Thread: When men were men

Awhile ago i had another read of my Philip Holden book called Hunter by Profession , published in 1973 where he writes about his time living in Mangaweka and meat hunting in the nearby Ruahines.
A lot of the areas he hunted like the Pourangaki, Hikurangi stream, the Kawhatau river and the Maropea behind Mokai station i am quite familiar with and the thought of carrying a whole deer carcass out from those areas on a regular basis is mind boggling , even though like a lot of blokes my age i have carried the odd deer out of the bush myself.