Thread: Old school hunting

I saw this pic on the FB NZ deer cullers page; and for some reason just love it.... Using the great 7.7 Rimmed Creedmoor of course!

Just yesterday I ordered 2 of those shirts

Awesome 👌

I started deerstalking with a fully wooded .303 that was my 16th birthday (1963) present from my father, which cost him just under 10 Pounds from Turner & LeBrun for a new FTR'd BSA No.1 Mk.III*. After a half a dozen trips I cut it down to a sporter and put a 4x32 scope on it, then used it regularly until 1967 when I bought a BSA Majestic .243 while working at West Arm. What a disaster! I shot 4 deer with it in the first two weeks and never recovered one. The 100 grain Norma Tri-clad steel bullets were just going straight through as the ranges were all under 50 metres. I got rid of it and my old .303 got a lot more use over the next few years (as well as a sporterised .30/06 Garand that was also a gift from Dad). I then bought another BSA Majestic in .30/06 about 1970 and still use that calibre today, never having hunted with my .303 since.

You can tell he was a rich kid, us poor buggers could only afford a pair of jocks.

Originally Posted by bumblefoot

I saw this pic on the FB NZ deer cullers page; and for some reason just love it.... Using the great 7.7 Rimmed Creedmoor of course!

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What! No camo! No scope sight! No suppressor! No bipod! How did this clown manage to shoot a deer??

Originally Posted by Ranger 888

What! No camo! No scope sight! No suppressor! No bipod! How did this clown manage to shoot a deer??

Clubbed it down with the stock like we all did in those days. Then Bayonetted it , not shown to spare the Germans feelings

Hope you don't mind bumblefoot, pls remove if not ok.
Guy on the right is my uncle, my family settled in Mokihinui, Hector, Millerton on the West Coast in the early 1900's.
So this photo is around there somewhere.

Originally Posted by Twodiffs

Hope you don't mind bumblefoot, pls remove if not ok.
Guy on the right is my uncle, my family settled in Mokihinui, Hector, Millerton on the West Coast in the early 1900's.
So this photo is around there somewhere.

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Your uncle was obviously a casual hunter, he's not wearing a tie with that jacket.

Greetings,
I wonder if that clay pan and the hills behind are choked with contorta by now. We tend to forget how little of the wizzo clothing, kit and especially rifles was available to most as recently as the 1950's and 60's.
GPM.

Originally Posted by grandpamac

Greetings,
I wonder if that clay pan and the hills behind are choked with contorta by now. We tend to forget how little of the wizzo clothing, kit and especially rifles was available to most as recently as the 1950's and 60's.
GPM.

I would have said late 80’s for flash clothing. Huntech was started about then, probably the first readily available brands. Sleeping bags and tents a bit earlier.

Originally Posted by grandpamac

Greetings, I wonder if that clay pan and the hills behind are choked with contorta by now. We tend to forget how little of the wizzo clothing, kit and especially rifles was available to most as recently as the 1950's and 60's. GPM.

@grandpamac And even later than that. I bought my first centrefire in 1980; a year after I left school. It was an ex WW2 K98 8x57. It cost around $70 and I had to put it on layby because my butchery apprentice wages couldn't afford that cost. I put an old 4x32 Pecar scope on it. It was beaten up and had a very fine crosshair reticle, but again, was all I could afford. But even then, it was mostly BSA's and Parker Hales that were the predominant new rifles we saw in Taranaki.

Funny; to this day I can still remember firing my first ever centrefire shot through that rifle, and the trepidation before I pulled the trigger; I would have been 17. I'd got my gun licence at 16, and because I asn't 18 mum and dad had to agree to me getting it. The only reason they did was because I'd had firearm training in the ATC. They bought me a Stirling .22 for my 16th birthday.

About 2 years later I bought a new Ruger M77 .270 from Sutherland Sports in NP. Cost me $434, and mum hit the roof when I told her the cost! I paid a deposit, put it on laybuy, took it home. I drove to NP every Friday night to put $20 down on it until I'd paid it off!

Barwicks Auction Mart in Gisborne I can remember as a young fella going in and they had racks of 303 some fully wooded some not many new - BSA Martini action .22 rifles and 410 Kea guns for sale ( the .22 BSA might have been ex training or cadet rifles they had bought at auction ??? ) and lots of ex army clothing - used to ride back up to work on an old triumph 650 wearing an ex army great coat -

Speaking of drooling.... K98s being packed up after WW2....


@NIMROD Dad's old farming mags had the Valentine's surplus store ads on te back page. I used to drool at the ads for new/in grease Jungle carbines and M1 carbines for $26! Sorry for the old man "in my day" references!