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trip report from all over
well i'm home with a load of laundry on, truck unpacked (yet to clean rifles and put all the toys away) and a good nights sleep
the trip started off going via @dannyb to chrono the load i am using and double check the 308 was pointed the right way and still went bang.
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trundle down and picked up @silent_scope for a few nights chasing tahr around the back of lake Ohau. the drive in was rather annoying after losing the track and spending two hours bouncing up the riverbed over head sized rocks and boulders at 5km/h. tahr were seen but up to high, got withen 900 yards of a couple of decent bulls but ran out of light to get any closer and get a shot off. came back the next morning and the little buggers were even higher! had a great encounter with half a dozen kea at close range (as in 2 foot away trying to get into my pack) thee @DPT chassis are so good even the kea want a piece after seeing a vehicle on the other side of the riverbed we tried to get across and i managed to put the truck right were it shouldnt be.... as in up to the winch bar in wet (bloody cold) riverbed gravel, had to dig the gravel out of the socket to plug the winch remote in!. with the disadvantage of winchs only designed to pull you forwards. so out with the spare tyre and winch rope around the side of the truck and see what happens.... bit of damage to the plastic on the winch bar and the steel that holds the fairlead (rollers) assembly on made some progress before the tyre came lose as we were scratching out heads a vehciel showed up with a quick pull we were free (would still be there i think)
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whilst on this trip my garmin inreach decided to play silly bugggers. said messages were being sent but wasnt receiving any replies, managed to get the weather update so it was working. messages were received 5days later..... will be following this issue up with them
another day on the hills looking for a bit of venison, decided to walk past a pair of pigs and try further up, saw a few chamoai but no deer (discovered some fresh bootprints which may explain things) on our return the pigs had moved on so no luck there.
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next section of my gallivanting involved a drive (about this time i wasnt liking the mud tyres on the old 80series ) to alexandra on reports i had heard of a goat problem. had a friend come up from invercargill and join me, first day we cleaned up about 20 and saw at least 150... took a few legs and backstreaks off the nannies. second day another dozen or so and another 50 odd running off. of course if we both had our ARs we would have done a bit better.
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then off to Kurow to meet up with @Harryg who took me onto a private station where we saw plenty of animals. the same problem with the tahr though, just to high up. could probably managed to get at a few of them after dedicating a few hours of solid uphill grind. suspect with the snow 2 weeks ago they all came down, now its melted they have moved back up.
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following this was a late night blasting the hares with @dannyb have a feeling the cz 455 is in rather a need for a clean after shooting a group and it has expanded to around 1.5" at 100yards rather than the usual group that my thumb will cover.
all in all a good trip, plenty of animals seen but sadly the chilly bins are only full of goat and hare rather than tahr and vension!
