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Owen Guns Bulletin Edtion 43 August 2010

Ron Owen — Sun, 22 Aug 2010 08:27:49 +0000

Welcome to the Forty Third Edition of the Owen Guns Bulletin.

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Bushnell Yardage Pro Range Finder

$362. plus post.

Norinco Model 213 ‘Tokargypt’ 9 shot Semi Auto

The Model 213 original basis was designed by John Moses Browning, the world famous firearm designer. In the late 1920s the Colt /Browning mechanism was redesigned by Russian, Feoder Tokerev, simplified for mass production and chambered in the powerful 7.62×25. It used the Mod 1911 swinging link, short recoil system.
To enable easy maintenance the hammer and lock mechanism can be removed as a single assemble. To improve the Browning feed system the ammunition feed lips are machined into the frame rather than relying on pressed tin. Which on a battlefield where magazines lips do not get the best attention is a great advantage in reliability and makes the magazines cheaper to produce. It was an extremely tough, reliable and powerful pistol and was later modified by Hungary for export to Egypt this was known as the Tokagypt. The pistol differs from the Tokarev in being chambered for the 9mm Parabellum, and a fitted safety catch (WHICH SHOULD NEVER BE RELIED UPON) as well as the half cock safety.

As can be seen by the inset photo the barrels and chambers are all chrome plated.It has a plastic wrap around grip stock, instead of the Tokerev ‘bakelite’ and a finger piece type floor plate on the magazine, which improves your chances of quickly getting it out and getting another one in after someone has rammed one in covered in mud. The M 213 Chinese version of this also has a chrome plated barrel shown in the above photograph. These are brand new unfired but have the usual scratch marks and rough corners as shown in the photographs. As standard the barrels are a millimetre short for club licences so are fitted with a slightly longer barrel. The steel is excellent and once a few surfaces, such as slides, are polished they are a slick an easy pointing pistol. Eight rounds in the magazine.

$295 each.

plus Registered Post and Licences.

Bushnell Compact Spotting Scope 12–36 x 50

$205 plus post.

Armed Under & Over 12 gauge $775.

Armed 12 g Under & Over shotgun, single trigger, ejectors, five interchangable choke tubes the best value in a, new over and under on the market today. Truely a Turkish gun made with from Italian designs, a Turkish Delight with Italian good taste.

$775.

Electronic Ear Muffs

Slimline Electoronic Ear Muffs
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Hear normally up to 85 db Electronically reduces & protects hearing
Protects hearing above 85 db
Able to hear normal conversations and sounds to 85 decibels
Over 200 hours of battery life
Auto-adjust headband
Solid state circuit
Rotary on-off volume knob
HOW THE ELECTRONIC EAR MUFFS WORK
These electronic ear muffs are a high standard ear muff in design, they are made to feel light and comfortable for all day use. They can be used as standard ear muff when the electronic component is not turned on and will passively reduce noise like any normal ear muff. They have a standard noise reduction rating of 29 decibel and are a Class 5.
Once turned on the microphone, located at the top of the ear muff, will pick up and amplify ambient noise. If some one standing next to you talks, their voice will be amplified through the speakers in both ear muffs. Should there be a loud noise, such as a firearm, the electronic ear muffs will automatically cut out and block the loud noise. The electronic ear muffs are designed to attenuate noise about 85 decibels, meaning that they will block out instantly, once the noise reaches a certain level. The electronic ear muffs allow you to control the volume level of ambient noise around you. On the shooting range with constant loud reports, the electronic ear muffs will block this noise. For range instructions or to communicate with another person, you can instantly hear them speak.
At the range or anywhere ear protection is constantly required, but you also need to hear instructions from others or you wish to be more aware of the ambient sound around you, these electronic ear muffs are what you need.

$75.50 plus post.

The Australian International Arms M10 Rifles.

Ten shot .308 Win/ 7.62 Nato 10 shot power house. For Military Rifle Competition or flattening Pigs.
M10-B1 (7.62×51mm NATO)
560mm barrel, medium weight, sporter configuration, 10-rd, magazine. Adjustable foresight for elevation, windage, dual rear aperture for 200 & 400 metres. Picatinny steel rail to mount telescope.
M10-B2 ex-M42-B2 (7.62×51mm NATO)
640mm heavy barrel a la L42A1.Steel blue-black finish, teak hardwood stock with chamfered edges, hand oiled. Adjustable foresight, elevation & windage. 10-rd. box magazine like US M14. ‘L’ aperture for 200 & 400 metres. Comes with Picatinny steel rail for ’scope sight.Military butt & cheek rest like L42.
Three different models presently in stock, basically the heavier the barrel, the more expensive

from $1300 to $1490. phone for more details phone 07 54 825070.

Tasco 8 x 21 Compact Binoculars,

Very Special Once Only Price

$20. plus post

Remington Genesis 1000 fps.

Idea for Dad and Son, An Adult Air Rifle. Practice Target Shooting in the Garage.

(Air Rifle Scopes have to be EXTRA shock resistant for High powered Air Rifles) . These single shot spring air rifle feature ultra Hi ergonomics in its soft, synthetic pistol style grip and sculptured cheek piece, 28 pounds of cocking force gets up to 1000 fps. Other features include aTwo stage Adjustable trigger, Ventilated rubber recoil pad, Precision rifled steel barrel, Crossblock trigger blocking mechanism, Ambidextrous safety, made in the USA.

$400. With 3–9×40 Variable Centrepoint Air Rifle Scope and Mounts. $300 without. plus freight.

Accurate Firearm Design

Custom Built Rifle Actions.

The building of an action for a new or special design for one’s own use or for another purpose is a very tedious and expensive undertaking because every part has to be machined separately from steel and they all have to fit together, much more than that all the parts have to function together and work as a unit. You are creating a repeating single piston engine it converts dry fuel into energy and that energy drives the piston the projectile. Only a skilled machinist or a tool maker can successfully undertake such a job even after the design has been laid down on the drawing board, and he must have access to a fully equipped machine shop including facilities for heat treatment. Similarly the manufacture of a few such actions for sale has to be undertaken in a similar manner and is usually too costly. Breech action manufacture commercially is really out of the question except in large quantities to off set the tooling and set up costs. The fabrication of a single breech action by hand may run into months and cost millions of dollars.
This is why shooters who wish to have special arms made for their own use have had to use existing breech actions which have been manufactured in quantity and can be had at moderate cost. To one of these they can then fit a special barrel, stock, and sights, and can even adapt the arm to a special cartridge for which the breech action is suitable. Thousands of such arms are being built in Australia annually, whereas the building of a breech action of special and new design is of rare occurrence.

Before contemplating altering or building a firearm action, some thought must be applied to the purpose that the completed firearm will be applied to. As the weight of the completed firearm would be governed by the weight and design of the action that was designed for its purpose.
The desired weight of the completed arm should be taken into consideration. in designing a new breech action. Our present thought is that the weight of the complete arm, but not including telescope sight, sling, or cartridges loaded into the magazine should be approximately as follows:
For a young boy’s first firearm 4 ½ to 5 pounds.
For 10 to 14* years old boys rifles and shotguns—about 6 pounds. (* Depends on the 14 years old as some at that age are 6ft 4 in and built like Cassias Clay, then they carry your rifle)
For mountain rifles and light waterfowl shotguns 6 ½ to 7 pounds.
For heavy (For the swamp, duck shotguns 7 ½ to 8 ½ pounds.
For general hunting rifles 7 ½ to 8 ½ pounds.
For Infantry rifles 9 to 9 ½ pounds.
For long range game rifles, varmint rifles, and sniper rifles, l0 to 11 ½ pounds.
For match rifles for highly competitive rifle shooting, 11 to 13 pounds.
For hand guns for target and military use 2 to 3 pounds.
The balance of the firearm should also be taken into consideration, although this is dependent rather upon barrel and stock than on breech action. However, the choice of a breech action design may make the completed firearm either too light or too heavy so think about it, as it better to make modifications to the action design at the design stage and not attempt to to reduce weight at the completion of the job. Very often this means that parts are reduced in thickness and strength which can cause severe problems at test firing time.
Continued in Edition 44.

P 11 EDI-T Hunter Shooting Torch, $79.plus post.

Mount is $47.00 and Trophy 4×32 scope is $42.00 plus post.

THOUGHT s FOR THE WEEK .
Elections Are Just Their Entertainment.

