Thread: .222 turning back the clock

One or two oldies..all include the .222 nzfs days on Thar..early 70's

Should've said..1.White Bull Mt Cook region early 70's
2.Wandering the high ground Monarch .222
3 Coupla ok's...... Hopkins area.Brno Fox.
4 An ol mate , BSA Hunter .222
5 Young doinit..BSA Monarch

@doinit awesome ! That’s what the forums about. Keep those pics coming. Is that a sako vixen ?

Originally Posted by Nathan F

@doinit awesome ! That’s what the forums about. Keep those pics coming. Is that a sako vixen ?

Na Nathan one Brno and then BSA's.

Originally Posted by doinit

Na Nathan one Brno and then BSA's.

Very cool

Thought this might help.

A couple more on the controversial one lol.
1.. Old packhorse ,couple of Parker Hale .222's..Blue Mts.
2..Youngish Bull shot up the Matukituki ,first Thar I'd ever seen in there at the time..Monarch .222
3..Not so old packhorse,Blue Mts,.222 Monarch.
4..Bunny hunter set up for those times,early 10-22 & Monarck .222

Originally Posted by doinit

A couple more on the controversial one lol.
1.. Old packhorse ,couple of Parker Hale .222's..Blue Mts.
2..Youngish Bull shot up the Matukituki ,first Thar I'd ever seen in there at the time..Monarch .222
3..Not so old packhorse,Blue Mts,.222 Monarch.
4..Bunny hunter set up for those times,early 10-22 & Monarck .222

Thats good shit. Were you meat hunting for the trade in the Blue Mnts? No ears?

Originally Posted by Tahr

Thats good shit. Were you meat hunting for the trade in the Blue Mnts? No ears?

Myself and a couple of others thrashed the place literally, we had taken leave from the Wallaby Board at the time as it hit the 1$ per pound.
No ears....everything went at the chiller,was some crappy shot stuff weighed in at times although we tried for clean shot as a rule.
We moved up to reds after several Months,,mad times lol.

We shacked up here for some time..cool old hut.
Showin off after an early morn shoot,coupla mates.

The good ole days

Choice old time pics, those were the days alright , will never be like that again to much bullshit to put up with these days.

Later in my time Consolidated Traders would only take deer if they had their ears on. Our buyer always had some spare sets of ears we could put on with a safety pin if for some reason the carcass was missing them. I remember one great big stag was an escapee and he had a tag and a tag slit (the old original Allflex tags made a slit, not a hole) in his ear so the buyer whipped his ears off for me and pinned a new clean set on. Rubbed on a bit of mud and the job was done

I can see that from the mutton chops in one of the above pics nice to see these old pics bit of real history

Three from three. Was going away for three nights but had more than enough meat after two