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Thread: Hello to All You Upside-downers!

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    Hello to All You Upside-downers!



    I joined to find out how you hunt, what you hunt, and what you hunt with.

    Besides, my late father, WWII USA Navy veteran in the South Pacific, often said he loved drinking with the ANZACs. Friggin in the Riggin was his favorite song.

    I live in the USA...northern Nevada...and our hunting is the same and completely different if you follow me.

    We hunt high rugged mountains here that go to 9,000' or higher elevations. Things are pretty dry here, about 7" annual precipitation. My State has only mule deer, no white tails. We also have Very limited opportunities for bighorn sheep, mountain goat, elk, and pronghorn antelope.

    Fortunately, most of Nevada is open public federal land, but the Canadian, Dutch, Australian, German, and English mining companies are chewing it up as fast as technology and big equipment can do it.

    I look forward to learning about a country and place I've dreamed about most of my 68 years, so continue on and warm greetings.

    L2S
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    Hiya welcome to the forum. I don' think we've got anywhere as dry as 7 inches a year but we've got some wet bits with 300 inches pa.
    Plenty of public land here.
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    Welcome Easiest way to see what we hunt is on this link
    What to hunt

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    G'day and welcome. check out joshjameskiwibushman on youtube for some cool NZ hunting videos

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    Welcome Nevada.
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    Nice looking Kudu you got there.
    Where did you you get it, what with and how long.
    What are Mule like to hunt? Are they like white tail?
    Oh sorry yes and welcome.

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    always enjoyed frigging in the rigging .... it was too bad I was on an all male ship
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    Thanks everyone.

    The kudu was taken in Chinoi Zimbabwe and was a 55"er, a very old guy with good ivory on the tips. He was very elusive, and it took several days to get a clear shot at him. I found that kudu are a lot like hunting our Rocky Mountain elk here in the US. I took him with a Valmet 412S BBF combo gun in 12ga over 9,3X74R with 286gr Norma Oryx ammo. That 9,3X74R rocks them well. I also took a good cape buffalo later that trip in Masailand Tanzania with the same gun and another with a CZ 550 in 416 Rigby. NO...I'm not rich by any stretch. I maxed out credit cards to do the safaris and will be paying until they put me on the wrong side of the grass.

    Mule deer are a generally harder hunt than white tails. Mulies live in more rugged areas of the mountain west. You probably hunt as rugged or more so mountains in NZ from what photos I've seen of your beautiful country. When I figure out how to post photos I'll get some up of my neck of the woods.
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    Quote Originally Posted by luv2safari View Post
    Thanks everyone.

    The kudu was taken in Chinoi Zimbabwe and was a 55"er, a very old guy with good ivory on the tips. He was very elusive, and it took several days to get a clear shot at him. I found that kudu are a lot like hunting our Rocky Mountain elk here in the US. I took him with a Valmet 412S BBF combo gun in 12ga over 9,3X74R with 286gr Norma Oryx ammo. That 9,3X74R rocks them well. I also took a good cape buffalo later that trip in Masailand Tanzania with the same gun and another with a CZ 550 in 416 Rigby. NO...I'm not rich by any stretch. I maxed out credit cards to do the safaris and will be paying until they put me on the wrong side of the grass.

    Mule deer are a generally harder hunt than white tails. Mulies live in more rugged areas of the mountain west. You probably hunt as rugged or more so mountains in NZ from what photos I've seen of your beautiful country. When I figure out how to post photos I'll get some up of my neck of the woods.
    Thanks for the info

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    greetings oh wise and wonderful one,slayer of things big and bloody grumpy!!anyhow welcome on board -Im the resident lunatic.
    ya know if ya ever feel inclined sometime in the future to leap on the big tin budgieAKA Air new zealand Im pretty sure the buggers on this forum could show you around the land of the long white cloud!
    if ya come to christchurch who knows ,we might even rustle up a genuine kiwi earthquake for ya as a bonus issue. me im mainly a smallgame /wildfowl shooter -plenty of geese ,rabbits canada geese and pigeons on offer for a 12guage man.ducksa vasriety also on tap in our "duckshooting season"
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