Thread: Old school hunting

In sixty nine I had to pay cash for a new land rover, three thousand dollars. I did buy a mini 14 but it was plenty good enough to shoot thru two inch openings in the supplejack that I used to hunt that was the urewera national park and maori land that we used to shoot.

yes I believe some Mini 14.s were okay the two we had nah - some of the Armalite,s we had aerial shooting were not that accurate either - much much better were the Heckler and Koch and Valmets although hard to get back then

Originally Posted by Micky Duck

my grandfather bought a brand new latest model top of the line Ford motor car for the price of one bale of wool.......
be lucky to by a push bike for that now...

For my coarse wool we now only sell the main line and bp and the BP barely covers the price of the fadge. Massive loss on shearing throughout the year now. See you later wool. Shedding sheep for me now

Greetings again,
Looking through the photos and posts made me wonder a little about the kit we used. I think that the first 10 years after WW2 it was because that was all there was. In the mid 1960's (when I started ventures into the hills) any rifle other than a cut down .303 was expensive. Even the base model Parker Hale .303 at $29.00 was more than a weeks pay and a months pay for a .308 Parker Hale plus expensive ammo rather than the sixpence a round milsurp .303 that most of us used. Little wonder we seldom saw other than .303 rifles in the bush.
These days I potter around with the two .303 rifles still here. As I clean them their barrels gleam back at me and I can almost hear "Just one more trip GPM, Just one more". Who can argue with that. At least the rifles are up to it.
Regards Grandpamac.

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

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 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.

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 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