Thread: First deer

ANOTHER KNIFE STORY
Back to the previous post about the older than me Danish guy that took me under his wing hunting wise . We had stopped on the Te Anau to Milford road to walk into the Greenstone for a
fallow deer and had just got to the first climb before the Key Summit and met 2 guys coming out that told us they had shot 4 but only taken one . Needless to say there was words spoken .
Anyway we had left our start late in the day and decided to spend the night in the Lake Howden hut . When we got to the hut after dark and there was 1/2 dozen trampers in the hut with a couple
of bottles of captain Morgan no problem with that . We started a bit of a cookup for tea and the fire was going good for once when these silly buggers started throwing rum on the fire for a bit of fun .
Now I can't spell my old mates name but it's pronounced K . He looked a bit like Hagar The Horrible but a bit taller with a big white beard and dinner plate sized hands and a smile always a smile from ear to ear no matter what . I suppose some could call it an Assassin's smile . Well K had had enough bullshit after some of the rum had got on his socks drying by the fire . As some of you will know from a previous story K was Danish and a young teenager when the Germans invaded Denmark .
Anyway K had had enough of the bullshit and proceeded to pull a apple out of his pack , and then came the knife , about 6'' long with a wee silver button on the side of the handle . Old mate stands up and slams his knife on the table the knife blade
shoots out the end not side opening , dagger stile razer sharp both sides . The trampers stopped talking and there was deadly silence with 6 mouths hanging open . Now flick knifes where very rear in NZ and these trampers started to ask some questions
and K told them that he got it during the war from a German that didn't need it anymore , still smiling ear to ear . 6 now sober trampers went strat to bed and where gone before we where up in the morning . Next morning we high tailed it down past lake McKellar to the Greenstone boned
out the 3 deer and then back out to the Milford road and home .
Trampers now . have I got a story about them , no disrespect to the majority .