So, it's a beautiful January day, thank you very much Steve for letting us use
use the range. No problem, and we're here getting ready for our upcoming wild boar
hunt in Hungary, which is only a few days away.
Looking forward to it. Yeah, very exciting. But, we're not prepared, we're used to
kind of wilderness environments, shooting at 300 yards at giant moose and grizzly
bear and all that sort of thing. But, of course wild boar hunting in Hungary is
gonna be much more ballistic, fast-moving animals coming through the bushes
hopefully we're gonna get onto him but that means we're gonna need a slightly
different style of equipment. Now, in front of us we've got three options that
Wilds' R8 professional success in 300 Win Mag.
That's topped with a Hawke Frontier 1x6 by 24. Something slightly different Howa
1500 in 308 with a GRS Berserk Stock and a Hawke Reflex red dot sight of
course it's 308 which is not a magnum caliber but I'm gonna be shooting 185
grain Lapua mega through that should do the job say they pack a bit of a punch
and then my Sauer 404 in 338 mag topped with a Hawke Endurance 1x4
by 24. All low mag, all fairly maneuverable and
lightweight so hopefully we should be able to swing through and pick off the
shots and the animals are looking at. I would have thought so, they're very pointable rifles aren't they?
Beautiful, we've used them for a long time now so yeah we're very confident
with each of these rifles with different scope setups very carefully ammunition
so we need to do now really get them zeroed up fire a few shots through them
and we can go and have a look in a little bit more detail about each of the
rifle scope combinations and why we've picked out what we have so those we
better get to it let's get some rounds downrange.
This is my Blazer R8 Professional in 300 Win Mag. She's a beautiful rifle I've
used her all over the world I've used in Alaska, deer stalking in Highlands and
now I'm gonna take it wild boar hunting. So, I've taken off my normal piece of
glass and we've fitted this Hawke Frontier 31x6 by 24. She's absolutely
packed with features well I'll just run you through them now. We have a 6 mag
ratio adjusted with this high torque zoom ring. We've got a 21 layer
multi coated optics for ultimate clarity which will drag in every little bit of
light when it starts going dusk it's also made from a 30 mil piece aluminium
tube for superior strength when you're using it with the Magnum calibers. We've
also got along that eye relief so when you're using it with your Magnum
calibers we've got a nice long gap there between bridge of my nose and the last
thing we want is that broken again. We've also got the 1/10 mrad adjustable
turrets. In here we've got an illuminated reticle 1 to 6 settings which gives you
all the levels of brightness that you're ever going to need and she's in a real
compact package, she's 265 millimeters and only weighs 560 grams.
So here we have my Sauer 404 in 338 Win Mag. Now, I'm very familiar this rifle I
used it in Alaska and now it's gonna come wild boar hunting with us in
Hungary. I'm pretty sure the round is big enough if it can bring down moose it can
bring down wild boar, but also I've got to put the bullet in the right place and
for that job we have this Hawke Endurance 1x4 by 24 this is one of the new
wide-angle models which has a 20% greater field of view. So, there's an 18
layer optical coating system for maximum light transmission this high-torque
grippy no magnification ring fast focus I bail for adjusting eye relief and it
also has a good long high clearance views on Magnum rifles. Target style
judgment turrets with 1/2 MOA adjustments covered by these dust caps.
There's a laser etched reticle and this is an L4A for a dot style reticle and it's
illuminated in red with six settings operated by the rheostat external here
on the saddle and it's all in a pretty compact chassis it's 282 millimeters
long and 493 grams so nice compact lightweight and manoeuvrable.
So, here we have the new addition to the gang there's certainly no addition for
me for wild boar shooting this is a Howa 1500 and 308 Winchester it's got a
heavy varmint barrel that I've had cut down to 18 inches fitted with a
moderator for today because we're on the range and it helps with the recoil and
also trying to keep the noise down a little bit.
With the heavy barrel the moderator shouldn't make too much difference in
terms of point of aim but was to get out onto the range tomorrow and shooting a
ballistic driven target so we can adjust it as necessary. That's fitted with a GRS
Berzerk stock this is one of my favourite stocks to shoot it's got a lovely ergonomic
grip rubber inserts to the four end into the pistol grip here multi
adjustable butt pad and cheek piece here so you can get the rifle to fit you
perfectly. It's also very handy when you're shooting the red dot sight that
we have here which is a Hawke Reflex red dot sights and at just 54 grams it's
probably the lightest sighting system I've ever used. So, I have used red dot
sights before but in a slightly different configuration I have to say
I'm very impressed with this package. It's very, very lightweight 25 layer
optical coating so there's a nice clear slight picture through the red dot it's
a three-minute Vangel red dot so it's actually quite a fine dot when it's on
the target which aids for target acquisition and making sure you've got
the correct aim point. Very easy to adjust once you've undone the locking
screws at the back here the windage and elevation can be adjusted with a
screwdriver and it's very precise in comparison to a crosshair with
magnification it obscures quite a lot of the target but it consistently puts the
rifle back on the same point of aim one of the great things about red dot sights
when you're shooting ballistically is you can acquire the target with your
eyes bring the rifle up to bear there's no change in magnification put the red
dot just on front of the animal's nose and you can pull it down so in terms of
the consistency and how old its shooting I'm extremely impressed so far.
So, there we have it another very successful afternoon on the range three
rifles all zeroed perfect where they need to be so we know that the rifles
and the ammunition and the scopes are all in tune.
Now, comes the dodgy bit yeah it's the guys so heading off next to and Andrew
Venables at WMS firearms training in Wales he has a running board target set up to
teach the basics of ballistic shooting shooting and moving targets you're
positioning where to aim judging distance speed and all those sorts of
things and hopefully well get it off to Pat like we did before
yeah so a pretty exciting yeah it's very exciting to go there and it's a very
very good instructor we've been there numerous times before and we've always
come back learning. He's good. Well, I learn every day luckily Wildey,
but when you're around somebody like Andrew who's forgotten more about
shooting and marksmanship skills and I think we'll ever know yeah then it's
handy to have a guy like that on your team so once again good shooting mate
been a pleasure yeah good fun and I can have fun stuff.