Thread: Venison meat hunting in NZ in the past

trying to keep the thread alive fellas cause I'm bored of posts of black guns.Cant for the life of me remember dropping off to a Marton chiller but maybe that was head office and I dropped off to one of their depots out in the sticks.Post # 105 @sharps no 1- a chit from the Marty chiller run by the joker Higginson

best weight I can remember was a mate sold a stag from Te Kumi right up the east coast 404 lb sold shot out in the paddock in velvet - most whole stags we sold were in the 130 -230 lb mark 230 was rare - most stags were around 150 -180 lb - our best pig was 290 lb - but most boars were 100-150 lb mark - best goat was 110 lb - but the freezers rarely took goats- but one could sell if at the right time of year they could get a big lot - when I shepherded on Makomako at Tokomaru bay we sold some big musters of goats one truck went out with over 200 on it live - much later we shot it just before it went into pines - over 3000 goats in 3 weeks of shooting - Kel set our record of 119 in one day and that was with a .270 I bet his ears are buggered today - ear protection was unknown to us then lol - all the goats I have tipped over culling the best head I ever got was 35 1/2 inches goes to show how rare those 40 in plus goats are - I never saw a goat head bigger than mine shot - my best stag culling or meat hunting was a big 12 shot at Willow flat and that was the biggest I ever saw from any of us - I watched a bigger stag a 14 pointer at Willow flat one morning but was not allowed to shoot deer on that property only goats - trust me I was very tempted - I sat watching him thru the scope trying to figure out how I could shoot and retrieve later but let him go