For those who feel cheerful or inspired by the results of the 2010 election, remember this time, remember where you were, when you felt good last. As unfortunately, if anyone is out there that still believes that anything good, in the cause of freedom can come from an election in the 21st Century, then last night, it was proved again, that elections are only part of the chains that bind us. The whole process of elections is dependent on an educated electorate, once that process is subverted and controlled we are its slaves.
The Greens achieved their balance of power in the Senate, with 9 seats, they even have a seat in the house of Representatives. If Tony Abbot or Julia Gizzard is Prime Minister it means nought, all legislation to be passed must suit the Greens or it does not happen. Legislation proposed by Labour or Liberal will be Tit for Tat with the Greens or it won’t happen, Liberals will have to sit around and think of legislation that suits the Greens, (sacrificial lambs) so that they can get there own wages bills through the Senate. Guess who will be the lambs? Lee RHIANNON of the Anti Gun Coalition was elected as member of the Senate, for the Greens of course. The media ‘Push Poll’ with contrived questions and answers changing their allegiance from Labour to Green, building Profiles and attacking any independence.
There are 14 million Australians registered to vote on the roles. Yesterday 10 million bothered to vote, even though voting is compulsory and they face a fine for not voting. Can you imagine fining 4 million people, they make an excuse , it gets lost in the mail, or they pay the fine. With 77 % of the vote counted 618,429 voted for one of the largest parties, INFORMAL, so nearly 5 million eligible to vote refused, or had other things to do. More than likely there is another million or so who ensure that they are not on the register to vote so that they do not get a fine. 9 ½ million people voted for the four major parties. Of course the ones that did nothing, were the largest majority of all.
All the dedicated, sweat, tears and money donated by the brave few who tried to change things with independents and minor parties achieved nothing, but an expensive education, with a few single figure percentages.
Of course apathy Won the day, these days it seems everyday. In our area we are told by the Queensland police that there are 15,000 licensed shooters, in our Council area. That is the highest percent per population in Queensland and maybe Australia. Even in the rest of Australia, when we include their families, it should be the largest and best voting group in the country, they should be the king makers. Yet, they are told by politicians and the media that they are a minority and so believe they are a minority. All the customers that come in the shop, see the posters and talk politics, at that point they all detest the major parties and that sick looking homosexual Brown who is green on the outside and red on the inside. When I went to the local church hall to vote, two of my farmer customers were handing out ‘how to vote’ cards for the LNP. They approached me sheepishly, I asked them what they were doing there, supporting a party that had sold them into economic slavery and taken their guns of them. They had answers, such as “it’s the better of two evils”. So they worked for their own destruction, the media had done its job. Our education system, combined with tight media control has them in the grip of its only party, party A and party B, Tweedldum and Tweedldee. Shooters are still voting the same way, they believe that will make a difference.
In the 1960s and 1970s the socialists, had a concerted campaign to fill university with lecturers and professors of their political persuasion, so they supply the schools with teachers, the courts with judges, the TV stations, newspapers with journalists all from their Green on the outside red on the inside perspective, and it worked. We have payed for an educations system that destroys us. Our people think that freedom is choosing which TV channel they watch.
We keep our kids at school until they are 18 and then they can vote. I have interviewed many of them, many of them that matriculated to university. I ask them questions, What’ is the largest island in the world, what the second highest mountain, what’s the longest river, who wrote ‘Great Expectations’, Who painted the ‘Morna Lisa’. What is 13 x 12, What is the capital of France, Who invented the light bulb, What did Beethoven write? If I get one correct answer I put the flag up, but in the main because most do not have any answers, I use it as a gauge as to what they know of the world around them. Most do not know what a ‘capital’ is, some think its just big letters. We have paid dearly for an education system that might teach them to use a mobile phone but gives them no idea or incentive to make one. I left school while I was still 14 and joined the Regular Army on my 15 th birthday, a limited education with poor grammar and spelling but I knew all of the answers to the above questions and a lots more. I can only conclude that there has been a campaign, ‘Stage one’ to Dumb Down the public over the last fifty years. Once that ‘dumbing’ has been achieved it makes ‘Stage two’ the power of the media, to have much greater affect as it lessens any chance of the people being able to think for themselves. They galvanise the public into believing that there are only two options, which really are the same option. There are many examples of the media making the people into ‘Lemmings’ (they are those little four legged animals that every few years, follow one another and jump into the sea,) like the rats in the Pied Pipier of Hamlyn following him into the river, then when not being paid, the Piper returns and pipes the children into the river. One of those very real examples of the media inciting a National destruction is when the Japanese media outlets informed the simple civilian peasants of Okinawa, (350 miles from Japan) that they would suffer rape, torture and murder at the hands of the Americans, the Okinawans believed them and fought to the death, the American troops were at times confronted with battalions of women armed with pointed sticks who fought to the death. Massed suicides of the civilian population with the people throwing themselves off cliffs. 142,000 civilians died, even though the Americans dropped surrender pamphlets like snow, the people would not believe, that the Americans only wanted to give them money so they could buy Hersey Bars, Cocoa Cola and Chewing Gum. The Japanese had ‘dumbed down’ the population and indoctrinated them into believing that the Americans would do awful things to them and so they led the people into mass suicide, over the cliffs. Well the Pied Piper has played the tune in the western world our next generations have been well and truly piped up and are now formed up in controlled rows ready to go over the cliffs, to their doom. What do we do, join in the throng? Move to another country? Or do we try to educate and inform? Whatever, it has to be something different as elections only work to further enslave the people.

Tasco 4x 32 Silver Antler Rifle Scope

Thirty years ago we would have paid a $1000. for the same quality of vision and precision, a guaranteed leading optical manufacturer who warranties their products all over the World. They have a light gathering clarity that would have made those old dark Pecar’s appear like looking through a knot hole in fathers wooden leg. What’s more they are Waterproof. In 1970 during a storm in the Victorian mountains I can remember emptying my Pecar like a jug. It had a steel tube but it leaked like a sieve.I was so disappointed I hunted Samba for years with open sites as I wanted reliability. I took the low priced option then and will always follow that example, at this price I could afford to buy a spare one.

$50. plus post

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Gun Books Make Great Presents, Easy To Post and with years of use and enjoyment. We have over a 1000 Gun Books in stock.
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For Example Hunting Australia’s Deer by Dave Drangsholt, 294 pages on the How, Where, and What of Deer hunting in Australia.

As well as this book By Dave Drangsholt we also have in stock his “A Deer Cullers Tale”,

$42. each plus post.

The Range Officer Handbook

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As already purchased by members of all Shooting Organisations.Some have even bought two copies one for home and one to take to the club. See Book Reviews by Nick Harvey in Sporting Shooters and Guns Australia in our new Gun Book Category.

It’s a week since I received a copy of “Range Officers Hand Book” and since that time I am nearly at the half way mark. I’m amazed at the at the number of subjects you have covered making it one of the most informative books to be added to my collection. It must have taken you a considerable amount of time and experience to publish the book with information not available in other popular Gunsmith manuals. I would recommend the book to “Range Officers” and anyone interested in the sport of target shooting and hunting.
Regards
Gene M Cornford P.O.Box 288, Kaeo 0448 N.Z. Firearms Gunsmith, Dip M.G.S +Member of American Gunsmithing Assoc.

The Range Officers Handbook is an encyclopedia or omnibus of firearms and ammunition and the use of them, it has:-
• 90   pages of Information for Range Officers,
• 239 pages on Coaching to Win,
• 110 pages on Air Rifle History &Training,
• 33   pages on hitting Clay Targets,
• 34   pages on Reloading Ammunition,
•    6   page of Contents,
• 18   pages of Index,
• 38   pages of Old into New, ( Chronological History of Firearms)
• 23   pages of Glossary of Terminology on Firearms and Optics
• Over 1000 drawings and photographs.
• Over 530 pages in a A4 stitched colour hardback.,
Some, hopefully will read it cover to cover, others will pick a heading out of the Contents pages and read a chapter or two, but no matter how much you know about shooting, reference material is always needed, as even people who rate as genius cannot retain everything. The real ability is being able to find out quickly and easily. You can check that you have the correct terminology, in the Glossary, check the Index and go straight to the right page. This book can be used as an information tool for a lifetime of shooting.

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Chrony Chronographs measure the velocity of your ammunition.

You have now should all have the free Ballistic Calculator if you haven’t got it already there is a link further down this page. Without a Chornograph to give you a known velocity, shooting is all just guess work. There are only two known facts available to a shooter, the hole it makes in the target and its speed. (Pressure guns are not available to us mere mortals) You cannot test, your rifle and ammunition by how much noise it makes or how hard it kick’s you. Get a chronograph, they have never been any cheaper for this quality and if you don’t do it now they will be dearer when you want one next. Then you will be kicking yourself harder than a .600 Nitro Express. They fold up really compact to take to the range, open them up shoot throught the wires and the light meters will give you a print out on the little screen. They fit onto nearly every camera tripod. One of our customers fired through the clear screen, brought it back for warrentry, as it didn’t work. Please do not do this, as they are not supposed to be bullet proof.

$198. plus post.

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• Incredibly rugged – the Riflemans 1&Prime main tube aircraft-grade aluminum to withstand heavy, repeated recoil.

• 100% waterproof; filled with bone-dry nitrogen and sealed for waterproof integrity.

• The Wide Duplex reticle is designed for a variety of hunting and shooting applications.

• Ample eye relief protects your eye from heavy recoil.

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• Elevation and windage adjustment dials marked in ½ MOA increments.

• Fully coated lenses transmit a bright sight picture, even in low light conditions.

Leupold Rifle Scopes 3–9×40 $295. Best Prices in Australia

UNDERSTANDING RELOADING AMMUNITION

MAKING POWDER.

