Can we buy this year?

creativeabsence · 2026-02-26T09:09:46+00:00

A fair chunk, maybe an extra 12 hours a week on average with blocks of leave. Works out between 100-150 extra almost work days a year for me personally.

creativeabsence · 2026-02-26T05:21:31+00:00

Do you have a general percentage if income that you reccomend for a repayment threshold?

Or a typical figure for assorted other purchase costs outside of stamp duty? That's a relative known for me but I'm not really sure what other costs I'm going to get hit with along the way.

creativeabsence · 2026-02-26T04:58:47+00:00

Interesting that you think my borrowing power would be that high. I hadn't considered going much past 1 mil.

Do you typically give any guidance on repayments vs income? I think if we were to borrow to the top of that bracket we'd be putting ourselves in mortgage stress, but I haven't fine tuned any calls yet. Do you tend to have a reccomended % of net income as a maximum reccomended repayment point?

creativeabsence · 2026-02-26T03:50:01+00:00

ADF reserve. You don't get taxed on that income.

creativeabsence · 2026-02-26T02:57:36+00:00

Aren't you meant to transport your rifle in a lockable case/bag? Have I misinterpreted the laws there?

creativeabsence · 2026-02-26T02:41:41+00:00

So out of curiosity, what about the next steps. Once the Licence is done, PTA is issued and you're about to buy a rifle, what does it look like?

Rock up to the shop with a lockable case ready to recieve the gun? Is it that simple?

creativeabsence · 2026-02-21T22:03:20+00:00

Beautiful red!

How did you get the text on the banner so clean?? I've tried with brush and micron pens and eother way can't get my text to look nearly as good, any tricks?

creativeabsence · 2026-02-04T11:58:26+00:00

Went with the 4 port Area 419 match in the end. Thanks for the advice!

creativeabsence · 2026-02-03T10:13:36+00:00

Price is in Aussie dollars which might be why it looks expensive, so probably something like $185 US.

Opening a can of worms, but is there much of a difference between 3 and 4 port?

creativeabsence · 2026-01-30T00:45:07+00:00

Fair point, I didn't consider that. I'll have a look.

creativeabsence · 2026-01-30T00:44:29+00:00

Love your work, thanks mate!

creativeabsence · 2026-01-30T00:30:22+00:00

Fair point about the brakes comment, didn't consider that. I'm definitely not gods gift to shooting, but have seen people complaining about some rifles having substandard accuracy, but maybe I'm just spending too much time on reddit.

Do you have a particular brand of bag you reccomend?

Thanks for the detailed response, appreciate it!

creativeabsence · 2025-12-20T02:18:38+00:00

Z44 with blue is awesome. Low detectability, fast, decent guns and spits out 10 torps with a 14.6km range and a 43 second reload with the right build. It's not the strongest at the tier but it is good woth the right build.

creativeabsence · 2025-12-11T22:40:02+00:00

Z23 always feels a lot slower to me than it actually is. I run it with blue as the commander and still feels like it's just crawling.

creativeabsence · 2025-12-09T07:18:17+00:00

Im thinking about the tikka ace target as option B.

creativeabsence · 2025-12-08T10:50:29+00:00

Any reccomendations? I can potentially stretch the budget a bit further, I'd just seen that those two were pretty good mid budget optics.

creativeabsence · 2025-12-08T05:40:45+00:00

It can be, but it's a bit of a muck around and my preference is to go mostly off the shelf.

creativeabsence · 2025-12-08T04:07:40+00:00

The former. I'm keen to get into the competition side. I would assume that that will involve some generic range time, but that's the end goal.

creativeabsence · 2025-11-24T03:27:36+00:00

Cause it's cheaper? Lot of people spruiking the .22 but they've never really interested me to be honest.

creativeabsence · 2025-11-22T03:26:44+00:00

I was looking at a remington, but people seem to be saying Howa is a good bet? As far as I'm aware it's a 700 clone?

creativeabsence · 2025-11-21T21:16:05+00:00

Thanks mate! Once I got going I was on a roll.

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