Thread: BUSH HUNTING TIPS "Cure for bush nettle"

the stingy thing all growed up

Nasty stuff alright, causes severe illness and death even:

"On Boxing Day 1961 two young men hunting in the Ruahine Range stumbled through a patch of tree nettle and received a number of stings on their limbs. Within an hour one of them had difficulty in walking and breathing, and then lost his sight. He died five hours later in hospital. His friend had similar symptoms, but recovered. Although this is the only fatal incident on record, a number of people have been very ill for two to three days after being stung."

Also:

http://www.teara.govt.nz/files/d-9773-enz.pdf

When up on that other island I was chuckling to my self how hungry the sika are to browse the nettle as much as they had where we were.
The stems had been chewed right back.
Thinking it was safe I pushed thru it to get access to a small clearing. A deer had the last laugh, it must have caught a branch up as it fed thru it.
That branch once freed as I moved thru the thicket smacked me right between the eyes.
It had its full compliment of spines on it that's for sure.
It was going to ruin my day until I found a doc plant and scrubbed my mellon with it.
Wasn't instant relief but it didn't bother me much afterward unless I touched where I was zapped.
Never heard the fern shute trick but doc leaf will help.

Sent from my SM-G900F using Tapatalk

Whats the Doc plant R93? Got a pic, or another name?

Piss on it helps too.
We don't have ongaonga in the south but a less potent version?

Sent from my GT-S5360T using Tapatalk 2

Originally Posted by Rusky

Whats the Doc plant R93? Got a pic, or another name?

Originally Posted by Pengy

Attachment 28577

Yep that is the stuff Pengy. Horses turn good pasture into paddocks full of it.

Originally Posted by Rushy

Yep that is the stuff Pengy. Horses turn good pasture into paddocks full of it.

Geez u make some bullshit up @Rushy..."paddocks full of dock" is caused by farmers failing to spray weeds that horses don't eat in a paddock usually too small to accommodate them and have been fed hay contaminated with dock seed from paddocks that farmers failed to clear of weeds before baleing.

Originally Posted by R93

When up on that other island I was chuckling to my self how hungry the sika are to browse the nettle as much as they had where we were.
The stems had been chewed right back.
Thinking it was safe I pushed thru it to get access to a small clearing. A deer had the last laugh, it must have caught a branch up as it fed thru it.
That branch once freed as I moved thru the thicket smacked me right between the eyes.
It had its full compliment of spines on it that's for sure.
It was going to ruin my day until I found a doc plant and scrubbed my mellon with it.
Wasn't instant relief but it didn't bother me much afterward unless I touched where I was zapped.
Never heard the fern shute trick but doc leaf will help.

Sent from my SM-G900F using Tapatalk

I was always taught to singe the dock and then crush it to get the juice out and rub on. An old maori fella told me that about 40 years ago, works well

Funny how some things cross the world.
It is very common practice in England to use Dock leaves to rub on nettle stings for relief. Different nettle and most likely different Dock though.
I have flashbacks to about age 6 when I crashed by pushbike into a huge patch of nettles on a campsite, while wearing only a pair of shorts.

Wairoa?

Just been thru there twice this week. No big shiny thing in the sky tho, was after 9pm

Lived there for 6 years - moved away when I was 8.
Older brother moved back there for a while and was running the Deluxe Ford parts department before he headed to Aussie...

Originally Posted by Spook

Geez u make some bullshit up @Rushy..."paddocks full of dock" is caused by farmers failing to spray weeds that horses don't eat in a paddock usually too small to accommodate them and have been fed hay contaminated with dock seed from paddocks that farmers failed to clear of weeds before baleing.

Same result Spook. Put a horse in a paddock know and pop there's a dock plant.

If I haven't been bush for a while I might get close or a brush on the hand. But after that, can spot the bush well before getting near it. Sort of like an inbuilt fear

May try wot vc suggested, about pissing on your affected parts next time. Only thing with that is during the roar u may become the hunted.

Originally Posted by Chop3r

I was always taught to singe the dock and then crush it to get the juice out and rub on. An old maori fella told me that about 40 years ago, works well

Will try that if there is a next time

Sent from my SM-G900F using Tapatalk