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@ 10:30 am (GMT) |
Nathan FosterHi guys, just sharing our latest video activities.The first video contains a few highlights from a talk I gave to the Manawatu regional branch of the New Zealand Deer Stalkers Association. Subjects covered: Fast killing, the rise in popularity of low powered cartridges, Berger bullets. https://youtu.be/Ikc_EjSD_S8 The second video (off topic sorry) features a book reading and Interview with regards to our most recent publication - The Door. The host, Andrew Carter, is a New Zealand producer who specializes in the filming of MMA and Kick boxing events within NZ and abroad. https://youtu.be/iEMuHizblps |
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@ 01:39 pm (GMT) |
David LenziRe: Nathan Foster videosClicked on the first one through a suggested video link by mistake when I was trying to get the Star Spangled Banner going... watched through, of course.A good primer for folks that may be loathe to read your articles on the subject. Definitely appreciate the continued effort. My wife, a German, wandered over and asked me if you were speaking English... highlight of the evening right there. |
@ 07:12 am (GMT) |
Scott StruifRe: Nathan Foster videosHaving read your books, I understood the talk. I hope it led to book sales. The concepts are not easy. There’s so much confusion these days about internal, external, and terminal ballistics. As you said, the only one that should matter to hunters is the last. But the former two dominate the thinking. The 6.5 Grendel, for example, excels at the former . . . minimal recoil, flat shooting, long-for-caliber bullets . . . so, the thinking goes, the latter logically follows: “If I hit it, it will die.” Many hunters conflate long range target prowess of a cartridge with its terminal capabilities. Bullet makers do their best. As you pointed out, many of their employees are hunters. But the line between long-range target performance and terminal performance seems to be blurred. The problem is exacerbated by modern, high-BC bullets. Logic would dictate that a long, high-BC copper bullet would be the ticket. But, thanks to your research, it’s now known they produce inhumane pencil wounds at longer ranges. |
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@ 12:44 pm (GMT) |
David LenziRe: Nathan Foster videosScott...you're not kidding.If you want something that will raise your hackles, take a gander a certain forum with "Rok" in the name and read the thread on the .223 Rem with 77 grain TMK as the "end all, be all" of big game rounds. There's a horde of folks out there asserting "if people can kill it with an arrow, anything I can shoot it with is good to go because it's certainly much better than a broad head. Shot placement is the only thing that matters." They conveniently leave out/miss the reality of how many animals are wounded every bow season, to say nothing of how far even well hit animals run. Anyone that's actually done any bow hunting is likely familiar with judging the strike by the color/texture of blood on the ground and the arrow... because if you're not lucky, you're tracking (hopefully not far). My assertion is that no one is entitled to hunt game for sport (which is what 99% are doing once the chest thumping about "filling the freezer" is out of the way). Tia Shoemaker can hunt with a less than 8 lb .416 Rem Mag... I'm not the rifleman she is, clearly, but surely if she can handle that gun, most of us can aspire to learn a "normal" caliber. |
@ 02:24 pm (GMT) |
Lane SalvatoRe: Nathan Foster videosScott, I think some of it is just talk from folks that talk and don't hunt. Sometimes you see guys who are in a small club of some sort and they're constantly online posting, giving advice, asking for advice, etc. but they never actually hunt. That happens more than some people think.I've gut shot more animals than I wanted to in a 40+ year hunting life and a poorly shot animal with a 30-06 or a 300 WM for that matter will run a long way before inevitably dying. I've never found much blood with a gut shot animal. When you see how easy it is for an animal to escape after being poorly hit with an extremely powerful rifle it is easy to see how a tiny caliber just isn't going to cut it in most situations. That's another reason I believe a lot of this talk is just theoretical. I think they do go out and shoot at the range a lot but in many cases I don't think they hunt. |
@ 06:31 pm (GMT) |
VinceRe: Nathan Foster videosGreat that you are out there at the NZDA coalface educating people Nathan, this information isn't easy to come by on the net where we are swamped by marketing hype, or writers promoting the marketing hype for more money.I know I never really thought about projectile performance before finding your website, just did I have to look for the deer or was it DRT. Keep doing what you do and let me know if you are going to visit the Waikato Branch. Cheers Vince |
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@ 08:35 am (GMT) |
Nathan FosterRe: Nathan Foster videosHi Vince, thanks for your kind words.I just go where or when I am invited. Once I am booked, the NZDA branch will normally announce it internally within that province (e.g. club private facebook page & news letter). Someone from the Rotorua branch left a phone message a while back, but left no contact details. A shame, I could have done with a soak in the hot pools. Ideally, I would rather do these talks on a weekend morning (workshop), but that probably wouldn't suit anyone. The trouble is, the three main subjects (cartridge ballistics, the rifle, the shooter) cover such a wide field and its hard to know where to start and where to end in just an hour or so, especially at the end of a long working week day for everyone. |
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