Just had a few out to clean....a 66 (made in 66) factory engraved rifle in 3006,a type b in 3006,a typeb model k in 250 savage, a type a magnum mauser, non sqaure bridge action,28 inch barrel in 280...
Liked On: 04-08-2024, 09:07 PM
A very handsome Lee Speed by Bonehill. Folding leaf sights behind a fixed V,with a ramp sight to Finnish. Border engraved with dust cover and magazine cut off. Tight and slick,a real gentleman's...
Liked On: 21-07-2024, 09:27 AM
Just been going over some guns today with a bit of oil and noticed this old girl was 100 last year , made in 1923 , I brought this rifle a couple years ago off a gentlemen who’s father brought it in...
Liked On: 07-07-2024, 08:58 AM
I think he has a half stock, not the full stock stutzen with a retaining band
Liked On: 25-06-2024, 07:46 PM
I got a whole beast done the other day. Butcher charged $700, and that included 40kg sausages. The animal cost $1300. So $2000 all up. 300kg hanging carcass. Being very careful not to use the...
Liked On: 21-06-2024, 08:38 PM
This ol pic was an old English job..could get three ti four wee Fallow tied on with a push lol. The second pic is a tad later on but on this particular trip over several days I managed quite a few...
Liked On: 24-05-2024, 09:24 PM
A couple of pics skin hunting pre-dating my meat hunting. With the old 303's. I was just a kid (pic not of me). Mate Bill's foresight was a lump of filed to shape solder. In the Puketios. You can see...
Liked On: 23-05-2024, 09:26 PM
Nothin like tidays tussock hoppers that's a fact. We did however own early Landies later on along with different types of motor bikes..the buggy was made from an ol Austin,seen here near the...
Liked On: 23-05-2024, 07:54 PM
Taking a quick break on the main drag in Te Anau after a sneaky all nighter up the Mavora area. Both these ol buddies would be laughing their heads off if they thought that one day in the future all...
Liked On: 23-05-2024, 07:53 PM
Shit my back n shoulders are aching looking at that..nice. I recall a coupla mates and my self once packed in three twelve volt acid batteries...one each pluss gear,bloody stupid fi sure but hey we...
Liked On: 21-05-2024, 09:24 AM
those Matawai bush rats - not the sorts to invite home to mum for a beer - mate rang the boys are down the Masonic - now the Masonic had been Gisbornes flashiest pub - long closed but then was...
Liked On: 20-05-2024, 12:45 PM
AB Higginson from the Bush. When I farmed out there I concurrently had 3 current and ex All Blacks as neighbours. I still have aspirations for being an AB.
Liked On: 20-05-2024, 11:28 AM
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, 09:26 AM
AF,s rh man for dpf Kaingaroa was Gordon Eastbury in the 60's and I dont know what teally happrnbed but he got himself drowned ijn the whirinaki. A search locsted his body but I was never able figure...
Liked On: 19-05-2024, 10:01 PM
Great times and hard case people. My first day meat hunting I earnt the equivalent of a weeks wages for the shepherds' job I chucked. I kept my dogs and mixed casual work with the hunting. Best...
Liked On: 19-05-2024, 07:00 PM