well one night after they had polished off a flogon of sheery before going to bed....the old lady forgot to take the pill...nine months later I popped out with the urge to hunt firmly planted in the...
Liked On: 16-03-2020, 09:04 PM
Grew up around hunting of a different kind and before the UK government banned hunting with dogs. We used to follow the East Kent fox hunt when it was in our area by bicycle as we were far too poor...
Liked On: 16-03-2020, 09:03 PM
My father used to do duckshooting with a group of mates on the home farm in Hawkes Bay, but that was the only hunting in the family. Then when I was 10 Dad sold the farm and bought a farm with a...
Liked On: 16-03-2020, 09:03 PM
Longer rods give you more bank clearance as well, so you can avoid weed/branches/bushes at your feet. Longer rods also make it harder to avoid overhanging branches. Everything is a tradeoff and it's...
Liked On: 16-03-2020, 03:04 PM
My father and uncles told us stories when we were kids, of their hunting exploits when they were growing up on the West Coast. Deer and pigs made up the majority of the stories, and they were always...
Liked On: 16-03-2020, 03:03 PM
I grew up in outback Austria we didn't have playstations or cell phones back then I didn't and still don't to this day watch tv back then it was eat your breakfast then got told to piss off outside...
Liked On: 16-03-2020, 02:15 PM
I was brought up with it. My old man got me hooked on fishing, hunting and shooting. I have a ton of admiration for people that are into it without the family support a lot of us had. You guys really...
Liked On: 16-03-2020, 01:52 PM
I was a fat kid playing way to many video games and one was a hunting one, I had been shooting bunnies and possums for as long as i can remember, Loved the challenge of big game hunting and the...
Liked On: 16-03-2020, 01:09 PM
love shooting - never had a chance to do it as a kid, no one in my family hunted, dad was in the army but never had firearms at home. I spent some time in the army as well which was my first...
Liked On: 16-03-2020, 01:08 PM
My Dad introduced me to it. He was share milking on a farm out Piako road. Took me down the end to shot ducks standing under some plumb trees. The next time was out the back of Motumaoho on the...
Liked On: 16-03-2020, 01:08 PM
Dad really wasn't a hunter but he was a farmer, and like most cockys he had a .22 and shotgun. One night he took me out to a pond as a wee kid (6-7 years old), we stayed out until after dark (!)...
Liked On: 16-03-2020, 01:07 PM
Slightly off thread, but we boomers had it easy..I recall going into my local police station in school uniform in about 1963 and telling the cop at the desk I wanted a permit to buy a .22 rifle ( no...
Liked On: 16-03-2020, 11:03 AM
By the time I bought my Ruger M77 in 1990 they were down to 4 weeks wages (Paid $900 second hand and was earning $225 per week... with 3 hours OT each week) Sold it to my brother a few years later...
Liked On: 16-03-2020, 09:06 AM
Greetings All, What a blast from the past. It's hardly surprising that we boomers regard, with some amusement, the younger generations sighting in dead on at 100 and dialing for everything beyond...
Liked On: 16-03-2020, 08:23 AM
works at most ranges if you are a chest shooting/hilar area type of person.....the whole 8" kill zone thing goes over head of some folk,the best way Ive heard it describes is a bit like this... ...
Liked On: 15-03-2020, 09:02 PM