Dustoff for Willie Peters

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Originally Posted by DAF

I would be keen for a read as well :)


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Shouldnt take long to get to you 'daf' that 'Veitnamcam' is a fast reader he chewed up the other book pretty fast.

I knew vern when he was there.
Off out there again next spring I still do the fencing there and just love the place for the veiws people that i meet and not to mention smacking over the odd veni.
I just wonder if i have met you Dundee at some time in the past.
I presume you are a mate of Hamish
Give me a pm if you keen for a chat

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Originally Posted by Dundee

Hey Scribe I'm getting there Chapter 7 now:D

Were in Waiouru 1989 and Mangohane Station about 14 or 15 years ago but make a point of going thru that block yearly.

My cousin worked there as a trapper and pretty ironic his initials are V.C and he fought in the Rhodesian war.

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Originally Posted by andyanimal31

I knew vern when he was there.
Off out there again next spring I still do the fencing there and just love the place for the veiws people that i meet and not to mention smacking over the odd veni.
I just wonder if i have met you Dundee at some time in the past.
I presume you are a mate of Hamish
Give me a pm if you keen for a chat

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Missed out on the Lions (charity - Ronald McDonald house) 4WD trip earlier this year, too many other buggers had signed up, it went through Otupae, Mangohane, Erewhon, Black Hill and Ohinewairua.

Apparently Mangohane was the first sheep and beef farm in New Zealand to sell for more than $1 million (Warren Plimmer and Jim Bull brought it for around $1.3 million back in 1973... big money back then). I did a bit of work on Bulls other farms, never got up to Mangohane.

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Originally Posted by Raging Bull

Missed out on the Lions (charity - Ronald McDonald house) 4WD trip earlier this year, too many other buggers had signed up, it went through Otupae, Mangohane, Erewhon, Black Hill and Ohinewairua.

Apparently Mangohane was the first sheep and beef farm in New Zealand to sell for more than $1 million (Warren Plimmer and Jim Bull brought it for around $1.3 million back in 1973... big money back then). I did a bit of work on Bulls other farms, never got up to Mangohane.

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I remember the sale, we were out the back trapping and hunting then...We were also up there when this mob from the lions club came through on their bikes...I couldnt believe how many of them there was

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Originally Posted by Scribe

I remember the sale, we were out the back trapping and hunting then...We were also up there when this mob from the lions club came through on their bikes...I couldnt believe how many of them there was

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Yeah, it was auctioned off at the Napier Wool Exchange in December, 1973.

The limit for the Hunterville 4x4 Tour this year was 75 vehicles, thats a lot, but at $250 per vehicle (incl two passengers) and $50 per extra adult, $25 per child (13 and under), they would of raised a fair bit of coin for R McDonald House.

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Originally Posted by Raging Bull

Yeah, it was auctioned off at the Napier Wool Exchange in December, 1973.

The limit for the Hunterville 4x4 Tour this year was 75 vehicles, thats a lot, but at $250 per vehicle (incl two passengers) and $50 per extra adult, $25 per child (13 and under), they would of raised a fair bit of coin for R McDonald House.

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When all those motor bikes and vehicles arrived up there the deer thought they were all hunters arriving and so vanished from the face of the earth for a couple of days.

I never have forgotten the Plateau. Jim Warren the resident bonus hunter showing me around the block took me up there for my first visit.
We travelled up the Mangatera almost to Lake Colenso and turned up the Waikotore Stream, we cullers had a 1/2 sized tent camp half way up this stream. We climbed out of the gorge next morning up two beech logs wired together for a ladder (shades of Cave Creek) and hit the track between Taitapu and Ohutu Ridge. When we stepped out onto Ohutu Ridge I could not believe what wonderful country lay at my feet. The rolling hills covered in the golden tussock waving in the light autumn breeze and the valleys with their little patches of alphine beech forest that still survived on the shady and wet sides of the valleys that had seen all the fires of the Moa Hunters long ago.

I could faintly make out the airstrip at Ruahine Corner and the boundary of our block the Ikawatea River System, and No Mans beyond. I could see the Otupae Range that still held mobs of 60 deer then, away in the distance. Futher out still was the Comet and the mountains of the Tongariro National Park while between in the hazy distance we had the Kaimanawa's and the Kawekas that beckoned and demanded a quick poach. Closer in we had Black Hill and Aorangi and all the local features, clearwater campsite, the Waikotore Stream and the most marvellous camp of all, in a sheltered basin in the forest on the most eastern point of Ohutu Ridge. Ohutu Ridge Tent Camp.

It is interesting, now only the iron chimney remains of the tent camp but the basin itself where the camp once stood in all its glory is now called by the locals Hind Park.

It must have had some effect on a man because I have never really left the place. Either in person or in spirit I am still at that place .

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Originally Posted by Scribe

Actually there was a distinct shortage of 'Dawfs' in the area at the time I remember. It might have been him too 'TeRei'

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Probably your mate on PG Tips?

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Originally Posted by Scribe

When all those motor bikes and vehicles arrived up there the deer thought they were all hunters arriving and so vanished from the face of the earth for a couple of days.

I never have forgotten the Plateau. Jim Warren the resident bonus hunter showing me around the block took me up there for my first visit.
We travelled up the Mangatera almost to Lake Colenso and turned up the Waikotore Stream, we cullers had a 1/2 sized tent camp half way up this stream. We climbed out of the gorge next morning up two beech logs wired together for a ladder (shades of Cave Creek) and hit the track between Taitapu and Ohutu Ridge. When we stepped out onto Ohutu Ridge I could not believe what wonderful country lay at my feet. The rolling hills covered in the golden tussock waving in the light autumn breeze and the valleys with their little patches of alphine beech forest that still survived on the shady and wet sides of the valleys that had seen all the fires of the Moa Hunters long ago.

I could faintly make out the airstrip at Ruahine Corner and the boundary of our block the Ikawatea River System, and No Mans beyond. I could see the Otupae Range that still held mobs of 60 deer then, away in the distance. Futher out still was the Comet and the mountains of the Tongariro National Park while between in the hazy distance we had the Kaimanawa's and the Kawekas that beckoned and demanded a quick poach. Closer in we had Black Hill and Aorangi and all the local features, clearwater campsite, the Waikotore Stream and the most marvellous camp of all, in a sheltered basin in the forest on the most eastern point of Ohutu Ridge. Ohutu Ridge Tent Camp.

It is interesting, now only the iron chimney remains of the tent camp but the basin itself where the camp once stood in all its glory is now called by the locals Hind Park.

It must have had some effect on a man because I have never really left the place. Either in person or in spirit I am still at that place .

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I bet they did.

Did you ever carry a camera back then? Would be great to see some photos of your old camps?

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Originally Posted by Raging Bull

I bet they did.

Did you ever carry a camera back then? Would be great to see some photos of your old camps?

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Second that.


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I have never had a lot of luck with camera,s...My first decent camera got monsooned in Malaya. My next one got full of water and silt crossing a flooded Marapea river. So I gave up.

If you go to the NZ Deercullers site and have a look in "the gallery" In the Ruahine section you will see most of the camps we used.
It is an interesting place to visit.


Meanwhile I will just have to paint little word pictures for you all which is what an author trys to do.

Attachment 2270.

Sorry about it coming out like this...But this is a photo taken by a friend of mine of one of our favorite huts in those day. Ruahine Corner.

I took my Wife to this hut for the first time when she was 17.

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Favourite Hut on the Plateau...Makirikiri....Oldest daughter was concieved somewhere within a 10 km radius of this hut.

Classic:thumbsup:

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Originally Posted by Scribe

I have never had a lot of luck with camera,s...My first decent camera got monsooned in Malaya. My next one got full of water and silt crossing a flooded Marapea river. So I gave up.

If you go to the NZ Deercullers site and have a look in "the gallery" In the Ruahine section you will see most of the camps we used.
It is an interesting place to visit.


Meanwhile I will just have to paint little word pictures for you all which is what an author trys to do.

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Thats a bit of a bugger. That NZ Deercullers website is a gem though, some cracker shots on there. I remember looking at it a couple of years ago when there weren't as many photos.

Looking forward to reading your book when it arrives.

Cant be far away now.

Heys guys - I obviously get paid a lot more than you sorry lot because after reading the back of Dundee's copy, I bought myself Scribe's book :D Fantasticly written, I'm absolutely loving it. I haven't really searched for a kiwi author before but the style of this narrative is right up my alley - really down to earth, easy to read.

Cheers Scribe, and I love your note in the front!! :D:thumbsup:

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Originally Posted by veitnamcam

Cant be far away now.

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No worries, it'll turn up. :D




Dougie - It is a different book to the one your reading.

Link: https://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&q..._ndV39fsz8Ghbw

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Originally Posted by Scribe

Sorry about it coming out like this...But this is a photo taken by a friend of mine of one of our favorite huts in those day. Ruahine Corner.

I took my Wife to this hut for the first time when she was 17.

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Is that 4 years after you were married?

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Originally Posted by TeRei

Is that 4 years after you were married?

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No you mischevious devil.

Look at Sky 18 August NGC Channel 72 at 8.30/9.30 .2 good programmes on Nam. Will tell Bill R you only thought pure thoughts in the bush.:thumbsup:

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Originally Posted by TeRei

Look at Sky 18 August NGC Channel 72 at 8.30/9.30 .2 good programmes on Nam. Will tell Bill R you only thought pure thoughts in the bush.:thumbsup:

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Will go to someones place to watch it...Tell Bill R I was up his road recently staying with Evan M but I didnt have enought time to go and see him and nan. And the pure thoughts just get purer as I get older.

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Originally Posted by DAF

I would be keen for a read as well :)


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I received a copy in the mail last night, have been home crook so finished it now.
Thanks Scribe a great read also:)
PM me your addy DAF and il send it on.

You are some reader 'cam' to get through that book in a day. I am glad you enjoyed it.

Most of last night as well-couldn't put it down "just one more chapter":D

I take it you have received the book by now DAF, enjoying it?

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Originally Posted by veitnamcam

I take it you have received the book by now DAF, enjoying it?

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Yes thank you, I Started it this evening, I only meant to take a peek but have ended up 36 pages in lol :thumbsup:

Me next if possible please, Don't know how to do the pm bit thingy

I brought a copy - and havnt had a chance to even open it yet - must make time as need to see what all you guys are raving about :thumbsup:

Well I've just had a chance to start on it - hes flying out to Vietnam - about 1/3 of the way in

Excellent Book!

I hope Scribes reading this (and comes back) :)

Spanners were you ever a soldier? This book tells it as it is eh, I love that however many years later so many things have stayed the same. Awesome story.

Cut lunch commando but not for long as tore ach tendon jumping out of a tree in Waioru and flagged it after that. Spent time at Burnham, West Melton etc also

There are trees in Wai??????

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My Dad just finished the book,thoroughly enjoyed it and recommends possom trapper should read it too. He also said to possom trappers' Nana too have a read also. Cheers Scribe :cool:

May see him tomorrow as we go next to your old haunts and look over that famous black hill.You may know there is a road on left to Kuri which is called Contorta Rd. May have to bodgie it to read GS Rd. Remember the dwarf got off his arse and targeted those early velvet stags in October in the tussock crawling on his belly. Hope to walk up to Ohutu in February when we raft the lower 'Tikei.

Well TeRei tell him too get his arse back on here! He is a wealth of knowledge. Regards too Scribe

I finished it a couple days ago.

Great read :D

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Originally Posted by Dundee

Well TeRei tell him too get his arse back on here! He is a wealth of knowledge. Regards too Scribe

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I second that Dundee. Scribe is a font of knowledge and extemely passionate about hunting and the environment. I for one miss his contributions to the forum. Do you know why he hasn't been active?

He got grumpy about the 1080 stuff :(