yes the pesticide declaration - now I might have the facts slightly wrong as to who was at fault -its a while ago - but I remember the shit hitting the fan when a seller got all clear from landowner...
Liked On: 21-05-2024, 11:21 PM
mate and I lumped a big old boar and a small stag out of the Waioeka gorge - took a while to get the deer so the pig smelled well off basically when we got to road next day - definetly whiffy -...
Liked On: 21-05-2024, 11:20 PM
yes they did but that did not last that long and we had to sell with heart lungs and liver attached - but for those who are younger and did not go thru those days it did not last long - the days we...
Liked On: 21-05-2024, 11:18 PM
as a young shepherd I made $20 a week and had to work sat morning as well - I paid for dog vet bills saddle costs etc - but one good deer sold was twice my earnings -man I hunted hard it was good...
Liked On: 21-05-2024, 11:16 PM
many of us will debate that for hours - put a dry rag thru barrel- take to range - have an accurate shooter put 3 shots thru - that will show what the rifle is doing - in real terms - any more is...
Liked On: 21-05-2024, 10:01 PM
Thank you Trout - logic - most of my zeroing is one shot to check - that's with my main hunting rifles - they dont move - they know they will be sold if they play up - then I play with my target...
Liked On: 21-05-2024, 09:08 PM
get your self a 12 gauge and shoot a small deer say a fallow with it using a solid slug that will be close to it - most of us just want to hear the story as we cant be bothered with that kind of...
Liked On: 21-05-2024, 05:47 PM
I would have used caution there to not his land to give permission
Liked On: 20-05-2024, 10:50 PM
the guy who ran the Tiniroto pub and chiller was a cunning publican - we would leave Gisborne friday night and hunt Te Urewera Nat Park behind Papuni station up the Ruakituri and then sell at...
Liked On: 20-05-2024, 10:35 PM
they were gentleman - got to know Ian Kirkpatrick alittle - asked him who was the scariest bugger he had encountered on the field ( one does tend to ask people like that dumb questions ) he said...
Liked On: 20-05-2024, 10:28 PM
best weight I can remember was a mate sold a stag from Te Kumi right up the east coast 404 lb sold shot out in the paddock in velvet - most whole stags we sold were in the 130 -230 lb mark 230...
Liked On: 20-05-2024, 10:26 PM
yes the old FS took a poor view of its hunters selling deer - despite the fact that many of the shall we say upper management got away with it - we did give the loggers at Willow flat deer and they...
Liked On: 20-05-2024, 10:07 PM
best weight I can remember was a mate sold a stag from Te Kumi right up the east coast 404 lb sold shot out in the paddock in velvet - most whole stags we sold were in the 130 -230 lb mark 230...
Liked On: 20-05-2024, 09:00 PM
the roughest had to be the old Murupara pub one kept ones back to the wall and no eye ball no one
Liked On: 20-05-2024, 04:59 PM
Yes would be Waimaha station thats where the Hangaroa comes out of Te Urewera a lot of early native logging went on in the big basin in the Hangaroa that was NZFS land
Liked On: 20-05-2024, 04:58 PM