Continued on from Edtion 42

Deterrents.
If you have been reading this series of articles and continue to do so, you will be one of the tiny points of a percentage of people in Australia who have any understanding of the methods and materials used in manufacturing smokeless powder. ( Well nearly smokeless) Knowing what goes into these processes, understanding why, and how gives you more confidence in making decisions in your overall reloading procedure. Even if you cannot remember in future months all the details you know where the information is, where it is stored on the Owengun.com page so you can find it or direct others to read this series of articles.
If for artillery use, then DPB might be added for the same purpose. Artillery powders would also require addition of a deterrent at this point to slow down burning. Dinitrotolulene (DNT) is normally used for this purpose. It is highly hygroscopic so must be broken up and screened just prior to addition to the mix.
Once all secondary ingredients have been added, the mixer is closed and started. The operator leaves the building or enters a barricaded safety area while the mixer is running. Mixing is done by two counter-rotating Sigma blades, two-blade paddles resembling the letter S, rotating in a horizontal plane.
After a short time, the operator shuts down the mixer and uses a non-sparking tool to break loose any mix that has gathered where the blades could not reach it. Solvent mix is also added at this time if it appears necessary to the operator. Experience is invaluable in determining whether the mixture is too dry.
Mixing then proceeds to completion which is determined to a degree by elapsed time, but also by the operator’s experience. Considerable quantities of alcohol-ether vapours are generated by mixing and must be drawn off into the recovery system.
Flash fires were once fairly common in this operation, but in recent years they have become rare. Experience and sophisticated safety measures, plus the use of highly responsible personnel, paid off in safer operations.
It is worthwhile to mention here that scrap powder generated in the various processes is reworked by either using it (plus solvent) to charge the mixer, or by adding it to the nitro-cellulose charge. The scrap consists generally of broken powder strings, defective grains, “heels” from the various processes. Nothing is wasted, as is clearly shown by the vast and expensive recovery systems.
Coming from the mixer, the powder is ivory to yellow in colour, depending on the mix, and looks somewhat like damp brown sugar. It is partially colloided and the process must be continued in a machine called a macerator.
The powder is transferred directly to the macerator where gear-like blades and teeth knead the mixture under tremendous pressure. The blades are closely meshed and rotate in opposite directions. Solvent content of the powder is very important at this stage, neither too wet nor too dry. No more solvent can be added during maceration, yet the powder will ignite if it becomes too dry while the machine is running. Considerable heat is generated by the kneading process, so the macerator is fitted with a cooling jacket through which refrigerated
alcohol is circulated. By this means, powder temperature is held at about 68°-72°F.
The macerator continues the colloiding operation, converting the powder to a rubbery mass that can be pulled apart by the fingers. It is removed in irregular chunks and transferred immediately to the preliminary blocking (pre-block) stage.
In pre-block, the rubbery chunks are charged into the cylinder of a large vertical press. With the press closed, ram pressure is applied very slowly to force excessive solvent from individual chunks. Pressure is slowly increased to compact the colloided powder into a solid block. If pressure is applied too fast, an attendant temperature increase may cause the powder to flash and burn, that would not conducive to the press operator’s peace of mind. When the compressed cake is fully formed, it is ejected from the press cylinder and immediately transferred to the “macaroni” press in the next barricaded compartment.
The macaroni press performs two functions; that of extruding the powder into thin strands (thus its name), then re-compressing them into a solid block.
The pre-block is placed in the chamber of the macaroni press. The ram applies force to the top of the block, forcing the plastic powder to flow through a number of individual dies set in a plate in the bottom of the cylinder. It emerges as long, round strands which fall directly into the cylinder of a floor-level blocking press with its ram retracted.
This extrusion continues the colloiding action begun by the mixer and carried on by the macerator. Screens placed between the powder blocks and the die plate, catch and hold un-colloided lumps of nitrocellulose or other free ingredients that still exist. Great pressure is required to accomplish the extrusion, being built up slowly to just over 5,000 psi.
When extrusion of a cake is complete, the macaroni press is stopped and the powder strands broken off and dropped into the blocking press. This press is then capped and its ram rises to compact the mass into a twelve inch diameter cake fifteen to eighteen inches long. The cake or “block” is then ready for the graining presses. Continued in the Next Edition.
Continued in Next Edition

Lee Breech Lock Challenger Reloading Kit

Includes Sold Cast ‘O’ Frame Press, Scales, Powder Measure, Case Trimmers, Case Lube, Auto Primer and Powder Funnel. All you need is Dies and shell holders for your calibres.
The Breech Lock Challenger Kit, A Reloading Kit Gift at $199.
An Extra benefit includes a Lee Auto Primer.

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BAIT THROWERS

Sling Shots as seen in use on the Streets of Bankok. If you cannot get a firearm seems as though these are the next best thing to take on the M16 opposition. Even though they lost the battle for the streets they won points for bravery. These have an internal magazine for quick loading, Extra effective using round lead musket balls for ammo.

Catapults, Slingshots, Bait Casters all names for the above.

$40. Steel Balls $1.00 for 30, plus post.

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Owen Guns Bulletin Edition 42 August 2010

Ron Owen — Sun, 01 Aug 2010 10:10:28 +0000

Welcome to the Forty Second Edition of the Owen Guns Bulletin.

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Classified Guns for Sale – ADVERTISE YOUR GUNs HERE. New Site Just Opened, but selling guns so fast than we cannot photograph them and get them up there quick enough. We need yours to sell on
Electronic Classifieds!

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Visit our new Guns for Sale Classifieds listings now

Thompson TC Venture, Guaranteed 1 minute of angle, Bolt Action Rifles.

ACCURACY AND CRAFTSMANSHIP
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$950. plus freight.

Electronic Ear Muffs

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Protects hearing above 85 db
Able to hear normal conversations and sounds to 85 decibels
Over 200 hours of battery life
Auto-adjust headband
Solid state circuit
Rotary on-off volume knob
HOW THE ELECTRONIC EAR MUFFS WORK
These electronic ear muffs are a high standard ear muff in design, they are made to feel light and comfortable for all day use. They can be used as standard ear muff when the electronic component is not turned on and will passively reduce noise like any normal ear muff. They have a standard noise reduction rating of 29 decibel and are a Class 5.
Once turned on the microphone, located at the top of the ear muff, will pick up and amplify ambient noise. If some one standing next to you talks, their voice will be amplified through the speakers in both ear muffs. Should there be a loud noise, such as a firearm, the electronic ear muffs will automatically cut out and block the loud noise. The electronic ear muffs are designed to attenuate noise about 85 decibels, meaning that they will block out instantly, once the noise reaches a certain level. The electronic ear muffs allow you to control the volume level of ambient noise around you. On the shooting range with constant loud reports, the electronic ear muffs will block this noise. For range instructions or to communicate with another person, you can instantly hear them speak.
At the range or anywhere ear protection is constantly required, but you also need to hear instructions from others or you wish to be more aware of the ambient sound around you, these electronic ear muffs are what you need.

$75.50 plus post.

MARLIN XS7 Bolt Action Centre Fire Rifle.

This new Marlin has taken the best designs from all the best bolt action design features from Savage Accu trigger,barrel Lock system, Winchester Mod 70, Push feed extractor bolt release catch, Remington 700 profile bolt handle, and safety catch. Mauser internal magazine system. Includes a one piece weaver style mount base. Only in .243 & .308w sized actions at present.

$699. plus post.

Not I pods but Bipods by Remington

Bi-pods that telescope and fold under your rifles forearm, (made famous by Harris,’Patents ran out’) fit to QD (Quick Detachable) Swivel Stud. Ten years ago they retailed for over $150 now while stocks last half Price

$79.plus post

Accurate Firearm Design

Designs to Improve Function.

Prince Hohenlohe in his “Letters on Artillery,” the “Bible” of artillery officers of forty years ago, stated that the first duty of the Artillery was to hit, and the second duty was to Hit, and the third duty was to HIT! The same may be said of the user of a small arm. Shooters can only hit reliably with firearms designed to shoot in a particular method to suit a particular discipline or type of target. A Benchrest rifle is not suitable for shooting Metallic Silhouette. A small arms breech action should be so designed that it will lend itself to incorporation into a complete assembly of arm which will be suitable for the particular manners of shooting. Rifle, shotgun or handgun the firearm has to suit the physical requirements of producing consistency which is what accuracy is all about.
For example, To aim a shoulder arm accurately and steadily in all firing positions the shooter’s face must be laid down in a natural and relaxed manner so that the cheek rests firmly on the left side of the comb of the stock. When the head and cheek are so rested the right eye is then held steady with respect to the weapon, as though it was a part thereof. The dimensions and shapes of parts, stock, receiver, and sights, must then be such that the pupil of the eye comes naturally and without effort into the line of aim through the sights. If a receiver were so designed that its high rear portion extended way back over what is called the “small of the stock” the head would have to be held way back in an uncomfortable, constrained, and unsteady position to prevent the recoil driving that portion of the receiver back into the eye, and accurate shooting would be an impossibility. Many semi-automatic weapons have been designed with just such a receiver, but of course in our heavily legislated, conservative industry new designs never get to first base.
It is well known general assumption that, other things being equal, the heavier the barrel of a rifle the more accurately will it shoot. A very light barrel, that is, light with respect to the power of the cartridge it shoots, is notorious for inconsistent shooting. The breech action design must be such as will permit the use of a barrel heavy enough for good accuracy.
Sights for modern rifles are all of the Telescopic sight of a variation and must, be located within three or four inches of the eye when the rifle is in a normal firing positions. The breech action must lend itself to proper location of suitable sights of this type.
The advantages of the telescope sight are such that many, a majority of sporting and target rifles will all be equipped with them for the foreseeable future. A telescope sight of normal design must be located centrally over the top of the breech action and barrel, and it is desirable that it also be located as low down as possible, almost touching barrel and receiver. A modern breech action for a rifle should be designed with respect to its receiver for loading, direction of ejection, safety in controlling the internal gas pressures and so as to permit a suitable location of a telescope sight. Importance is not necessarily in that order.
For effective rapid fire the round bolt handle knob of a bolt action rifle should be located on the right side of the receiver, and to the rear in a plane even with the trigger. The handle should be turned down close to the side of the receiver or stock so that it is just possible to get the right fore-finger under it easily to raise it. If a fired case sticks in such an action the easiest and the quickest way to free it is to strike the bolt handle knob with the palm of the right hand. To permit striking a heavy blow without injuring the hand the knob should be round, not flat as seen on those ‘butter knife’ European rifles.
There are three types of shoulder arm stocks which in their outline, shape, and dimensions have proved to be very satisfactory for the shooter and his method of shooting. The best examples of these are the hunting rifle stocks as seen on the standard hunting rifles such as Remington and Winchester, or the prone target rifle stocks seen on the AIA M10 or old Omark M44 Target Rifles, and finally the shotgun stock as seen on most of the higher grades English double barrelled rifles and shotguns. Shoulder arm breech actions should be such that they will permit the fitting these types of stocks which alone, generally speaking, lend themselves to the steadiest holding and quick catching of aim in the various normal firing positions, on both level and sloping ground. Even with all the money that governments spend on their military rifles, none should not be taken as an ideal, for a military, hunting or target stock. Every military stock in the world is a massive compromise of needs, such as the average size of the soldier, or its design for bayonet fighting, or how it fits in the storage racks, or will it suit the Army drill book. All will be modified from the ideal dimensions for other reasons such as to utilize many millions of sawed stock blanks already on hand before the new rifle was designed. The last reason will be the personal need for the soldier issued with it to defend his and his comrades lives with it. Dollars are worth more than lives.
The best form of hand-gun grip is perhaps that used on the Hi-Standard Model D semi-automatic pistol. Many completely trained master handgun shooters prefer grips specially made to fit their hand exactly, but it is thought that a frame similar to the above Hi-Standard pistol will generally adapt itself to the form and shape of grip that the competitive pistol shot will usually design for himself.

