SFW (Social Forum Weekend)

Weather forecast for next weekend in Taumaranuie is looking perfect 👌🏻

Edited by -Ec - 13 Mar 2026 at 9:07pm

Hi Folks,
We are a week away.
The farm owners have asked me how many people we are expecting, so they know how many rooms to make up but I dont quite know...?
We have had interest from a few folks. Whos still keen?
I'll definatly be going down on Friday 20th with my son and staying till Monday 23rd.

This is open to anyone on the forum, all are welcome. Accommodation is $35/night for a dorm bed with shared bathroom and kitchen, or $100/night for a cabin that sleeps 2 and uses the same shared bathrooms and kitchen.
You dont need to stay the whole weekend, if you can only make a night or two thats great, come along.
Kitchen has a stove, microwave, crockery and cutlery, fridges and instant hot water.

If you are planning on coming along please drop me a text to let me know numbers, my number is oh too one, 6three 9three 76. Will also share the exact address/location of the farm if you dont know where it is already.

If anyone uses whatsapp you'll know how easy it is to communicate with whatsapp. I'll start a group to keep everyone informed and up to date (should have done this a month ago).

Also looking for a few bags of fire wood if you have any, and bring along a camping chair to sit around the fire.
Bring plinking targets too   

Thanks,
Pete.

Ive been thinking about how to set up the plinking courses, and which of my air rifles I'm going to take....

Wish I could bring them all along but need to be realistic with packing space, so I think i'm going to bring two (maybe 3).
Thinking I'll choose two that are almost complete opposites of each other.

One a newish pcp, one a 30 year old springer.
One sub 12FPE, one high(ish) FPE
One with open sights, one with a digital scope...
One magazine fed, one single shot...
One synthetic stock, one with beautiful wood.

Shoot the same plinking course with both, and love every second with each!

Need to make a list of things to pack, and see who is able to bring what, like fire wood, and plinking spinners.

I'll be bringing a mobile shooting table and chair which we can leave set up for the whole weekend, for anyone needing to do any bench work, zeroing etc.
I'll also bring along about 6 plinking spinners and a 5 inch hanging gong we can use for a 100m shoot.
Will also bring my dive bottle for anyone needing air top ups (will be around 200bar) - bring your own connectors if you have specific fittings.

To set up a decent course we'll need more than 6 spinners, whos got some they can bring along?
Maybe post some pics of what you've got so we can get an idea of what we've got to work with.

Ive also got quite a few tins of H&N pellets I've never used, might bring them along for swaps or put them up as a prize for the best 100m shot, or best left handed shot or something...

what days are you going to be there? we keen but the misses may not be able to do the Saturday

Right folks, 2 months and 2 weeks till the forums social weekend...

All are welcome
We've picked a "central" venue just outside of Tamaranuie, pretty much in the middle of North Island, and we'll have the whole farm, paddocks, rivers, bush, waterfall and heaps of space all to ourselves to plink and shoot all weekend long.

If you are planning on coming along and have a spare seat in your vehicle, let others know, maybe you can share the travel costs and get one more forum member to come along.

The idea is to have a low cost, fun weekend shooting our air rifles, plinking, maybe if we are lucky a little pest control for the land owners, and just enjoying being out doors and the company of like minded air rifle and out door enthusiasts.

The plan is to set up plinking courses and fun challenges that we can shoot as much as we want each day, have a bit of a camp fire sit around under the stars each night, lots of discussions and info sharing, discussions on pellets, rifles, techniques, equipment etc and share a memorable hunting story or two.

Springers, co2, pumpers, pcp's, home builds, air pistols, your favorite air rifle, bring em all along.

The weekend is open to anyone on this forum, and although it seems to be mostly guys here (apologies to any ladies if I've got that wrong), if anyone would like to bring along a partner or a kid who's equally enthusiastic about air rifles/plinking or hunting, I think that would be great and they are most welcome.

If you are interested in attending or would like to join us for the weekend, please let me know so I've got a general idea of numbers.

Many thanks,
Pete.