Thread: Old school hunting

heres a chop off one of them self shedding sheep......dont worry there was some SERIOUS trimming done LOL. they taste great but yeah really need a bit more exercise than wandering around a double section eating and sleeping.

As I wasn't anywhere near being born back in the 50s, I believe wool, which was always worth something, went through an absolute boom period during the Korean War. All the wool was getting bought for the cold weather over there.

The gear the guy in the photo that started all this, taught us how to precisely hold over for those long shots and to hold up a wet finger for wind direction, I’ve never used a scope you can dial.

This is awesome! Goat culling on Taranaki Maunga in 1949! Old school hunting using open sighted.303 rifles!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pCYwML_94LQ&t=340s

I took my old man out for a hunt last week and he insisted on bringing his pack from the 70's, the "Mountain Mule Expedition Super".

They sure don't make em like they used to.

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

Originally Posted by bumblefoot

This is awesome! Goat culling on Taranaki Maunga in 1949! Old school hunting using open sighted.303 rifles!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pCYwML_94LQ&t=340s

@Barry the hunter You'll enjoy this vid

yeah thanks for that bloody old school intrigued by the little terrier dogs goat bailers ??

Originally Posted by bumblefoot

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

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@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!

That's a pretty famous picture from Sola airfield in Southern Norway.

None of those Rifles were exported whole to make sporters . Most were rebarreled in 3006 and some later in 308 but very few.. The Navy kept theirs in 7.92 but the Army,Airforce,Railways and Coastal Artilly got remarried ones. They were still in use up until the 80s in dome reserve units. They were sold out to service personal for about $10 each

Until about 2015 there were still a few thousand in a warehouse on the east coast,they could not be exported because of a ban on weapon exports. Its rumoured Frakonia Jakt bought them,broke them down and used the receivers for their hunting rifles.

Originally Posted by Louie

I took my old man out for a hunt last week and he insisted on bringing his pack from the 70's, the "Mountain Mule Expedition Super".

They sure don't make em like they used to.

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Yep still got mine , doesnt get much use tho to be fair

was that the pack with built in tank for white spirits in the frame - I had a mountain mule got stolen at Kaitaia but did not have the tank in frame

Originally Posted by Barry the hunter

was that the pack with built in tank for white spirits in the frame - I had a mountain mule got stolen at Kaitaia but did not have the tank in frame

I don't think it had the built in tank frame, he did offer to bring his white spirits cooker of the same vintage though

Originally Posted by Barry the hunter

yeah thanks for that bloody old school intrigued by the little terrier dogs goat bailers ??

Yup, loving those dogs. No designer dogs in those days.

Originally Posted by Louie

I don't think it had the built in tank frame, he did offer to bring his white spirits cooker of the same vintage though

No, the Mountain Mule 'Expedition' packs like this one were the much more modern, lightweight versions available in the 1970's. The original welded and galv steel frames 'tanker' and non-tanker were still available then too, but the progressive hunter and tramper went for the aluminium framed Expedition !!

Originally Posted by bumblefoot

1970 brochure

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I worked in Tisdals PNth after school and during the holidays when I was 15&16. 1963/64. Loved it.