P 4 EDI-T Head Hunter Shooting Torch, $79.plus post.

Mount is $42.00 plus post.

Tasco 3–9 x 40 Varibale World Class Riflescope $117.

Yes, I know this is a photograph of the 6×40 World Class but Im at home doing this and the scopes and camera are at Owen Guns, the difference is that the variables have the adustment ring as in the photograph on the box. Tasco has been a leading name in the optical industry for eons, Tasco’s World Class Scope has been an industry standard since the 1980s it is the scope that many others are judged against and found lacking. The World Class due to its World Class forever Guarantee is rarely used we have sold thousands of them and I have been dealing with Tasco since 1975. The vision is quality, the adjustments are precision and the cross hairs are the rights sized for target or hunting. They were selling there for $190. Now Only $117.00

Special $117.00 plus postage

Winchester Wildcat.

Ten shot .22 long Rifle Bolt Action.

Q.D. Sling swivel studs, ten shot magazine, duel locking lugs, cocking indicator, sfaety catch leaver, dovetailed for scope mounts, very dependable rifle, made in Russia for Wincheter.

$375. plus postage.

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Thought For The Week.

Shoulders to the Wheel.
If shooters, (and Fishermen and Four wheel drivers) do not act within the next three weeks to express, their horror of what is going to befall this country, then another ‘plague will be on our houses’, even worse than what the little ‘evil gnome’ (John Howard) did to us in 1998.

It is a case of act now, speak out, tell all your friends and family, as well as writing to the local papers, encourage everyone to show their revulsion of what Labour and the Greens have sworn to do to us all, or bury your head in the sand and accept everything that they do to you.
We are currently being attack presently in both the Federal and the State levels and due to a media feeding frenzy on the Federal election idea of Tweedledee or Tweedledummer the issues important to freedom and our way of life will never get a mention. Most people’s only solution is to replace Labour with Liberals. This is similar to actual beef cattle preferring Mc Donald’s to Hungry Jacks. Either way, the cattle lose.
The Liberal/Nationals, who the voting cattle may take a shine to, send the shooting voters through the same meat-grinders as Labour does. You will be queuing up, wondering if your going to get anything for your property, same as last time with the same bunch of crooks running the handing in process. The principle is no different as both parties will put your firearms, your hopes and dreams through the government meat-grinders. Both main parties put Australian freedoms, hunting , fishing, target shooting, four wheel driving at the disposal of Big Banks, George Sorus, Rebecca Peters, and the Green agenda. The Greens, Green on the Outside Red in the Middle.
Both parties, want to woo, the Greens for power in the Senate, both parties keep the same gang of thieves in control of Australia’s financial position. Both main parties are totally dependent on the campaign contributions from the Big Banks. Neither party helps the people to find employment, both want to import more cheap labour from Asia and Africa. In short, both parties are full of liars and con-artists. Voting for either of these political machines is an exercise in “stupidity” which allows us to view those who vote this way as stupid based on the foolish/stupid act that they commit when they vote for further enslavement. Of course the main parties propagate this idea that voting is important and legislate to make it compulsory as they both know that currently it does not make any difference. They get paid anyway. They must think we are all fools.
Albert Einstein once defined insanity as, “doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.” By Einstein’s definition, it is very clear that past voting falls squarely within Einstein’s definition of insanity. Every two or four years the politicians from both parties determine what the voting cattle want to hear and they tell it to them. The voters actually believe what they’re being told each and every time and do their duty to the national scam and cast their vote for their favourite liar. Then, after an appropriate amount of time passes, the voters realize they’ve been fooled by the politicians and get “mad as Hell” and vow to “vote the liars out of office” in the next election. A major problem with this is there are only other liars to replace the first set of liars with! However, since voting is much easier and safer than revolution, the ‘sheeple’ are happy to perform their duty. They are so sold on the scam of replacing one group of charlatans with another group of charlatans. The fact that voting for one crook over another only reinforces evil and gives more life to the scam, which the politically insane cannot grasp.

The New Weapons Act for Queensland.The exposure draft of the Weapons Bill will be available on the Queensland police website http://www.police.qld.gov.au/ on August 6. You have to act, don’t hope for the main opposition party to block it, ore even speak against it, its up to you, you have to tell all of the charlatans that you will dedicate the rest of your life to the destruction of ‘both of their houses’, and mean it.
Evan Moorhead MP, the Labour state member for Waterford.Has stated. “I support stronger weapon regulation. I also support the cost of regulation being recovered from owners of weapons. I cannot justify asking my constituents to subsidise the cost of weapons ownership through extra taxes”.
What arrogance, what a deception. He should get a thousand letters asking him, why he supports this regulation, when the regulated are innocent, their only wrong is that they complied. There taxes contribute to a Police and Justice system that’s totally failed, that allows the paedophiles, dope pushers, free government run dope ‘shooting galleries’, the general public to be the prey of both criminals and police.
Moorhead and his mates can justify the imposition on the good, while the bad can do what ever they like. Are they fools, that cannot understand that their neighbours ownership of firearms protects them. (might be all the protection they have left) Are they so secure in ignorance, that they don’t know that we are the lambs to the slaughter. Firearm owners are not a danger to the community, politicians like these are a danger to the community as they wish to leave all of the people helpless. Most people, are aware that the joke, “That the Bikers Gang are doing it tough, they had to lay off five of our local Policemen”, is only funny because its true. Click this link to email Queensland Government Ministers: Email all Government Members.

Put Green,Labour Liberal LAST

The Greens, without your solid intervention, are most likely to be the new controlling power in the Australian Senate. One of the new Senators will be Lee Rhiannon who is one of the five members of the Coalition for Gun Control with John Crook, Rebecca Peters.
Her parties policy is;-
“To reduce the number of firearms in circulation particularly high-powered firearms. (Their definition could include a high power air rifle)
Tough legislation to reduce firearm ownership,
Ban all semi-automatic handguns,
Strengthen nationally uniform gun laws,
Publicly expose the aims and tactics of the gun lobby,
The abolition of existing minors’ permits,
All applicants for shooters licence to have a character reference from an authorised member of the community and the right of veto by household (immediate relatives or partners) members,
Undergo tests for licences conducted by the police, or an independent government body, rather than by members of the Shooters’ Associations,
That personal protection should never be regarded as a genuine reason for owning, possessing or using a firearm,
A register of all ammunition bought and sold to be kept by all outlets,
Guns in urban areas are to be stored at gun clubs under lock and key, with firing mechanisms kept at designated police stations;
Regular unannounced checks by police or another enforcement body to ensure that individuals and clubs are abiding with firearm storage regulations,
Enforcement of regulations requiring guns in homes in rural communities to be kept in a metal box with a combination lock securely bolted to wall or floor, with firing mechanisms and ammunition locked in a similar box in a separate room,
A ban on the so-called sport of ‘combat shooting’ where participants use semi-automatic handguns to shoot human-shaped targets in simulated scenarios,
Rural owners of licensed firearms to limit their use of firearms to legitimate farm purposes, and to use their firearms in ways that minimise disturbance of people on neighbouring properties, and reduce lead pollution in the local environment.

They have obviously forgotten the firearm safety record of the Police in all states is almost a compulsory matter of waiting to be shot by the accidental discharge of their work mates firearm or their own. They have missed the point completely that as well as a National body investigation Police Crime there has been for the last twenty years in every State a full time commission investigation into Police involvement in Crime. Do the Greens want to give all the guns to a body that has been under investigation for twenty years? Is it only because like the Gestapo they are the employee’s of the State and carry out the politicians dirty work, or because they trade in guns, and drugs?
You will also note that they the ‘Pistol shooters’ are due to get it in the neck again. Not long ago I can recall there main Association stating that they agreed with licensing and registration, they had complied with it years ago so why were the rifle shooters complaining. They refused to help. Well, now again its their turn. I hope we all learnt from that, and put our shoulders to the wheel together this time.
There has been many letters to the editor on this subject of our greatest threat, Disunity and I am slowly getting them up on the website at this link… Click Here

Put Green,Labour Liberal LAST

Remember consistency in the commonality of corruption found deep in all the major parties it is a primary reason Australia is consistently sinking. This consistent Tweedledee or Tweedledummer only accelerates the decline in happiness and the quality of life as well as the continued erosion of our rights and liberties. Look for alternatives such as the Shooters and Fishers Party they are putting up two Senate candidates for Queensland Andrew PETER and Chris HUGGETT I know nothing about these people check their website for yourself http://www.shootersandfishers.org.au we must find alternatives as a vote for our enemies kill us and our friends.

