2013 is long gone .

Getting back to my blog by saying good by to 2013,
was a crazy year with ups and downs, like every one else i suppose. 
I started the year with a Dog in the family.

Shadow 

I also start in a new job, in a (Gun shop) was not to last but i meat allot o good people.

Work at the shop for about 6 month , moving to a Shooting agent, again was not to last but learn a bit, not allot but a bit :) 

I also had a chance to to a few firsts, like shooting my first Grouse white here went Red deer stalking in the Highlands , so from the job i got some great experience.

I aso so a lack of respect for Game in some cases but that is down to individual, and we will find bad fruit in all type of trees.

Armands First Doe

This year was also a record for me wen come to promote shooting, i must have introduced and help to go shooting well over 10 people and not just man, which to my mind we need to promote shooting to the ladies if we want oure spurt to survive.



I also got the pleasure to provide good shooting to a range of people, which made me thinking to start on my own, but i still in doubt. But one particle Client that made me happy, was my wife as she got her first Roe, it was right in the last day of the year and was also a perfect stalk al came together with a perfect shot. 

shadow First Greys

Its been great year for me regarding shooting out door pursuits and personal life to.
 I also spend the year training my young dog that so far is coming up great.

My first Grouse

Shadow first Grouse and Blue Here

 She found my first lost deer, and trout the season did some fantastic work. 
 I know she still a long way to go

.260 First Fox

but i can tell you something for sure, she been getting the experience.

 So just need to see what 2014 old for us and i will tray to keep you guys posted here in the blog , got some new ideas to put to practice so lets see were that will take us.

Until then be safe and see you lot soon.

I own my .243 Parker Hale  for the best part of  4 years , so i thought about getting something newer something with a bit more punch.  A after allot off research i decided what i was going for.

All the research was on the caliber not on the rifle it self, but deciding the call i din't have much choice. 

 Steyr ProHunter Mountain rifle was what i went for and i'm over the moon with it.

Wy .260? you may ask, Being a 6.5/.264 bullet calibre coupled with a case capacity the same as the .308, you have the ability, by simply changing bullet heads and powder charge, to engage any quarry from the wary crow or wily fox through to the small deer species of muntjac and roe, and right up to fallow and red deer. 

Stalkers have long known the ballistic capabilities of the slender and long 6.5 bullet as a deep-penetrating, accurate projectile, while fox shooters appreciate the down-range performance of the lighter hollow-point designs. 

The range of bullet weights starting at 85 grains and transcends the mid-range
 weights of 120 grain up to 140 grain with some varieties as heavy as 160 grain will
 give me all the spectrum i need , but to be onest 120gr to 140gr will be what i will be using most of the time.

With a barrel rifling twist commonly set at 1 in 9in, all these bullets' weights can be stabilised and shot accurately. 





Performance wise is a real pleasure as the .260 is a mild-kicking round,  and with a short action that allow its usage in lighter rifles and it is easily sound moderated and inherently very accurate. 

As a caliber i really love it and don't understand why they are not so common, but if they were probably i wold look for something else.