I wonder if this is still there - Ruahines. Have others' seen it?
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I wonder if this is still there - Ruahines. Have others' seen it?
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Whats written on the plate?
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"In loving memory of PRATT""David John" then dates 1945-2010 etc.Quote:
Originally Posted by HNTMAD
Last line....R.I.P, who's memorial and what connection they had to that area?
Pratt is a local surname.Quote:
Originally Posted by Slug
I recognize the spot but have never seen it? Was last there 2 years ago if i'm correct.
Dave Pratt late of Featheston.ex Internal Affairs Dept/Forest Service culler.Originally Set up the Orongorongo Possum Research Stn and did the initial studies on coons there in the 50's-60's.Lost his life white baiting drowned on the Ruamahunga.RIP.
was still there about 3 years ago should be up there in a few weeks will cheek
Back in the 60's when meat hunting 2 mates and I cut the track up from Thompsons to the tops and the one that starts at the creek half way up and goes up to the memorial rifle. There had been an old horse track from the old skin hunting days but it was impassable, especially through the leatherwood. We put in a lot of hours doing those tracks.
Then when Thompsons was sold and access got shut up we cut the one that goes up from Scanlon creek and links up with the ridge track. We had a tent camp at the broadleaf tree where the leatherwood starts on the ridge track but after the meat hunting days eventually everything got pinched which soured things a bit.
Good times. Not sure I will ever make it back up there but I have some wonderful memories.
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If it is possible to carry a bag of premixed concrete up there and make a cairn with the rifle concreted in that would be pretty coolQuote:
Originally Posted by 199p
I wouldn't touch someone else memorial, but if they needed some concrete carried up that's not problem.Quote:
Originally Posted by Moa Hunter
Something that you did Bruce, which many didn't (including me), was take celluloid photos.Quote:
Originally Posted by Tahr
That's priceless really.
Today, we all take several photos of the same thing with our phones, and end up with thousands of photos every year, which we might chuck on a hard drive and hope we don't lose somehow! Lots of people we all know don't backup and then lose their phones. Not good.
I've been pretty good at archiving hunting photos in the last several years, going back to about 2005 when I first had a decent smart phone. But man how I wish I had done what you've done from way back in the day.
I don't have a single photo of me and my Grandpa hunting fallow in Sussex when I was a kid, which really hurts. Nothing from the rough shooting days with my mates in the 80s, and only two photos of all the hunting over several years in NW Transvaal in South Africa. That really grates.
Look after the celluloid and make sure they have a "forever" home.
Off topic, but this is my all time favourite 'photo that my wife took. 1974. Me and the 2 lads.Quote:
Originally Posted by Flyblown
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Craig looks like craig
yes family and friends only to do those honours unless family ask youQuote:
Originally Posted by 199p
One lad looks impressed, the other... not so much.Quote:
Originally Posted by Tahr
Great photo.
There was a tarp like this at the top of Wild Sheep Spur in the Ruas. Like you said sadly many things that were left for other hunters to enjoy got flogged.Quote:
Originally Posted by Tahr
I found a rifle in good nick, in the carpark outside the old Te Iringa hut on Clements Road.. I guess somebody propped it up against the vehicle to load up the gear, then forgot it and drove off. Never did find the owner.
Walked past that many times