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UNDERSTANDING RELOADING AMMUNITION

MAKING POWDER.
Continued on from Edition 40

Just as it comes from the wringer, the soft, irregular chunks of nitrocellulose are placed in the cylinder of the dehydration press. The press has two opposed vertical rams operating in a single cylinder. The nitrocellulose is placed in the cylinder with both rams retracted. Hydraulic pressure is applied and the rams move toward each other until stopped by the mass of nitrocellulose. Then, alcohol (pure grain alcohol of 180 proof, not the poisonous denatured variety) is forced into the nitrocellulose through the top ram. As alcohol feeds into the cake of nitrocellulose, water surrounding the individual fibres is displaced by the alcohol. Being heavier than alcohol, the water flows downward through the screened head of the lower ram into a tank. Later, stray alcohol is pulled out of the water by an efficient recovery system. Once the water is displaced, high pressure (around 3,000 psi) is applied to compact the nitrocellulose. Excess alcohol is squeezed out in the process and returned to supply. The dehydrated cake (containing about 49 lbs. dry nitrocellulose and 13.5 lbs. alcohol) is removed from the press and broken up into chunks by means of non-sparking tools. At this point it becomes known as “powder.”
This is as good a time as any to point out that all of the foregoing operations are continuous and interdependent. Once the dry linters or wood pulp begin nitration, they must pass rapidly and smoothly from one operation to the next. No hold-overs can be allowed at any point. All operations are conducted to meet the nitrocellulose requirements of the powder mill. This is done by varying the output of the nitating plant, not by stock piling. Because of this requirement for continuous operation, nitrating plants operate around the clock or not at all. At no time can an operator or shift cease operation until replacements are on hand to insure continuous operation. Also, the completed nitrocellulose must be delivered immediately directly to the first operation of the powder mill before any significant evaporation can take place. If it should sit idle for any great time, a fire is certain. From the dehydration house, the broken cakes are transferred in fibre buckets direct to the mixers. No delay is permissible because the highly volatile alcohol evaporates rapidly. Any great amount of evaporation will produce a flash fire. This can be a real problem in hot, dry weather. In the mixing house, individual mixers are housed in heavily barricaded rooms or compartments.The broken cakes are dumped into mixers virtually identical to heavy duty bread-dough mixing machines found in large commercial bakeries. The charge is carefully weighed and any alcohol lost by evaporation in transit is replaced. The alcohol is readily drawn from a nearby tap to meet this requirement.
(While one never sees a tin cup hanging alongside the tap, most people have often wondered whether some shrinkage might not be accounted for by thirsty mixer tenders. I can recall my own younger Army days and recall the hearing about the pickled condition of the two Royal Marines who were responsible for guarding the body of Admiral Nelson. As it was preserved for the trip back to England in a huge oak cask of Brandy. Lots of jokes about how much body was in it but you can be sure that they did not pure it down the drain when they took the body out for burial.)

To the alcohol-wet nitrocellulose is added a precisely calculated amount of previously blended ether-alcohol solvent. Ether cannot be used straight for this purpose. The usual mixture is 65 to 67 per cent ether and 33 to 35 per cent alcohol.Other ingredients required to control the burning characteristics of the powder are now added to the nitrocellulose solvent mix. These will vary considerably, according to the type of powder being produced and the individual specifications for that powder.Most important of these is the stabilizer which functions to prevent decomposition of the powder from this point onward. Pretty much the standard stabilizer, since 1909 is diphenylamine (DPA). It is an oily, pale yellow, granular material. Should there be infinitesimal amounts of acids left in the nitrocellulose, DPA counteracts their effect by combining with liberated oxides to form stable compounds. This effectively prevents deterioration with as little as 1 per cent DPA.Potassium sulphate may also be added at this time to reduce muzzle flash if the powder is intended for military small arms use. Continued in Next Edition

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BAIT THROWERS

Sling Shots as seen in use on the Streets of BangKok. If you cannot get a firearm seems as though these are the next best thing to take on the M16 opposition. Even though they lost the battle for the streets they won points for bravery. These have an internal magazine for quick loading, Extra effective using round lead musket balls for ammo.

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Owen Guns Bulletin Edition 41 July 2010

Ron Owen — Sun, 11 Jul 2010 06:06:04 +0000

Welcome to the Forty First Edition of the Owen Guns Bulletin.

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P 4 EDI-T head Hunter Shooting Torch, $79.plus post.

Swiss Army Tool Kit $135. plus post

RE: Victorinox Multitool
Thought I might give a quick review of the above multi tool as I have had one for five years now. First thing I observed was that the locking mechanism leaves ALL the others for dead and is easily manipulated. The range of tools is well thought out and I have found uses for everything from the two knife blades (straight and serrated) as well as the screwdriver and the pliers which I have used to cut 3mm high tensile wire after watching another brand which cost twice the price of mine snap through the head of the pliers. Even down to the saw which whilst small is extremely efficient with its twin rows of teeth. My tool lives on my belt and some function on it is used daily, from one of the blades to screwdrivers to bottle and can openers. When I am in the bush my tool is there and I reckon that it is more of a survival knife than any of the so called “survival” knives and I should know, as the bush to me is the edge of the Great Sandy Desert! I have lived here now for three years and the same tool has been on my belt all that time and still looks pretty much brand new despite its daily use! Yes the leather pouch is a little weather worn but after three years out here –so am I! I have observed SOG’s and Leatherman tools break and snap and fail to do many jobs out here but give the Swiss tool a go and it has NEVER LET ME down – Not once! In one of the harshest climates in the world this tool has been tested and not found wanting like many others. In my opinion if you want the best buy a Victorinox Multitool – Three years here is like a life time of normal use.
Cheers
Andrew Norris

Editors Note. Andrew Norris lives in Newman, at the edge of the Little Sandy Desert. He manages the Ranger and Emergency Services for the local shire Council. IT is the largest shire in the world, as it goes from the WA coast and the start of the eighty mile beach to the NT border covering over 370,000square kilometres. He regularly ventures into the Great Sandy desert to deal with Aboriginal communities there on a number of levels. He has tested his knife from Telfer, Cotton Creek, Kiwikurra, Punmu, Kunawaritji, Jigalong, and all points in between and states that it has never let him down.

Armed Under & Over 12 gauge $775.

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Winchester Wildcat. Ten shot .22 long Rifle Bolt Action.

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Nick Harvey’s Practical Reloading Manual

Here is one great example, Nick Harvey’s Practical Reloading Manual, one of the very few books to have the latest Australian Powders and Australian cartriges for Australian conditions. Its on its ninth edition, full to the brim this specific information make it almost a must for the Australian reloading shooter.

$49. plus $10 all over Australia and even overseas to Tasmania.

If you need any more details about the other titles we have in our list just phone 07 54825070 or 07 54 824099 or Fax 07 54824718 or email owenguns@spiderweb.com.au

The Range Officer Handbook

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Another Example is our Best Seller as it is Australian written and produced with the Australian Shooting conditions in mind. If you like the small articles included with this Bulletin, Accurate Firearm Design and Understanding Cartridge Reloading and want to read an encyclopedia on shooting by the same author buy The Range Officer Handbook.
As already purchased by members of all Shooting Organisations.Some have even bought two copies one for home and one to take to the club. See Book Reviews by Nick Harvey in Sporting Shooters and Guns Australia in our new Gun Book Category.

“It’s a week since I received a copy of “Range Officers Hand Book” and since that time I am nearly at the half way mark. I’m amazed at the at the number of subjects you have covered making it one of the most informative books to be added to my collection. It must have taken you a considerable amount of time and experience to publish the book with information not available in other popular Gunsmith manuals. I would recommend the book to “Range Officers” and anyone interested in the sport of target shooting and hunting.
Regards
Gene M Cornford P.O.Box 288, Kaeo 0448 N.Z. Firearms Gunsmith, Dip M.G.S +Member of American Gunsmithing Assoc.“

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CALL TO ACTION

As this Bulletin is a Call To Action, Accurate Firearm Design and Undertanding Reloading Ammunition will be continued in Edition 42.

This was a thought provoking response to my last “Thought for the week”

Hi Ron,
Regarding your thought for the week, it gets even worse than that. We fight amongst ourselves between disciplines. I enjoy all aspects of shooting. I have been a keen hunter since I could walk, I enjoy ISSF, western action, service, and IPSC to different degrees. I believe if the only reason you want to own a firearm is to stand on the range and pump lead into the mound then that’s a valid reason. But I hear so much fighting and hatred for other disciplines I can’t help but think we are doomed.
I have heard club captains trying to ban 9mm’s at their club because they claim they are inaccurate and all the shooter is doing is filling the mound with lead. I have heard ISSF pistol shooters say that IPSC and western action should be banned. And I have heard the same being spat back at them from the other disciplines too. I have seen many of them laughing at a denied police approval for a particular .223 caliber pistol saying “what possible reason could you want that, it looks like an assault weapon”. I was ignored when I said that it would make a good metallic silhouette pistol. If you closed your eyes you would think you were sitting at a coalition for gun control meeting.
We have the state body (of QAPSA) in QLD trying to have it legislated that to own a pistol you must be a member of them or the SSAA. Because at the moment IPSC, Western action, and casual shooters who don’t compete don’t have to join either. They’re trying to get more members to better fund state and national teams so we have better international representation, but they’re going about it the wrong way, what is it, you catch more flies with honey or something. They think we need international representation to validate our handgun ownership. (That’s just an excuse) Why not argue that it shouldn’t matter, that we should have a right to our freedom and to do what we want so long as we don’t harm anyone else in the process. That’s what we should be spending our money on convincing the pollies about. Not who can shoot what.
If you take away all pistol shooters except only one discipline, how long do you think handguns will be allowed in this country? While we keep fighting with one another we are doomed and I am left with a fear that my kids wont be able to enjoy the same freedoms that I have, if you can still call it freedom.
Cheers.

