Thread: Rookie mistakes!

Originally Posted by aharvnz

I wear 2 pairs of socks. An inner thin merino sock and an outer thicker possum/wool sock.
Keeps the inner pair dry and don't get blisters or sore feet any more.

Yeah I don't think you can ever go wrong with extra socks!

Wow I'm so glad I can't relate to this haha

Originally Posted by Aly

Wow I'm so glad I can't relate to this haha

Its a rookie manouvre you wont need to be concerned with ha ha

Originally Posted by Aly

Wow I'm so glad I can't relate to this haha

Man Rookie get such a fright when trap grab him he tow log down to road and his mother get it for firewood.

I made a rookie mistake along time ago when I started trapping possums. The area I was trapping was real steep and it was thick bush on the bank of a river. To steep and thick to carry a rifle. While setting traps it required one hand to hold on to the bush while other hand nailed traps to trees,it was quite an art to nail traps to the trees with one hand without falling into the river.

When checking traps it required more skill. Hang on to tree with one hand,club possum with hammer and put foot on bag while having possum on uphill side of foot while I plucked the fur off.

You are probably thinking well what was the mistake I made?

One possum was clubbed released from trap,plucked on uphill side of foot while I was swinging off a tree and the bugger came too as I had just plucked all its fur off. This naked possum took off into the thick bush with a hell of a headache and no fur coat.

Originally Posted by Dundee

I made a rookie mistake along time ago when I started trapping possums. The area I was trapping was real steep and it was thick bush on the bank of a river. To steep and thick to carry a rifle. While setting traps it required one hand to hold on to the bush while other hand nailed traps to trees,it was quite an art to nail traps to the trees with one hand without falling into the river.

When checking traps it required more skill. Hang on to tree with one hand,club possum with hammer and put foot on bag while having possum on uphill side of foot while I plucked the fur off.

You are probably thinking well what was the mistake I made?

One possum was clubbed released from trap,plucked on uphill side of foot while I was swinging off a tree and the bugger came too as I had just plucked all its fur off. This naked possum took off into the thick bush with a hell of a headache and no fur coat.

No wonder the Anti 1080 brigade get accused of farming possums.

going duckshooting in cheap shitty chinese vinyl waders. setting decoys and getting the cold damp feeling crawling slowly upwards. look up to see a grinning GSP followerand another mate pointing at a rapidly splitting shitty seam. boy was it bloody cold and did the wedding tackle suffer -did it hell. even though i invested in a better quality full boot wader those plastic bastards aer colder than an embalmers handshake even in summer ,so ive had for kast 2yrs good neproene waders.
Ps A good long warm fart is a welcome method of warming tackle on the freezing mornings. if its got a liquid overtone you may well be in a spot of strife.
secondly check your duck calls are tight.Ive lost two that came apart (one found thank christ)and had a brand new one slip out of its tether into the shitty water of ellesmere-at $50.00 a pop roughly it gets expensive.