Thread: a wee story from scribe/The Devil Looks After His Own

No Trev's round here ,normally late spring when the white bait start to move they turn up. Few school sharks about being hard on gear & me. Some good snapper still though ,not in big numbers but 2 or 3 each trip.Bit bumpy out the coast at the moment will see if it flattens off next week .

Good to see the return of scribe one name or the other.

Originally Posted by mucko

Good to see the return of scribe one name or the other.

Thanks again Mucko

Gidday Graeme, Twoshot has told me alot about you. All good things so no need to call in the hounds

Originally Posted by Gibo

Gidday Graeme, Twoshot has told me alot about you. All good things so no need to call in the hounds

Hi Gibo, I don't remember if we have talked before, but how are you. Where are you from??? I am going to try and find where members
are and 'you know' go to a few meets and that sort of thing.

Don't believe anything Twoshot tells you. He was Oneshot when we all went out for a shot one day and Twoshot when he got home. But least he got the deer. My dog had a brain fart when a yearling came down the bank at about 4 metres away and tried to grab it and put half the deer population in the Urewera's to flight that were about to cross the river to the farmland. Wisely she went and slept under the motorbike instead of coming back to the hut that night.

A good dog will at times still cost you a deer. But it doesn't make it any easier to put up with does it, I was cross enough that night to gnash the woodwork of my Sako with my teeth.


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Originally Posted by Graeme Sturgeon

Hi Gibo, I don't remember if we have talked before, but how are you. Where are you from??? I am going to try and find where members
are and 'you know' go to a few meets and that sort of thing.

Don't believe anything Twoshot tells you. He was Oneshot when we all went out for a shot one day and Twoshot when he got home. But least he got the deer. My dog had a brain fart when a yearling came down the bank at about 4 metres away and tried to grab it and put half the deer population in the Urewera's to flight that were about to cross the river to the farmland. Wisely she went and slept under the motorbike instead of coming back to the hut that night.

A good dog will at times still cost you a deer. But it doesn't make it any easier to put up with does it, I was cross enough that night to gnash the woodwork of my Sako with my teeth.


Scribe

Ha Ha! Yip heard the one shot metamorphosis story
Im in Te Puke. Currently terrorising the Kaimais, Pap hills and wider Rotorua Lake forests

I dont remember a scribe :/ I remember reading that story but never remembered a scribe. Hows that for a memory?

Welcome back Scribe

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Originally Posted by Toby

I dont remember a scribe :/ I remember reading that story but never remembered a scribe. Hows that for a memory?

I think I was a couple of ridges away when the actual name changing event took place.

Originally Posted by Toby

I dont remember a scribe :/ I remember reading that story but never remembered a scribe. Hows that for a memory?

You were hospitalised with you leg when Graeme was last around Toby. To many pretty nurses to distract you to remember anything else from that time.

Originally Posted by veitnamcam

Welcome back Scribe

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Thanks Mate, How are you. I read your story about Otutu with interest. It brought back memories. I have been in their a couple of times on meat shooting runs. Its hard to get Sika up there in the winter alright.

I am going to tell you how we used to hunt the little bastards. We used to leave camp at 10 and travel a reasonable speed all day expecting to put up twenty and maybe get three or four of them. I know this is opposite to what most people might say and I have no beef with anyone else's hunting methods. But experience showed us that it was all that stop to listen and start off again that put deer to flight (think stalking cat) Accept the fact that the deer is going to hear you before you see or hear it, but if you kept the noise down and just sort of glide in they don't know you are not another deer. They cant afford to run from sound, they wouldn't get a root or have time to put away enough tucker to survive. We always found we could trade distance travelled for the loss of a few animals from noise and always be on the right side of the ledger. Not just with Japs either.

Otutu was the first hut that I can remember hearing about the Kaimanawa Huntaway. I must have been told about it by Dick Hart and Paddy Clark the resident meat hunters. But out to the west of Otutu, possible on the Maori land or even on Ngamatea there was some great golden tussock basins with small patches of mountain beech in the bottoms. We used to roll bloody big gooleys down the ridges into the bush to flush out the deer. Why this method is called the Kaimanawa huntaway I don't know because I have used and seen the method used in other places.

An once he starts running you can't whistle the bastard in!

Originally Posted by Graeme Sturgeon

Thanks Mate, How are you. I read your story about Otutu with interest. It brought back memories. I have been in their a couple of times on meat shooting runs. Its hard to get Sika up there in the winter alright.

I am going to tell you how we used to hunt the little bastards. We used to leave camp at 10 and travel a reasonable speed all day expecting to put up twenty and maybe get three or four of them. I know this is opposite to what most people might say and I have no beef with anyone else's hunting methods. But experience showed us that it was all that stop to listen and start off again that put deer to flight (think stalking cat) Accept the fact that the deer is going to hear you before you see or hear it, but if you kept the noise down and just sort of glide in they don't know you are not another deer. They cant afford to run from sound, they wouldn't get a root or have time to put away enough tucker to survive. We always found we could trade distance travelled for the loss of a few animals from noise and always be on the right side of the ledger. Not just with Japs either.

Otutu was the first hut that I can remember hearing about the Kaimanawa Huntaway. I must have been told about it by Dick Hart and Paddy Clark the resident meat hunters. But out to the west of Otutu, possible on the Maori land or even on Ngamatea there was some great golden tussock basins with small patches of mountain beech in the bottoms. We used to roll bloody big gooleys down the ridges into the bush to flush out the deer. Why this method is called the Kaimanawa huntaway I don't know because I have used and seen the method used in other places.

Makes sense to me.
The amount of sign in the bush from summer autumn was incredible!

Other than that trip haven't been hunting for a while, scored a dingy so trying to be a fisherman

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Originally Posted by veitnamcam

Makes sense to me.
The amount of sign in the bush from summer autumn was incredible!

Other than that trip haven't been hunting for a while, scored a dingy so trying to be a fisherman

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And I would say doing a fairly good job....

Originally Posted by mikee

And I would say doing a fairly good job....

you mean i am rough?

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