CALL TO ARMS, TAKE ATTENTION ON THIS, IMMEDIATE ACTION IS NEEDED.

So on that basis, now is the time to do a little bit even if you do not live in Queensland, most of us all live in Australia, No man is an Island we are all dependent on the mainland. So put your shoulder to the wheel and send a few emails. Just a few moments of your time could assist all our future at this key time. Over the last two years I have been warning that due to the massive increase in firearm ownership in Queensland that the government had two choices;- one to scrap the registration of long arms, or,
two, to increase the restrictions on registered firearms and licenced owners to what they consider to be a manageable amount.
Unfortunately, but not surprisingly, they have chosen the latter.
In June 2007 the Government requested submissions from all interested parties. Apparently, the goal of the review was to “bring the Weapons Act into the 21st Century”. To the best of our knowledge, none of the key proposals recommended by shooting organizations were adopted or supported by Government representatives, (the Queensland Police Service for one).

What are the key changes we understand are being proposed to the Weapons Act 1990?
1. participation requirements for Category C shotguns
2. the fitting of trigger locks to guns already kept in gun safes
3. introduction of a “Hierarchy of Storage Controls” for transportation
4. registration of deactivated category A & B, and Antique & Historical firearms
5. registration of replica handguns
6. “Enlarged discretionary powers” of the Authorised Officer
7. Criminalising the possession of magazines for firearms you don’t own
8. Massive Licensing and Application (Permit To Aquire) cost increases, (Budget stated 126%)

1. What does it mean to have participation requirements for long guns?

This may mean that just as pistol shooters are required to have a minimum number of range attendances each year to maintain their licence, Queensland rifle and shotgun shooters may also be required to regularly attend the range to keep their licence and guns. We understand this requirement will definitely apply to category C shotguns but also suspect Queensland is planning to adopt the NSW approach and apply participation requirements to all sporting and hunting long arms. This should be opposed at all costs. So what if you don’t shoot your rifle or shotgun in a given calendar year? As long as you are doing it lawfully, what right does the Government have to tell you when you should or shouldn’t shoot your air rifle or rifle or shotgun? Why should you have to report your use to them?

2. Will trigger locks be mandatory on all firearms in Queensland?

Yes – We understand the current proposal is for all guns to be fitted with a trigger lock, even when stored in a secure safe. There is no public safety, nor logical reason for this change. Queensland shooters comply with the law and make sure their guns are locked away in a proper safe. What possible benefit does a trigger lock add, other than to increase the burden and cost required to comply with the law? What if a hunter is on a property and sees a wild dog attacking a sheep? In addition to retrieving the gun from a safe and finding the bolt, he will have to remove the trigger lock, locate the ammunition from a separate container, load then shoot. Do you think criminals will fit trigger locks to their illegally possessed, carried and used firearms? This is just another onerous provision to provoke non compliance, to turn everyone into a lawbreaker giving them the excuse to take away our licences.

3. What is the “Hierarchy of Storage Controls” and how did it come about?

This totally new concept may mean that depending on where you and your gun are located, you will have to store your gun in a particular way as designated by the “Hierarchy of Storage Controls”. This change appears to have come about due to a hunting rifle theft from a motor vehicle. The hunter, a married family man, had organized a camping trip. The man packed all the luggage, food and equipment, including hunting rifles, into the car the night before they were due to depart. Unfortunately the car was broken into and stolen. While the vehicle was recovered by the police, the firearms were not. You know what happened? This VICTIM OF CRIME was prosecuted for failing to securely store his hunting firearm. Can you believe this? Is this Australia we live in? Fortunately the prosecution failed and justice prevailed, “The Police had their noses put out of joint”. Now however under the proposed “Hierarchy of Storage Controls” this innocent family man would have been successfully prosecuted.

4. Why register deactivated category A & B, and Antique and Historical firearms?

Many people in Queensland possess broken slug guns , old hunting rifles ,deactivated .303s that dad went to war with. These non-functioning firearms pose absolutely no threat to public safety nor have they posed a threat to public safety since the Weapons Legislation commenced in 1990. In addition, the Returned Services League (RSL) is having its military firearms heritage attacked by persons with a malicious agenda. These persons lodge complaints with the government against organizations who represent those people who have fought for our country, our freedoms, and many times, have paid the ultimate sacrifice. Recently the government seized a wooden machine gun replica and a rusted WWII machine gun from an RSL on the vexatious complaint of a resident pacifist claiming it did not comply with the Act.

5. Why register replica handguns? They are the just toy guns.

We have grave concerns this proposal will result in unnecessary charges being bought against innocent family people. For example, if you and your family were playing with water pistols or cap guns in your street you may be subject to prosecution. Sounds crazy? It is!! We understand the intent behind this proposal is to reduce the incidence of replicas being used to hold up stores or to commit other crimes, however, the question begs itself, “Why on earth would a criminal intent on holding up a store bother to register his or her replica handgun?”

6. What does it mean that the Authorised Officer will have “enlarged discretionary powers”?

We are sure a lot of you have had or heard about other shooters, receiving a call from the Government asking you to justify why you are buying another hunting rifle in the same calibre and with the same action as others in your safe. What is this about? You have jumped through the many licensing hurdles to prove you are a fit and proper person to possess firearms. Now you are facing an inquisition to justify your “genuine need” for another rifle. While we acknowledge this policy came from the Australasian Police Ministers’ Council -Special Firearms Meeting, this policy is unjust and should be abandoned. Licensed shooters should not be interrogated for pursuing a lawful activity. We understand the current proposal provides even more power and discretion to the authorised officer to make subjective decisions about licenses, licence conditions, licence renewals and permit to acquire approvals etc. This regularly leads to the goal posts being moved on a regular basis. Law abiding citizens should be supported in the pursuit of their chosen sport or occupation.

7. Why criminalise the possession of magazines for firearms not currently owned by licensed shooters?

No one is sure where this idea came from. A Magazine is just a packet for ammunition it cannot hurt anyone, it is a box or a tube, are they going to ban boxes and tubes next. Picture the scenario… A person has been a shooter for 20 or so years. Over that time the shooter has bought and sold a number of his or her firearms. If the shooter no longer possesses, for example, a .22 calibre rifle but has a magazine for that gun, he or she may face prosecution and be liable to fines and/or have their Firearms licence suspended for 5 years. Sounds crazy? It is!! How is public safety enhanced by this proposal? We already have people being charged for having an old packet of .22 ammo in the cupbard that used to belong to their father.

8. Why have licensing fees doubled? Gone up by 126 pecent.

No one knows. Regrettably this appears to be a simple and unjustifiable tax levelled on Queensland shooters. From August 1, 2010 a new 5 year firearms licence will cost $210.75 including both the licence and application fee, while a permit to acquire a firearm will cost $30.00. Renewing a firearms licence for five years will cost $131.25 (up from $58.50). These increases will net a windfall of almost $5 million dollars for the police budget with no increase to public safety. This is just another method of reducing the Police work.

What can I do to prevent the Government from enacting these ridiculous proposals?

You must write a letter or send an e-mail to the Police Minister. If you do not, you will lose more rights. You will be 200% more effective if you write to ALL Government Ministers and your local MP. Ministerial contact details are at the bottom of this page. E-mail is more effective than snail-mail/Australia Post these days. E-mail also means you can send the same e-mail to all Government Ministers at the same time. Simply address it as “Dear Ministers”. It is about time the Government realised Queensland’s licensed shooters are sick and tired of being marginalized. We will stand up for ourselves, our sport, our occupation and other lawful uses of firearms. We strongly object to any changes to the Weapons Act 1990.

Why should I write an email or letter?

Letters from individuals are the most effective way to let the Government know how a particular issue is being received by the community. Shooters live in all parts of Queensland. It is important for us to have an effective voice. Do NOT rely on your mate to write. If all 150,000 plus Queensland shooters and their families write to all Government Ministers, our voice will be heard and the Government will back off. Forward this information to at least 10 fellow shooters and encourage them to send it to 10 of their fellow shooters. See how quickly this can snowball?
Most of the above information and this campaign is being run by Law Abiding Firearm Owners (LAFO) is a large group of Queensland shooters who have put sectional and political interests aside to unite against unjust firearms policy. Mr. Paul Feeney is the spokesperson and Principal Program Officer for LAFO. Paul can be contacted, in the first instance via email at PaulF@lafo.com.au or alternatively, via telephone on 0417 699 562.

What are the key points that my letter should include?

