Thread: Mountain Mules

Choice, happy campers all round. Nice shooting for his first deer.

Originally Posted by madmaori

Bloody awesome yarn as per usual , awesome old mate got to knock one over!
really awesome to meet you guys yesterday

It was a pleasure to meet you @madmaori
That was the best tyre service and pricing I have ever had.

Bay Tyres rock!

Well done indeed Bruce.

Being an import myself I can say it's definitely the outdoors that have bonded me with the Inlaws I've always been a fisherman but NZ gave me the chance to hunt which I don't take for granted and the father and brother in law were a great help in me finding my feet, and they share in any success if they are there or not....... That will mean a lot to those fellas and I'm surprised no one on here has asked if you have any more daughters �� Nice one.

What an experience for those lads. They will never forget it.

Good stuff @Tahr . Why do you keep the ears on the carcass? I meant to ask this ages ago after seeing pictures of people carrying animals out just kept forgetting.

Originally Posted by Tahr

Sequel:

I took our visitor "Chris the pom" out for a hunt last night. In the rain - we had driven a long way for the hunt so we pushed on.

Got him lined up on a young Fallow at 318 yards with my .243. Bang flop with a high shoulder shot!

Like Sam, it was his first ever shot from a rifle. I also got Chris onto the knife and he didn't make a bad job of that either.
Good times.

Experienced dog supervising,well done all round.

Originally Posted by Boar Freak

Good stuff @Tahr . Why do you keep the ears on the carcass? I meant to ask this ages ago after seeing pictures of people carrying animals out just kept forgetting.

@Boar Freak for me its a hang over from my commercial meat hunting days. The meat packers (Consolidated Traders in my case) would only take carcasses with their ears on. The ears were proof that they were wild animals and not farmed or stolen.

A deer carcass without its ears on still looks odd to me.

Originally Posted by Boar Freak

Good stuff @Tahr . Why do you keep the ears on the carcass? I meant to ask this ages ago after seeing pictures of people carrying animals out just kept forgetting.

@Boar Freak for me its a hang over from my commercial meat hunting days. The meat packers (Consolidated Traders in my case) would only take carcasses with their ears on. The ears were proof that they were wild animals and not farmed or stolen.

A deer carcass without its ears on still looks odd to me.

Originally Posted by Tahr

@Boar Freak for me its a hang over from my commercial meat hunting days. The meat packers (Consolidated Traders in my case) would only take carcasses with their ears on. The ears were proof that they were wild animals and not farmed or stolen.

A deer carcass without its ears on still looks odd to me.

OK thanks. I thought there was some reason why people keep them on (special skinning technique or something) .

This is hard case...

After Chris shot the Fallow in the pouring rain a spiker popped out for a nose. I had a new little Cannon camera (pocket size, 40x zoom) I was trying so I took a few pics. It was raining and in poor light.

I thought I was taking stills but the camera has a setting where when you take a still pic it immediately follows up with 5 seconds of vid and then compiles it all. I accidentally had that setting on and this is the rather bizarre result:

https://youtu.be/ckWdjibtc_I

Hard case alright Tahr.