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Thread: BUSH HUNTING TIPS "Cure for bush nettle"

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    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."

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

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    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.

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

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

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    Quote Originally Posted by Rusky View Post
    Whats the Doc plant R93? Got a pic, or another name?
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    Quote Originally Posted by Pengy View Post
    Yep that is the stuff Pengy. Horses turn good pasture into paddocks full of it.
    It takes 43 muscle's to frown and 17 to smile, but only 3 for proper trigger pull.
    What more do we need? If we are above ground and breathing the rest is up to us!
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    Quote Originally Posted by Rushy View Post
    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.
    Which is worse, ignorance or apathy...I don't know and don't care.

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    Quote Originally Posted by R93 View Post
    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.

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    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

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    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.
    Forgotmaboltagain+1

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    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...
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    Quote Originally Posted by Spook View Post
    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.
    It takes 43 muscle's to frown and 17 to smile, but only 3 for proper trigger pull.
    What more do we need? If we are above ground and breathing the rest is up to us!
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    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

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    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.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Chop3r View Post
    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

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