Ignore the ugly mug in the picture... The joys of hunting make it hard to take decent pictures. Personal best chanois coming in at just over 9.5 inches. 270461
Liked On: 14-03-2025, 03:02 PM
Heard a few hee haws, single calls and a red roar yesterday morning. Managed to knock this guy over with my 7mm SAUM when he popped out at 645metres.
Liked On: 14-03-2025, 03:01 PM
Left NPL bound for Whanganui on time. Made good time at the expense of an ice cream stop at the berry farm. Bummed.* Arrived 17h45, most of the boys already here, off loading quads, guns, and gear...
Liked On: 10-03-2025, 08:00 PM
269937 Had to take this one. Back yard visitor.
Liked On: 04-03-2025, 05:54 PM
Quick trip report for those who enjoy yarns in the bullet point style. I'll return to Trip Report 3, one of those epic late-night punishing hikes, but I'm pressed for time so I'll get this one up....
Liked On: 04-03-2025, 03:25 PM
Your rifle does not shoot every bullet into one hole. It has a "cone of fire" where bullet impacts are dispersed around the mean point of impact. It shoots groups. What causes this dispersion? A...
Liked On: 03-03-2025, 06:33 PM
Left early Wednesday am with Monk driving(so I could get ma beauty sleep), picked up Riley and headed to Hawkes Bay. Out of the truck, and off down the track. We started climbing which was a slog...
Liked On: 02-03-2025, 10:03 AM
Hi all! Excuse the enthusiasm! But I am so freaking proud of myself! I have no husband or father to hunt with (I have a wife who is not interested in the slightest).. grew up on a farm shooting...
Liked On: 28-02-2025, 05:59 PM
Got approval from the fam to head out for 3 nights and 3 days solo Goals: Explore a new part of a block, shoot a deer with the 223 for the thread :thumbs-up:...
Liked On: 18-02-2025, 07:55 PM
340 yards, with 74 Targex again. The tip over was a bit slow from a central shoulder shot so it got another one from steep down hill between the shoulders. That did it. I spend way too much time...
Liked On: 17-02-2025, 06:51 AM
Please only proceed if you have an interest in indicating dogs, as I promise much related nerdery in this tale. I’d been on a bit of a flat run to be honest on the hunting front over the last...
Liked On: 14-02-2025, 03:30 PM
Makes the dynamite more bouncy :yaeh am not durnk:
Liked On: 09-02-2025, 06:41 PM
Continuing on the tradition of the annual thread. Last year's here: https://www.nzhuntingandshooting.co.nz/f12/stags-bucks-2024-a-101589/ Show us your stags and bucks, big or small let's see 'em...
Liked On: 09-02-2025, 07:13 AM
We’d originally planned to travel up to the road end early morning and head up to the tops. Past experience told me that unless we left home at 02:00 we wouldn’t be making it to the tops before...
Liked On: 07-02-2025, 09:56 PM
Family hike on the weekend. 7 hours in the hot sun. Lucky we bought a tarp for sun shelter on the way. Got to hut, had dinner etc. Glassing from the hut, spotted pigs. Shot a pig across a...
Liked On: 05-02-2025, 08:36 PM