Great story and photos, bloody good read. Thanks
Liked On: 15-07-2023, 05:14 PM
Reader beware - a long read but stuck recuperating after some surgery so a good way to burn some time finishing this yarn I had partially finished a few months ago. A brief window amongst family...
Liked On: 15-07-2023, 05:13 PM
Got caught up there in a blizzard up there back in the 70's. Wet snow is something a lot of overseas visitors struggle to understand. On a good day you can see both coasts from the Tops of the...
Liked On: 15-07-2023, 05:02 PM
Lovely spot up there! Last time i was up there i shot a scrubby stag on the southern face of the triangle turn off, i should have spotted him earlier from the high point as i had taken a spell and...
Liked On: 15-07-2023, 04:59 PM
If there was one hut I hated, it was the triangle. Not the hut itself but the mind tricks the walk back up to tops played on me. There is a continual number of benches with skylines. You never ever...
Liked On: 15-07-2023, 04:56 PM
Great read boys. Wonder how overgrown the ngamoko range is now, that leather wood seemed to creep up n up every yr, that was in 68.
Liked On: 15-07-2023, 04:54 PM
Bloody awesome, thanks for cutting those tracks Tahr! When we first started hunting up there we would blindly charge off into the bush near the tops and it was a great relief to bump into the odd...
Liked On: 15-07-2023, 04:54 PM
Well Bruce , reading your post brought back memories of my time in that area , hunted there from age 16, walk in Friday night ,sleep on the floor of the original ski hut ,up before daybreak walk back...
Liked On: 15-07-2023, 04:50 PM
is that a young Tilly I spot in those photos??????
Liked On: 15-07-2023, 04:47 PM
This is in very good weather in 2015 Queens Birthday (as it was then). I can show these spots because we didn't see any deer but they do show several sunny areas with no snow. 228648 ...
Liked On: 15-07-2023, 04:47 PM
Had a mate get exposure in the wet snow above triangle. It was a battle to stop him sitting down. He was stuffed by the time we got back to Rangi hut but came right overnight in his sleeping bag....
Liked On: 15-07-2023, 04:46 PM
Living your best life mate
Liked On: 15-07-2023, 04:45 PM
Someone asked a question about this so I looked back at some old pics. I hunted the Ruahines a lot over the winters during the meat hunting era. By myself and with a mate. 45-50 odd years ago. ...
Liked On: 15-07-2023, 04:45 PM
Greetings Rup, A .308 not shooting well with AR2206H. The rifle must be possessed by demons. AR2206H has been my go to for the last 20 years in my .308 rifles. My M700 does not shoot the 150 grain...
Liked On: 09-07-2023, 10:58 PM
Well it's calibre dependant on the loss of fps plus the drop of say 24" to 20" it will be X amount of FPS per inch and from 20" to say 14.5" it will be X amount of FPS per inch. But as you have...
Liked On: 09-07-2023, 10:43 PM