Moving to Australia

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You do get around :D Seen your posts on AR.

Do you have any choice in the matter, or do you go where they need to put you?

Good luck with your move..... :flags-australia:

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I think I can guess where your going, don't forget to use Jackie Chan's chin up bars :D
Buy a flash car duty free, and maybe a Blaser or too, then you can sell me the Blaser cheap :whistle:
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I have a Brother in Law that built his own steel sail boat.

He has sailed it all over the World.

Bar NONE, he says the Aussies are the greatest, they love Americans, and treat him like he is the King of the World.

I did some training of an Aussie Police Officer in one of my schools "Once Upon a Time", and I found him to be a Very Fine Fella.

I would like to go on a "Shooting Trip" to the "Land Down Under" some day.

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D99 wrote:Still moving to Australia in December. Going to be in Canberra area for 3 years.

Looking forward to it!
Canberra?

Porn Pot and Pyrotechnics.

Except now they banned pyrotechnics :doh:

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mchughcb wrote:
D99 wrote:Still moving to Australia in December. Going to be in Canberra area for 3 years.

Looking forward to it!
Canberra?

Porn Pot and Pyrotechnics.

Except now they banned pyrotechnics :doh:
You forgot the Hookers, there are no shortage and there legal too :dance:
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If you can export your own guns without giving money to the State Dept, bring them out (or have a relative bring them over) after you've obtained your ACT Licence.

They'll have to be registered by a dealer here (so the dealer & customs may have them for a few weeks - you cant leave the airport with them even if you have the Australian import permit) BUT Blasers etc are much cheaper in the US, and (as you may be noticing on AHN) most Australians have pisspoor taste in firearms so it take months to get hold of anything good here anyway

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D99 wrote:I noticed, I'll have to make due with what I can get.

3 years unless I can pick up another job, down there at the end.

Wife said I can't try the hookers, and I am not interested in the pot. So I'll have to find something else to fun.

Look forward to meeting you all.
I see there was no veto on the porn ;)
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I would like to go there and shoot some of their BIG bovines, wild donkeys and "Roos. :D

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Re: Moving to Australia

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Well I'm sure that we can find something to entertain you anyway :D
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Re: Moving to Australia

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Quote: "...most Aussies have pisspoor taste in firearms anyway...." Perhaps so, but there are a number of them on the Marlin Owners forum. Just because my ten Marlin levers did not cost as much as my one Blaser does not detract from their intrinsic worth. maybe those of us with Blasers, higher grade Brownings and Berettas, and other fine arms get a little snobish at times. I know I have been guilty, or so I have been told. My dad had one centerfire rifle-a336C in .30-30. He wasn't a big game hunter but any coyote that showed his hide around Dad's stock farm needed to give his ill intentions to his compadres, because his a$$ was Dad's. There are those of us who like stuff, and there are those who like tools. Jack

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Re: Moving to Australia

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D99 wrote:10 days and counting!

Pretty excited.

Probably just going to bring my Steyr 308, and buy a RWS Titan in 6mm BR and 223.
Ah come on, bring a Blaser :doh: you know you want to :dance:
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SPEEDY wrote:
D99 wrote:10 days and counting!

Pretty excited.

Probably just going to bring my Steyr 308, and buy a RWS Titan in 6mm BR and 223.
Ah come on, bring a Blaser :doh: you know you want to :dance:
Yeah, bring a D99, and double the current number in the country :P

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Re: Moving to Australia

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D99

I think going to Australia for 3 years would be a lot of fun.
From what I have read here on BlaserBuds I think if I was going I would take 2 R 93's, both synthentic.
I would take a Tracker barrel in 308, and a Tracker barrel in 375 H&H.
Both would have a Doctor Optic, and I have a S&B 1.5 to 6x42 on the 308 and a 2.5Kahles and a 1.5to6x42 Swarovski on the 335 H&H.

I would have to do some research to see if I would need a 223 barrel???

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Yep I haven't regretted buying mine, we do a lot of spotlight for small game so there well worth having.
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Re: Moving to Australia

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Just in time for summer or so, well the fishings good and the game have breed up, so come on over I'm sure a few of us can set you up to knock some down :D
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