* NO participation requirements for long guns of any description.
* NO trigger locks
* NO “Hierarchy of Storage Controls”
* NO registration of deactivated category A & B, and Antique & Historical firearms
* NO registration of replica handguns
* Limit and reduce the discretionary powers of the Authorised Officer
* Do not criminalise the possession of magazines for firearms no longer possessed by a licensee
* NO Licensing cost increases – these are unreasonably high and serve just as another way of a prohibition.

How do I write an email or letter?

Think about how you would discuss this issue with a friend at the pub, church, sporting club or shopping centre. Now just write it down as you said it. Make sure you always include your name and address. That way you will be taken seriously.

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Norinco Model 213 ‘Tokargypt’ 9 shot Semi Auto

The Model 213 original basis was designed by John Moses Browning, the world famous firearm designer. In the late 1920s the Colt /Browning mechanism was redesigned by Russian, Feoder Tokerev, simplified for mass production and chambered in the powerful 7.62×25. It used the Mod 1911 swinging link, short recoil system.
To enable easy maintenance the hammer and lock mechanism can be removed as a single assemble. To improve the Browning feed system the ammunition feed lips are machined into the frame rather than relying on pressed tin. Which on a battlefield where magazines lips do not get the best attention is a great advantage in reliability and makes the magazines cheaper to produce. It was an extremely tough, reliable and powerful pistol and was later modified by Hungary for export to Egypt this was known as the Tokagypt. The pistol differs from the Tokarev in being chambered for the 9mm Parabellum, a fitted safety catch (WHICH SHOULD NEVER BE RELIED UPON) as well as the half cock safety.

As can be seen by the inset photo the barrels and chambers are all chrome plated.
It has a plastic wrap around grip stock, instead of the Tokerev ‘bakelite’ and a finger piece type floor plate on the magazine, which improves your chances of quickly getting it out and getting another one in after someone has rammed one in covered in mud. The M 213 Chinese version of this also has a chrome plated barrel shown in the above photograph. These are brand new unfired but have the usual scratch marks and rough corners as shown in the photographs. As standard the barrels are a millimetre short for club licences so are fitted with a slightly longer barrel. The steel is excellent and once a few surfaces, such as slides, are polished they are a slick an easy pointing pistol. Eight rounds in the magazine.

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Owen Guns Bulletin Edition 40 June 2010

Ron Owen — Sun, 20 Jun 2010 05:02:40 +0000

Welcome to the Fortieth Edition of the Owen Guns Bulletin.

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UNDERSTANDING RELOADING AMMUNITION

Continuing from Edition 39. Which describes the manufacturing process of smokeless propellant.

After fifty hours of continuous boiling, the water is drained off and replaced with fresh water. This is followed by an additional ten hours of boiling, after which the water is drained off. Two fresh water rinses followed, under agitation, to remove final traces of acid.
After being dumped (still mixed with water) the slurry is pumped to another location for beating. This consists of feeding it into specially built machines which chop the individual fibers into even smaller pieces. Beating is a continuous process, the nitrocellulose passing from one machine to another to be chopped successively finer. Continuous inspection insures that the required degree of fineness is achieved.
In addition to reducing individual fibre size, the beaters perform another vital function, that of releasing minute residual quantities of acids trapped in the fibres where washing cannot release them. Once released, these acids are taken up by the water in the slurry.
Unless the nitrocellulose is entirely free from acid when delivered to the powder mill, the end product will deteriorate with time. The degree and speed of deterioration is dependent on the amount of acid left in the nitrocellulose. Beating cannot be slighted.
Once properly beaten, the slurry is pumped to de-watering pots where free water drains away. The smooth, soup like slurry flows by gravity over sloping screens. The screens will pass water, but restrain most of the nitrocellulose fibers. Even so, some of the very fine (and very dangerous, now that its water content is being lowered) pulp passes through the screens. A very sophisticated recovery system returns 100 per cent of this wayward pulp to its parent mass.
After de-watering, the thickened slurry is pumped to yet another building for “poaching.” In this process a tub filled with the pulpy mass has soda ash and water added to neutralize any remaining acidity. The mixture is boiled by means of steam as before, agitated mechanically all the while. The nitrocellulose is then rinsed to remove all traces of the alkaline soda ash and piped directly to blenders nearby.
At this point, low grade S7 and high grade S1 are mixed to produce the precise blend required. (You’ll recall the earlier explanation of the necessity for a blend of two separate grades of nitrocellulose rather than a single grade.) Blending is done by continuous pumping of the two grades into each other, and goes on for several hours until the proper mechanical mixture is obtained. Continuous sampling and testing goes on and, as often as not, additional nitrocellulose of one grade or the other is added to achieve the proper blend. When additional material is added, blending begins anew, so the process can be time consuming.
At this point, the pulpy mass must be stripped of most of its water down to about 30 per cent content. To go below this percentage at this stage would create unacceptably great danger of spontaneous ignition and flash fires. Wringers are loaded with several hundred pounds of slurry and rotated at successively higher speeds. Centrifugal force throws excess water through the drum screen, so the water goes to a recovery system which picks it up. (Like a conventional washing machine, on its spin drying cycle)
When wringing is finished, a non-sparking “plow” scrapes the caked nitrocellulose from the screen. The charge is then dumped into fibre buckets for transfer to the dehydrating press. Its moisture content must be maintained to avoid spontaneous ignition. Among powder men, it
is well known for its “mean” disposition and commands much respect. Despite the most stringent controls it can, and sometimes does, catch fire.
At this point, nitrocellulose is complete and ready to be transformed into powder. It requires only pressing into a block and complete removal of its remaining water. This operation is actually the beginning of powder manufacture. Previous steps were the production of nitrocellulose proper.
The dehydration press forms the nitrocellulose into a cylindrical block, and also removes the water, replacing it with alcohol to keep the material wet enough to prevent spontaneous combustion.
Next Edition 41, Making the Powder.

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Accurate Firearm Design

Speed and use of safety catches.

That does not mean that I believe that a safety catch are safe. It is not. It is only called that for a name, in fact it would be better named the ‘Danger Catch’. It does have some uses, and any firearm that has a ‘half cock’ on the hammer that prevents or blocks the hammer from falling or disconnects the trigger is effectively the same device with a different name. It works in the same way and it has the same dangers. Of course the main danger is the human mind as that malfunctions more often than any mechanical device. Imagine swinging on a the end of a rope on the 30^th floor of a high rise building, and only being held in life by a mechanical catch, a notch. In most cases that is the same danger of being in the vicinity of a firearm when it is loaded and cocked, your life and limb is dangling with the death on the pavement just as surely. However safety catches are a part of firearms and in some instances they do have a use. In the matter of designing actions for rapid fire we must also consider how quickly a first shot can be delivered, starting with the firearm loaded and locked. (Safety catch on or half cock engaged) If we assume that all types have equally excellent stocks, sights, and trigger pulls, this resolves itself into how easily and rapidly the safety lock can be removed and a shot fired. It is debatable whether the shotgun safety on top of the upper tang,(such as on a Browning under and over) or a hammer as seen on Winchester Models 1892 and 1894 lever action rifles is the fastest. With familiarity with either, the safety can be pushed forward or the hammer brought to full cock sub-consciously while the weapon is being thrown to the shoulder and no time consumed.Then in the order of rapidity would probably come the safety in front of the trigger guard on the Ruger Mini-14 rifle, which we used to have , pushing it forward with the front of the index finger, the trigger guard safety on hammerless pump action arms, the pull-back and push forward safety of the finger lever of the Savage Model 1899 rifle, the safeties on the upper right of the receivers of some bolt action arms, such as Parker- Hale, the safety on top of the bolt sleeve of the Winchester Model 70 rifles, and lastly and slowest of all, the completely turn-over safety on the rear of the bolt of the Mauser war rifles. (Which are the most positive) In handguns a revolver can be cocked and fired, (even without using the double action,) faster than can the safety be functioned on an automatic pistol.
Quite as important is that the safety shall be easily adaptable to operation without making any noise whatever, so that the weapon can be made ready instantly without disturbing either game or an enemy, and without making them aware of one’s presence. A shooter learns to do this with all hammer guns by holding back on the trigger first with the forefinger while he brings the hammer to full cock then carefully releases the pressure on the trigger. Then carefully releases the pressure on the hammer and you can feel the hammer being blocked by the notch on the sear plate. This allows the trigger to engage the hammer without a loud “CLICK”. With some safeties it is impossible to move them on and off without an audible “click.” Such a clicking safety absolutely disqualifies any firearm for either hunting, security work or conflict.

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$18.50 plus post.

Thoughts For the Week.

