and comes down barrel/optic first. In the mountains either is bad (as the rifle vanishes away perhaps for good) but the simple loop can 1/2 or more the risk. These days of synthetic stocks and machine threaded studs with a base nut on the other side have mostly removed the risk, but all my hunting slings have had that loop since I was about 12, it's a tough habbit to break.
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Great Tip!!! I'm gonna share this in my Hunter Ed classes. THANK Andy!:thumbup:
 
Pretty much my most used hunting rifle now mate.



It started life as a Sako AII in .22/250 around 1983 (I have another identical in .22/250 that is 300 apart in the serial number I bought new in '83) that went to a farm out in the far west. I bought it, in 2002, out of the gun rack in the back window of a LandCruiser where it had spent most of it's life. It was mostly devoid of bluing, the first six inches of the barrel from the chamber forward were devoid of rifling, the stock was sun bleached and the toe broken off. Basically what is left now is the action and trigger mech. It is now a .308Win with a Tobler barrel (21 inches) and McMillian stock. Leupold mounts and 2.5-8x scope. I just worked up a new hand load for it with Nosler 165gn Ballistic Tips (as I found about 700 of them in a cupboard in the garage leftover from when I managed a shop in the late 80s) and AR2208 powder (dated 1987, also leftover) that you know in the US now as Varget. At 100 is is putting three rounds into a single small hole. I was shocked (I expected under and inch as I could get that with some of the specialist factory loads I had) but not complaining. For me, this little rifle just works !!!
 
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