Thread: The good old days ?

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Originally Posted by Pengy

Did any one count the ears ?[/QUOTE

Ears were worth 3 rounds .303 for a pair. A pig snout was the same.

You are right 'Turehu' A private hunter received the ammo bonus above as the cullers.

To a culler depending on the era of course but say late 50s early 6os a set of deer ears and tail or a pig snout could well have been worth 2 shillings to 18 shillings each.

Plus it looks like they are taking deer skins at whatever the price was per pound.

That was as well as the ammo bonus above.

Thanks Pengy..will do I recognise one of lads x culler in the Urewera, passed on I'm afraid

Is this thread OK for some other old timers? - I put one up in the photography section but not sure it was seen - was from fifty years back when I was seventeen - he was maybe sixty - can I put it up?

Originally Posted by time out

Is this thread OK for some other old timers? - I put one up in the photography section but not sure it was seen - was from fifty years back when I was seventeen - he was maybe sixty - can I put it up?

It is a.public forum mate. Fill your boots

Originally Posted by Turehu

Thanks Pengy..will do I recognise one of lads x culler in the Urewera, passed on I'm afraid

Is it Tom Cookson you recognise 'Tureha'

Alan Jones on the rover

My father, like so many, after the war (he did not serve in the forces as he was too young) shot deer for the skins...you could trade the ears for ammo, ex-army .303...three rounds for a set...among them would be the odd tracer...

Some amazing pictures Pengy - it would be interesting to know the date of some of them - the E series plates on the Landy were issued between 1968 and 1970 so likely it was after that
I started hunting deer up the Tokomaru River just south of Palmy Nth in 64 - Henry Irwin lived in an old farm/lumber hut up the back of the Ryder farm - he was a bit of a recluse following issues around WW2
Henry earned his living from skins and he knew the Toko River catchment like the back of his hands - he was always happy to tell us young guys where he had done a burn and planted rye/clover seed
Must have been a hard case going to to Palmy on a Newmans bus to sell his skins and purchase supplies
I have some wonderful memories of Henry - spent hours talking to him and he came out with us for a few hunts - this pic round 1967 - he may have been in his fifties -

Nice pic mate.