Thread: Wapiti hunters. Who was better?

Originally Posted by zimmer

This is the name I put up in post 7 but obviously most have not heard of him. Possible the first legally shot Wap (under licence) in NZ was his. Also was a 280 Ross user as a couple of them were. Vivian Donlad, well worth a Google.

I tried to read the whole book at the cafe shop, but clock was ticking so I took the picture for read it later. I like history, stories, tales and even rumors.

I d love to shoot a moose there with a 318 accelerated express… ;-)

Originally Posted by ANOTHERHUNTER

Ive done 8 ballots in there , great place. i recon 10 days is too short though.

Back in the 30's a 'short' hunt was 6 weeks

Originally Posted by ANOTHERHUNTER

Ive done 8 ballots in there , great place. i recon 10 days is too short though.

Back in the 20's and 30's a 'short' hunt for most big game hunters was a month. Not talking just NZ though. A long hunt 6 weeks to 2 months

Look at the time it took to do a safari in Africa or India in those times. Just crossing the ocean must have been an adventure in itself ( titanic sunk in 1912).

Originally Posted by XR500

Back in the 20's and 30's a 'short' hunt for most big game hunters was a month. Not talking just NZ though. A long hunt 6 weeks to 2 months

yip, Wives were a lot more tolerant back then

no - wives were a chattel and did as they were told. The good guys took the missus with them - plenty of books on safari hunting where the wife is present , along with 5 wagons and 100 porters...

Posted before.
Mick Halberg (father of Tony, uncle of Murray) 1926 on R of pic. He'd shot both. He was well over 6 foot tall for scale.

wives were a chattel and did as they were told!!!!!!!!!
reminds me of one of my favourite funnies
Man told God he was lonely..so God told man he would create good faithful loving and obedient wives for him in all the corners of the world..and man went away happy
God then made the world round and he laughed and laughed and laughed

Originally Posted by Friwi

I d love to shoot a moose there with a 318 accelerated express… ;-)

Exactly as Eddie Herrick did with two of the official NZ moose. I have one of the loose rounds out of his final Kynoch packet. Copper capped projectile, olde world look.

Because I read the story of the mouse in nz that I mentioned that caliber ;-)

Originally Posted by Lucky

Mick Rosanowski would of been a hard man if he's anything like his son Alan.

I designed and made 2-shot net guns for Mick and Alan in the late '70's early 80's and did a wee bit of flying in a 500 with Alan and Spence Putwain doing 'field testing'. All great guys! Possibly 'hard men' by today's standard but perfectly normal to us older shooters. Jack Lutterell was a thorough gentleman who didn't talk much about his early hunting years until you asked him. We both did a lot of trading as fellow cartridge collectors.

Originally Posted by Remmodel7

Just remember the first wapiti hunters had to pay for the license to hunt which was cost prohibitive to a lot of people back then. They also had the luxury back then of big pure unhunted wapiti bulls. A 365ds bull was shot and left as it wasn't big enough. No saints back then either. I know it's hard to canister but I think it is a genuinely interesting debate

I don't know what the Wapiti licenses cost but I found one of my grandfather's Otago Acclimatisation Society licenses dated 1927 to shoot one Red stag in the Matukituki. The price was 5 Pounds which was a lot of money back then.

I found an old magazine in a pile of books when I was hunting down South and there was a story in there from one of the old hunting mags that has been lost in time. The writings are from the 1930s or 40s from a duo on their annual trophy hunt. I can’t recall exactly where they were I’m sorry, but they spoke of open tops and plenty of animals. Each day, weather permitting, they were shooting multiple stags 14+points. I had a good laugh when they said that the stags they were shooting weren’t suitable for eating so they would pick out yearlings and give them a tune up for their meat.

I’d say it’s the technology that has had the biggest impact on hunting. Like some of the other members have stated—better scopes, versatile cartridges, helicopters, thermals, vehicles, even dogs with all the latest tracking devices…I reckon the greatest hunter will be the fella who still hunts like the old boys, but in this modern time. Who that is I’d have no idea lol.

Originally Posted by Friwi

Look at the time it took to do a safari in Africa or India in those times. Just crossing the ocean must have been an adventure in itself ( titanic sunk in 1912).

As well those who tried hard to see her at that deep in their own eyes. Implosion....what a terrible death