Got me thinking, Variation changes with location but also changes with time so pulled out a map from twenty years ago and compared it to a recent one. Not quite 1 degree difference. Not enough to...
Liked On: 04-10-2024, 08:35 AM
two little jingles - never forgotten them- true virgins make dull company = true variation magnetic deviation compass - and error east compass least = so one deducts 22 degrees of variation (...
Liked On: 04-10-2024, 08:34 AM
Discussion in another thread got me thinking..... the map n compass thing is becoming a lost art,even those of us who learnt it years ago need to brush up and some do it completely differently to...
Liked On: 04-10-2024, 07:21 AM
Plotting bearing and converting them adds another potential fuck up to mix that's not needed. Learn to orientate the map to begin with. Bloody sight easier to work with. Then simply line side of...
Liked On: 03-10-2024, 10:31 PM
Great to hear some September deer hunting yarns, so I'll add one to the mix. I went out for a solo hike in some strong wind. I didn't think I'd have any luck but I took the rifle anyway. After a...
Liked On: 03-10-2024, 10:18 PM
I just cleaned up the meat from last night one. Butchered in haste on the hill to maybe get to the truck before dark. Man there were a lot of hairs on that meat. So next time we shoot them...
Liked On: 03-10-2024, 10:17 PM
Just my observations. I work at the port, its a very good barometer of the economy, it trends ahead of what everyone else feels/ sees / percieves. It swung real low from about March not much coming...
Liked On: 03-10-2024, 01:42 PM
I've refreshed the page twice by accident now after writing out my reply so I'll keep it short haha Thanks for the info 308. looking for a 12g under over mainly for trap nice to have features...
Liked On: 03-10-2024, 01:34 PM
Some thoughts on hunter class shoots. Firstly; over many years culling, NRA and NZDA shoots as well as clay competitions I observed that where competitions are concerned there are always a number...
Liked On: 03-10-2024, 09:49 AM
right the older birds -breast em good for salamis(If i eat two of them your fence paling knot holes wont be safe !sausages bloody excellent robust full of flavour unlike the insipid shit seen in...
Liked On: 03-10-2024, 01:10 AM
Best work story: Yesterday there were three Canada Goose on a pond in QEII Covenant which I do best control on. Worked my way in close to about 40 and whacked all three. Then I left site to go and...
Liked On: 03-10-2024, 01:06 AM
So I sat in on a call today with my associate while he spoke to a gentleman from the FSA he could not have been more apologetic, for what had occurred previously, he told there had been mistakes...
Liked On: 02-10-2024, 11:47 PM
Reminds me of taking some guys for a hunt on my farm at Whangamomona. We got caught by dark and had no torch. There was a 700 meter bush ridge we had to navigate and half way along it was a razor...
Liked On: 02-10-2024, 06:55 PM
Many many many years ago a family friend took me for a hunt in kaimais. It got dark and going ok but I having shit of time in the supplejack,then found a large hole in front of me so called out for...
Liked On: 02-10-2024, 03:00 PM
Have done a few over the years... the most epic was heading up the pike to lake wilmot, I wanted to get across the upperpike and out to big bay before a forcast deluge... pitch black, lots of mud , a...
Liked On: 02-10-2024, 08:41 AM