Thread: Venison meat hunting in NZ in the past

A couple of pics skin hunting pre-dating my meat hunting. With the old 303's. I was just a kid (pic not of me). Mate Bill's foresight was a lump of filed to shape solder. In the Puketios. You can see the skins in the sack packs.





Later, us using horses meat hunting.



This was hard case. A mate (same person as in the skin hunting pics) and I went to check a deer trap of mine. As we looked across to it we could see a stag on the outside of the fence and the trip wire gate was open. He was a big stag and would end up in the chiller if we caught him so I gave my mate my .223 to sneak down and head shoot it. Well as he got close the stag spotted him and bolted along the fence. As it came up to the gate old mate had a head shot at him on the run and missed, and at the shot the stag turned sharply and dived through the gate into the pen. We sprinted along behind him and slammed the gate shot (he didn't trip the gate wire). Mate then shot him in the pen.
Here he is: