Thread: Another found rifle...

Originally Posted by Tahr

Off topic, but this is my all time favourite 'photo that my wife took. 1974. Me and the 2 lads.

One lad looks impressed, the other... not so much.

Great photo.

Originally Posted by Tahr

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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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.

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