234741
Liked On: 06-10-2023, 06:37 PM
I bought this as a kit set from a place in Levin. It's in a very wet climate, all timber and ply construction and after 3 years no sign of deterioration. Stellar. 233087
Liked On: 14-09-2023, 10:51 AM
Cant anyone just remember where your going and where you have been ???? It painful finding 178,899,392,546 pieces of plastic stuck to things, bad enough when it was tin lids and alloy squares or...
Liked On: 04-09-2023, 10:19 AM
Physically the same as shearers ,builders ,fencers and many of the professions that require manual labour. Finacially It was the same as any job ,some pissed it up ,some bought houses ,some bought...
Liked On: 25-08-2023, 11:11 AM
The whole animal/lungs requirement killed it for me as a foot hunter. Most of my dockets went through under "non deplumes". I don't recall paying tax. Later when farming and catching deer I sent...
Liked On: 25-08-2023, 11:09 AM
But don't ever forget that Davey sold gun owners down the river after the mosque shooting. He may have had a great life and written a book but a sell-out is still a sell-out. That book isnt on my...
Liked On: 18-08-2023, 06:49 PM
C'mon guys, the thread is titled Excellent books by Kiwis...not excrement books... One that hasn't been mentioned yet I think is the seminal read by Mike Bennett on the Venison industry "The...
Liked On: 18-08-2023, 06:47 PM
Bought my Sako Vixen .222 from the NZFS in the early 70's for $180 if my memory is correct. Still got it. Had it re-blued and re-chequered a few years ago and restored the accuracy by cutting an inch...
Liked On: 15-08-2023, 11:18 AM
Which is better 222 or 223? 222 Remington performance is only slightly less than the more common 223 Remington. A 55 grain 222 Remington round travels at 3,095 feet per second with 1,170 foot-pounds...
Liked On: 15-08-2023, 11:17 AM
you were lucky to get one of the .222 vixens from FS I started in 1975 culling -did my six months one had to do before ordering and all gone - now comparing .222 with .223 on deer I am going to say...
Liked On: 15-08-2023, 11:04 AM
For sure. I digitized some old trout fishing vids I had off of my sony mini dv camera. Cost me about $4.5k I think back in '99 or 2000. Took me about 3 years to pay that off on interest free hire...
Liked On: 04-08-2023, 10:27 AM
My contribution to the thread on newly built huts,but this model quickly in the space of 3 months got relegated to 'old huts' status.A relocatable 2 manner I built when doing winter goat work in the...
Liked On: 20-07-2023, 12:07 PM
Another minter of a day. Decided to go over to another adjacent property and look for deer in the late afternoon. Found them no problem, but they were a long way away, on the other side of the gorge....
Liked On: 13-06-2023, 11:15 AM
Despite shooting my first white tail in 5 trips to the island, this really was the highlight of the trip. Hope you enjoy it as much as I did. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n85D31_yp7o
Liked On: 13-06-2023, 11:04 AM
Brian and I were asked to help knock some numbers back on a property that we hunt. 5 or 6 years ago the population was predominately Reds but slowly and surely the Fallow have been taking over. To...
Liked On: 03-06-2023, 03:28 PM