This will only be a short message this week as we had the Gympie Gun Show this weekend and lots of visiting shooters called into see us, while they were in town. Of course I had to go over and have rummage around the tables, look at old books and buy a few magazines and parts. I really enjoy the comradery of being in a room with hundreds of like minded people, but with it comes a sense of loss. As a group we are hopeless, as we are all individualist, we all strive naturally to benefit ourselves, even as competition shooters we compete against our best friends, so working as a group is foreign to our nature. Why should we have to work or act as a group, to me the individual rights should be unassailable. No, the sense of loss occurs to me, because when we are all under threat we are unable to mobilise as a group, (some don’t even read their Club newsletters) our apathy dooms us to extinction. We are like dinosaurs on borrowed time. Unlike our opponents which act in unison like a pack of hyena’s waiting to chew on the bones of our wounded.
The Queensland budget was imposed on us on June 8^th increasing fees and charges for shooters of 126 percent, yes that’s over double for your Licence Fee, Application Fee, Permit to Acquire Fee. Ninety-Nine percent of shooters will not be aware of it until they are forced to pay it, hundreds will take their firearms down the local gunshop to sell or hand over their treasured possessions, some handed down for generations. Many will be disappointed as many gunshops will have closed down due to two reasons.
One, smaller dealers will not have enough sales to generate profit for the licence fee, and,
Two the reduction in new shooters and Permits to Acquire will remove many of the larger Dealers that are existing on overdrafts and paying large rent.
Of course, when those thousands of shooters go to a gun show they may tell them when the next gun show is, “book your tables now”, sort of thing, but would never contemplate to inform the shooters, that a further massive imposition is being made on their way of life. Even when they find out, many will believe the propaganda that the state is broke and needs the money, when the reality is that the police gave the politicians an ultimatum either scrap registration for long arms, as the huge staff and resources could not cope with the ever expanding register, or reduce the amount of shooters and firearms to place on that register. The politicians not wanting to lose control over a civilian power chose the latter.
Instead of the hundreds of thousands of shooters clamouring at their politicians front door, demanding that they speak up against this crime, they are oblivious, they will suffer in silence, they won’t be at shows or a shoots with hundreds of others sharing the same problem they will have to make the hard choices when a renewal comes around on their own. Which do they give up? The public servants know that if they posted out everyone renewal at the same time, that a huge cross section of the community would get enraged and mobilize against them but when they send them out on every individuals birthday the impact is minimised. Each shooter will suffer in silence and the public servants win again. ‘Control’ to them is an art form.

Every other sport is encouraged as a diversion, stops the plebs thinking, stops them from getting involved in politics. Our sport, just about the safest sport, is coerced with threats and menace, our sport where we are forced by legislation to be members of clubs have to suffer further licence requirements from government which no other sporting body would suffer but again it is ‘divide and conquer’. Each little club comes under government attack, either from the local council, state police, or one of the thousand and one government departments formed to control our daily life, alone.
Most of the large clubs are part of the problem not the solution. They are dependent on government grants that pay for the full time employment of its directors, they are dependent on the government for its range lease, they are dependent on the government for its seat on the consultive committee which is the excuse the government uses on the introduction of its terror legislation that they consulted with the prime bodies. Yes, the bodies are primed for silence. Speak out about impending legislation and the police will drop them from the list of consultative bodies.
Was the USSR worse? Was the Gestapo worse? If they were, it would only be an argument of degrees not moral standards. Who is to blame? It is ourselves, our apathy allows it to happen, the Enemy is Within.

6×40 World Class Tasco

Tasco is a leading name in the optical industry for eons, Tasco’s World Class Scope has been an industry standard since the 1980s it is the scope that many others are judged against and found lacking. The World Class due to its World Class forever Guarantee is rarely used we have sold thousands of them and I have been dealing with Tasco since 1975. The vision is quality, the adjustments are precision and the cross hairs are the rights sized for target or hunting. They were selling for $188. Now Only a very special

$125.

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Operators Manual for the Barrett M468 rifle in 6.8 x 43 mm, Assemble Dis-Assemble Maintenance Exploded Diagrams General Data,
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Owen Guns Bulletin Edtion 43 August 2010

STOP PRESS Classified Guns for Sale – ADVERTISE YOUR GUNs HERE. New Site Just Opened, but selling guns so fast than we cannot photograph them and get them up there quick enough. We need yours to sell on Electronic Classifieds!

Bushnell Yardage Pro Range Finder

$362. plus post.

Norinco Model 213 ‘Tokargypt’ 9 shot Semi Auto

$295 each.

Bushnell Compact Spotting Scope 12–36 x 50

$205 plus post.

Armed Under & Over 12 gauge $775.

$775.

Electronic Ear Muffs

$75.50 plus post.

The Australian International Arms M10 Rifles.

from $1300 to $1490. phone for more details phone 07 54 825070. Tasco 8 x 21 Compact Binoculars,

$20. plus post Remington Genesis 1000 fps.

$400. With 3–9×40 Variable Centrepoint Air Rifle Scope and Mounts. $300 without. plus freight. Accurate Firearm Design

P 11 EDI-T Hunter Shooting Torch, $79.plus post.

Mount is $47.00 and Trophy 4×32 scope is $42.00 plus post. THOUGHT s FOR THE WEEK .Elections Are Just Their Entertainment.

Tasco 4x 32 Silver Antler Rifle Scope

$50. plus post

$42. each plus post.

The Range Officer Handbook

Chrony Chronographs measure the velocity of your ammunition.

$198. plus post.

Leupold Rifle Scopes 3–9×40 $295. Best Prices in Australia

UNDERSTANDING RELOADING AMMUNITION

MAKING POWDER.

Lee Breech Lock Challenger Reloading Kit

All for $199. plus freight.

FREE FOR ELECTRONIC DOWNLOAD

BAIT THROWERS

$40. Steel Balls $1.00 for 30, plus post.

Owen Guns Bulletin Edition 42 August 2010

STOP PRESS Classified Guns for Sale – ADVERTISE YOUR GUNs HERE. New Site Just Opened, but selling guns so fast than we cannot photograph them and get them up there quick enough. We need yours to sell on Electronic Classifieds!

Thompson TC Venture, Guaranteed 1 minute of angle, Bolt Action Rifles.

$950. plus freight.

Electronic Ear Muffs

Slimline Electronic Ear Muffs

$75.50 plus post.

MARLIN XS7 Bolt Action Centre Fire Rifle.

$699. plus post.

Not I pods but Bipods by Remington

$79.plus post

Accurate Firearm Design

P 4 EDI-T Head Hunter Shooting Torch, $79.plus post.

Tasco 3–9 x 40 Varibale World Class Riflescope $117.

Special $117.00 plus postage Winchester Wildcat.

$375. plus postage.

Thought For The Week.

Put Green,Labour Liberal LAST

Put Green,Labour Liberal LAST

Gun Books Make Great Presents, with years of use and enjoyment.

$49. plus $10 all over Australia and even overseas to Tasmania.

The Range Officer Handbook

$75 for a Certified Numbered Book Signed by the author (state who you would like it dedicated to) plus $10 postage Australia wide.

Leupold Rifle Scopes 3–9×40 $295. Best Prices in Australia

Remington Genesis 1000 fps.

UNDERSTANDING RELOADING AMMUNITION

FREE FOR ELECTRONIC DOWNLOAD

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HORNADY CARTRIDGE CASE CLEANER

$150 plus post.

BAIT THROWERS

Owen Guns Bulletin Edition 41 July 2010

STOP PRESS

Classified Guns for Sale – ADVERTISE YOUR GUNs HERE. New Site Just Opened, but selling guns so fast than we cannot photograph them and get them up there quick enough. We need your to sell on Electronic Classifieds!

P 4 EDI-T head Hunter Shooting Torch, $79.plus post.

Swiss Army Tool Kit $135. plus post

Armed Under & Over 12 gauge $775.

$775. Silver Receiver $799. Winchester Wildcat. Ten shot .22 long Rifle Bolt Action.

$375. plus postage. Any Inquiries on any products phone 07 54824099 or 07 54825070 or email owenguns@spiderweb.com.au

Nick Harvey’s Practical Reloading Manual

$49. plus $10 all over Australia and even overseas to Tasmania.

The Range Officer Handbook

$75 for a Certified Numbered Book Signed by the author

CALL TO ACTION

CALL TO ARMS, TAKE ATTENTION ON THIS, IMMEDIATE ACTION IS NEEDED.

The Free External Ballistics Calculator NEW VERSION for all Components not Brand Specific.

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Classified Guns for Sale – ADVERTISE YOUR GUNs HERE. New Site Just Opened, but selling guns so fast than we cannot photograph them and get them up there quick enough. We need yours to sell on Electronic Classifieds!

from $1300 to $1490. phone for more details phone 07 54 825070.

Tasco 8 x 21 Compact Binoculars,

$20. plus post

Remington Genesis 1000 fps.

$400. With 3–9×40 Variable Centrepoint Air Rifle Scope and Mounts. $300 without. plus freight.

Accurate Firearm Design

Mount is $47.00 and Trophy 4×32 scope is $42.00 plus post.

THOUGHT s FOR THE WEEK .
Elections Are Just Their Entertainment.

STOP PRESS

Classified Guns for Sale – ADVERTISE YOUR GUNs HERE. New Site Just Opened, but selling guns so fast than we cannot photograph them and get them up there quick enough. We need yours to sell on
Electronic Classifieds!

Special $117.00 plus postage

Winchester Wildcat.

Classified Guns for Sale – ADVERTISE YOUR GUNs HERE. New Site Just Opened, but selling guns so fast than we cannot photograph them and get them up there quick enough. We need your to sell on
Electronic Classifieds!

$775. Silver Receiver $799.

Winchester Wildcat. Ten shot .22 long Rifle Bolt Action.

$375. plus postage.

Any Inquiries on any products phone 07 54824099 or 07 54825070 or email owenguns@spiderweb.com.au

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Scope Guards Butler Creek.

Classified Guns for Sale – ADVERTISE YOUR GUNs HERE. New Site Just Opened, but selling guns so fast than we cannot photograph them and get them up there quick enough. We need yours to sell on
Electronic Classifieds!

$295. Best Prices in Australia

The Marlin Model 925 5 shot Bolt Action Rifle.

Without Scope and Mounts $300. With Centrepoint Scope and Mounts $400.

Sling Shots

An Extra benifitit includes a Lee Auto Primer all for $199. plus freight.

Chrony Chronographs measure the velocity of your ammunition.

$995 plus freight.

Barska 3–12x 50 Rifle Scopes

$18.50 plus post.

Thoughts For the Week.