Thread: Ruahine Overnighter

I'll shoulder some of the blame, but not all of it, for numbers building up in there
This is the slip your "walking-bang stick" is pointing at in your photo Philipo

Originally Posted by ANTSMAN

@Philipo with the Savage? What cal?

7mm PRC bro, I think Sav is the only factory rifle you can get in 7prc at the mo, I actually don't mind it. Thought I'd take it up there to see what it was like as a walking stick & it was pretty nice to carry, a little heavy with the rail & NF NX8 on it but well balanced

I'm shooting factory ammo currently ( have loaded some handloads to try but haven't put em through it yet ) the 180's shoot .8 - just under an inch, but I haven't verified at range yet so wasn't gunna shot past 4-500, it's new Terminator brake certainly a lot nicer to shoot.

She did come home a little dirty n rusty, got very wet on the way in but far out modern guns get the ginger spots bloody quick aye

Originally Posted by kiwijames

The Kylie dunny was the same but I'm not sure if there's been an improvement here. The lids held on by a rock
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Was there two weeks ago. No lid now, probably got ripped off in the wind.

Originally Posted by hebe

Was there two weeks ago. No lid now, probably got ripped off in the wind.

Na there's a lid there, good deck around it, and a pretty robust lid locking system that the back country trust installed in 2021.....unless it's just been replaced? But no mention in hut book about it.


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Exactly what the Ruahines needs, some one not afraid to knock some deer over; we’ll all benefit in the end, so will the environment.
The big bangers were just the ticket.
If I thought I could walk up there in around three hours I’d go back…
I was also planning on taking the 300 RUM up there, I think it’d like it up there and make some new friends. 😀

Originally Posted by craigc

Exactly what the Ruahines needs, some one not afraid to knock some deer over; we’ll all benefit in the end, so will the environment.
The big bangers were just the ticket.
If I thought I could walk up there in around three hours I’d go back…
I was also planning on taking the 300 RUM up there, I think it’d like it up there and make some new friends.

The whole of the Ruahines Craig.
I saw 6 reds this morning walking to Longview all from the track without binos !

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Originally Posted by NIMROD

Lady Hunter did from memory

And no... I didn't flog this sign When they put the new flash bang sign at the bottom of the spur,
they just tossed this one into the scrub. Lady Hunter convinced me I'd be doing a good clean up job by carrying it out
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And I suspect that they point in roughly the right direction, Ballard especially.
GPM.

Originally Posted by BRADS

It's a pretty shit time all round to be fair, so when @Philipo suggested an overnighter into the ruahines, I was keen as !
Late Thursday arvo saw us punching up the hill to Tarn Biv a bloody good climb for a couple of old fat fuckers in 2 hours 45.

What??? From all your posts over the years I thought you were a young buck in your 20's!!!..

Lovely pictures, sexy rifle too!

Originally Posted by BRADS

Na there's a lid there, good deck around it, and a pretty robust lid locking system that the back country trust installed in 2021.....unless it's just been replaced? But no mention in hut book about it.


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I can tell you now that when I sat on the Kylie throne the lid wasn't there. Could see the lid lockers and the decking etc but the actual toilet lid was gone. Made the flies pretty bad when the sun hit the biv.

Such awesome looking country. Defiantly on the list of places I still need to visit! ��

Longview looks like it'd be a busy spot, but this useless hunter will be giving it a nudge based on BRADS' comment.

Originally Posted by Quicknock

Longview looks like it'd be a busy spot, but this useless hunter will be giving it a nudge based on BRADS' comment.

Watch the wind up there blow ya off the ridge today

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