strapping a gun to your backpack is the last thing you will want to do when bush bashing in Fiordland. Up on the tops, you could...but you also SHOULD be carrying it ready to shoot!
Liked On: 03-02-2023, 08:08 PM
Cripes, thats as good as it gets. Very nice.
Liked On: 03-02-2023, 07:27 PM
Pretty much agree. Except for the Carbon clown bit. From what I have seen these people had the foresight to see an opportunity and have or will do very well out of it. Good on them! They started...
Liked On: 02-02-2023, 08:38 AM
Managed to get away for an over nighter,had to be back home by 10.30am the next morning.Got to the riverbed by 9pm.Watched a nice area till after dark.Bugger nothing around,windy rainy night.Next...
Liked On: 20-01-2023, 07:10 PM
Took the boy (grandson) out to our hut yesterday for the night. Turned out that we hunted a block that had only been mustered the day before which is never a good idea. Any rate, seen nothin to shoot...
Liked On: 19-01-2023, 07:52 PM
DS 242 Done by Steve Barclay 214911 214912
Liked On: 19-01-2023, 05:34 PM
:roll::roll::roll: Of course they'll create a populist shadow portfolio. They'll leap at anything that might gain them votes. The real question is "what will they deliver?" Remember...
Liked On: 19-01-2023, 11:50 AM
Today I got up early and headed away for a hunt. left the old gal Meg at home in a sulk ,took young Poppy as both dogs together just isnt working,the old gal cant wind properly with young lass...
Liked On: 18-01-2023, 06:40 PM
Second year hunting; shoot anything you can carry. Worry about being a grumpy old man once you’ve shoot 100! Honestly you did the right thing. There’s miles to many deer around, they’re better in...
Liked On: 16-01-2023, 10:08 PM
Youtube vid of our overnighter for some venison. We ended with a nice fat stag to take home, have a watch if you've got nothing to do. Cheers https://youtu.be/p8IlA_PFxdU
Liked On: 16-01-2023, 04:51 PM
So went for my first walkabout for 2023 yesterday. Goal for the day was to try and find a clearing I had been told about. Up I was at zero dark thirty like most trips and quick stop at the local...
Liked On: 16-01-2023, 09:09 AM
With some of the good weather of the holidays, managed to get out on the central plateau for a wander with the rifle, hoping to bump into a young sika for the BBQ. I left the car in a crowded car...
Liked On: 15-01-2023, 10:34 AM
Stub was tapped M20x1.5mm for about 30mm at its muzzle end Now I stripped the donor barrel from a Swedish rolling block 12.7x42 1873 that was sporterised but had a 9/10 bore 214531 Work out...
Liked On: 15-01-2023, 10:16 AM
I got my first deer yesterday. A nice red stag. After two luckless day trips in the Southern Tararuas and one in the Aorangis, I went for another optimistic armed walk into the Tararuas. I had...
Liked On: 12-01-2023, 07:51 AM
Great thread, i grew up, a touch late for the meat hunting, but Dad was a culler, bridge builder and hut builder for NZFS, so lots intresting yarns when his work mates were about, I too, carted...
Liked On: 11-01-2023, 10:31 AM