Thread: Boys trip with Dad

Over the weekend just gone I took my Father and another older mate that lives around the corner from me over to Wanganui for a Boys hunting/shooting getaway.

My Dad did plenty of hunting in his younger years and through the meat hunting days, but hasn't shot a deer now for around 30 years, i'm slowly getting him back into it. Its just nice spending time with him doing what he used to love and still talks so fondly about.

The plan was to have it a fairly easy trip, using a quad to get up into the hunting area and spend time behind the binos and see what was about. Also to do a bit of longer range steel shooting, to get him to shoot further than he has before.

The animal numbers were quite disappointing, with only 4 fallow seen the whole time (and two of those were fawns). My mate Peter shot a young one on the first night. He's only just getting back into hunting after a almost 2 year break, and it was the first animal hes shot with the new hand-loads that i have made for him and re-sighted his rifle to make better use of Point Blank Range. He pulled off a great shot at around 250 yards (which is a long way for him), he was stoked.

Things never ended up working out for my Dad shooting a deer. I offered him the shot of an adult doe, but he wasnt able to get a steady rest etc, so he told me to shoot it in the end. And he missed another one later on. And after that there were no more opportunities unfortunately due to the low animal numbers.

Dad and Peter had a great time and seemed to really enjoy the steel shooting, we ended up with 3 fallow, all be it two very young small ones, but it was slim pickings, but im sure they will be tender and tasty. We also thinned the goats out a little more too.

Here's a little video of the trip.

https://youtu.be/yeoqULlzDN8

That was very cool. Good on you for getting Dad back into it. Father and son stuff is great!

awesome

i recognise that place

Awesome, did Peter pull out the 'man alive' saying?

Good to see him out in the hills again

Excellent stuff.

Top effort

Cool trip man, great vid too.

Fantastic

Get the old boys out there.

Cool, those trips with family and close friends are what memories are made of. Great video your Dad can still shoot well and not to bad on the hill lugging meat.

Originally Posted by Mooseman

Cool, those trips with family and close friends are what memories are made of. Great video your Dad can still shoot well and not to bad on the hill lugging meat.

We won't mention the deer he clean missed at 156 yards, that footage got left out 😉

We all miss from time to time, all part of hunting.

Awesome, what camera did you use for your video? Cheers

Originally Posted by XBoltstalker

Awesome, what camera did you use for your video? Cheers

Thanks.

All the footage of animals and gong shooting was with a Canon SX50HS, the other close range footage was just using a galaxy S5 phone.

The canon SX50HS has been superceded by the SX60HS which is the same but with a bit more optical zoom and a couple of other features.