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Great post Bruce you sure do push yourself to the limits. I also still enjoy all the aspects of the hunt which is what drives us to continue pushing the envelope.
I sure hope Tilly is alright after her op as I know how much she means to you, not just finding your deer but the companionship.
Keep it up love reading your adventures.
I spent morning on chainsaws....oh the joy of hearing a big Stihl sing while hoeing through redwood ....by 14;00 I was poked...completely shattered, unloaded 2 cord of big blocks and headed home with tail between legs for shower and spa..... years back I rooted tendons in both arms...feeling it today....but its good to be alive.
You've certainly not led a wasted life. :) If someone could invent a time machine, where people could experience different eras, that would be *the* biggest thing ever. Got to play the cards we're dealt ultimately and life is indeed what one makes of it.Quote:
Originally Posted by Tahr
Young'ns reading this Thar will think you are leading the idylic life for a hunter...but I suggest that to be in the position you are in now, some serious hard work and some privation was involved during your working career. You're doing bloody well:thumbsup:.
I'm a decade behind you, but have a mate almost a decade in front of you and he's still hard to keep up with! (I've buggered and fused joints from overdoing things a wee bit now and then:) )
I'm another Jim Neuman fan, ran into him as a 14 year old. He was the President of our local tramping club. He passed on an awful lot of important information to us, always in his quietly spoken manner. I still have a bic lighter with a piece of bicycle inner tube pulled over it for emergency fire lighting, in my hunting kit!
You're a long time dead. No sense taking a body in perfect working order to the grave:pacman:
Well done with sticking at it Tahr. Good luck with Tillys Op, I hope it's good new for the old girl. I bet she didn't know what you were up to with ya spill down the hill. It's not easy pushing a dog back up the hill either with her sore legs . I used to have to lift my old girl up into my van since she had buggered hips. Not so easy when the Hippo was 65kg.
I never hunted the bottom end of the Pari , only the top end , we would camp at tarns and spend our days hunting Mania , Dirty spur , beautiful tussock country of the Whanahuia rangeQuote:
Originally Posted by Tahr
Awesome stuff Bruce, you are a machine and I hope I can still be doing it at your age.
I'm sure you inspire us all, keep it up.
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Sequel.
Craig and I went for our over nighter.
I was stiffer and sorer than I anticipated but the Gods were kind and allowed me to shoot 2 easy deer :)
We were on a big rough station. Dry. And too many deer. We had been asked to "shoot a few".
No stags around - I expect that they are up on the range in the wetter bush country taking viagra and tuning up for the roar.
We saw about 14 deer. I was watching an old hind and took some pics of her and she eventually wandered onto a disused track and lay down with her fawn beside her. I wanted meat for sausages for a friend and figured that if I shot the fawn (yummy) I could get the hind when she dallied which I thought she would and then have to get up a bank and through scattered tawhine.
So I head shot the fawn (yummy) with the 300saum at 70 yards. The hind lunged up the bank and stopped and I knocked her over too. She fell right next to her fawn - the fawns are getting quite big now.
Boned them out, hung them in a tree, and Craig came back in the morning and collected them for me :) Good lad.
Meanwhile Craig was on his own adventure and he shot a hind (had no children) at 350 yards with his .284. So we went home with 2.5 deer. Nice.
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Craig got a vid of his shot:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Mfd...ature=youtu.be
B.E.A.S.T !! you are ;)
10/10 for landing:)
Geez man you old fellas are putting us "young" fellas to shame. Well done :)
Just saw this Bruce, you're a hard nut ! :thumbsup:
Only 2 questions from my side...
Were you brave enough to wake Mrs @Tahr to show off your injuries ? And did she give you a second beating after the one you managed to give yourself ?
agree 100% fawn is YUMMY.... hard case in that video it looks like she has legs crossed before shot...sure dropped her in her tracks.
@ebf I rang C when I got back to the truck to say I would be late and tell her what happened - she rang Craig - he rang me to check. Would you believe that he called me a silly old fool?? :)Quote:
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Didn't wake her - snuck into bed. I don't have a death wish :)
Nice one. I shot a fawn the other day but when I posted up a pic the Mods deleted it. wtf:wtfsmilie:
