Thread: Scribe (Graeme Sturgeon}

I met Scribe on the Coro coast one time. Showed up with a fawn we were hand rearing. He was a count of knowledge, information and stories.

Tickled pink I was able to drop this old culler off some venison and woolly pork a couple of times.

Condolences to Julie and family.

In the happy hunting grounds now.


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His book is a quality read.3 weeks ago we were looking over his old haunts in the distance.He must have loved jumping into a machine after the hard slog meat hunting on the back of Mangaohane.

Scribe - So sorry to hear you are gone.

Sue and I once dropped in a number of years ago on our way back from Kennedy Bay, and you were in the bath Haha trying to sweat out a bout of the bot you'd picked up. Yeah, we didn't stick around that day but made arrangements to catch up and I was always amazed at your depth of thought. Amazing writer and loved your yarns.

May you have the campfire and the whiskey ready for us someday at that great hunting spot upstairs when we arrive to take our place.

Oh goddamit, that's a shame.

RIP Scribe.

He was a good one for sure. Condolences to his family.

Originally Posted by zimmer

Just reading up again about his court case (dismissed by the judge) where he was amazingly charged with assaulting a DOC security (unlicensed) guard.

Im sure he used to post on the other (green) forum but I cannot find anything there now.

Had his own forum : Hunter and the Hunted" a great guy with strong beliefs. RIP Sturg.

Rest in peace Graham.

Go in peace Scribe, thanks for all your ethics,effort and dedication. Will miss the yarns.

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I was a year or two behind him, hunting in the Ruahines. His name was in every hut book and i enjoyed reading his entries

Originally Posted by Backcountry Bob

I was a year or two behind him, hunting in the Ruahines. His name was in every hut book and i enjoyed reading his entries

Who with? We knew Garry Sutton quite well.

Rip Graham!
I had the pleasure of running into him quite often with his family in tow when he did his pilgrimage to fill his freezer at mangaohane every year.
Quite often sat down to a cup of tea or a beer and told yarns.
He used to stay at the Makirikri caravans and later at smythes hut and hunt the area.
In tribute to him the other day I actually got my hilux to a hut they used to use alot that's on doc land that they used to take the old cruiser to.
I would just about be first to get my hilux there in the last 20yrs as two private property's to go through and the track has only just been made possible to do again!
I have read his 3 books and enjoyed them all.
Bloody good fella who I will miss seeing in the scrub!


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Re his cruiser.
It turned out to be a bit too high for the garage at Thames, so the old boy cut out 2 trenches for the wheels

Hunted on the same block with Garry Sutton when we shot for Henry Dorrian, based at Kawhatau. Then after a stint in the scrub, we would hit the booze in the big town of Mangaweka, sleep it off at the old condemned house down the road from the Police station good days never to be repeated.

Sorry to hear about Graham. R.I.P.

Originally Posted by Duxbac

Hunted on the same block with Garry Sutton when we shot for Henry Dorrian, based at Kawhatau. Then after a stint in the scrub, we would hit the booze in the big town of Mangaweka, sleep it off at the old condemned house down the road from the Police station good days never to be repeated.

You may have shot at the same time as a mate of mine: JC?? He left quite a bit of good poetry in the log books on that side of the hill.