The books by Joff Thompson are classics, recounting culling and shooting for skins in the era before meat hunting. Anyway, here is a wee anecdote from yours truly. I was a new boy on a...
Liked On: 15-10-2021, 04:14 PM
My old meat hunting days gave me a great dislike for Swanndris. Nothing colder or miserable than the wind whipping into a wet Swanndri on the Ruahine tops while trudging back to camp. Brno .222 ...
Liked On: 15-10-2021, 04:14 PM
Thanks for the advice, I ended up going down Clements and dropped an animal about 20 mins from the car. First deer in very very long time due to being a bit shit at hunting but I don't let that stop...
Liked On: 15-10-2021, 07:36 AM
Ask Chris Crosse about the october snowstorm that had them hutbound. Mid to Late November but really doesnt fire until december
Liked On: 15-10-2021, 07:35 AM
My contribution. I reckon Venison Hunters is the best book I’ve read on that era. But… About 40 years ago I was really lucky to spend a weekend with an ex West Coast culler, Selwyn Bucknell. He is...
Liked On: 15-10-2021, 07:30 AM
pack n rifle...good keen man.....great NZ hunting stories...memories of NZ derstalking..pretty much anything written by Tony Orman....Rex Forrester...Charlie Janes...Brian Burdon....
Liked On: 14-10-2021, 09:28 PM
Ahh yes. Memories of steep hills, leaky rumpty huts, even rumptier bivvies, heavy Anson D-ring boots festooned with hobnails and tricounies, Mountain Mule tanker frame packs, white spirit stoves,...
Liked On: 14-10-2021, 01:49 PM
Do stories recounted to you by old cullers and meat hunters count?
Liked On: 14-10-2021, 10:33 AM
Ducked out in front of matakana for drift fish on the sand. Wind was blowing 20 kn off shore so we tucked in close shallow and burleyed up. Awesome few hours of fishing, snapper galore on stayline,...
Liked On: 11-10-2021, 09:20 PM
i brought one for $100 from BP last week , 10,000 mAH . we were in the bush for a few days. Charged our 2 iphones and gps a total of 5 times combined and still had 20% left. I have one thats 5...
Liked On: 11-10-2021, 07:58 PM
Greetings sheep, To me the best way to sight in at 200 yards (or 200 metres in my case) is to put the target at 200 yards. Otherwise you will only be guessing. If you expect to shoot at longer...
Liked On: 28-09-2021, 06:43 PM
First trip to the Tongariro for the season. Mate and I spent a few hours flailing away. Managed 12 between us. Only a couple freshies, rest were spent jacks in poor condition. 179297 179298
Liked On: 21-09-2021, 05:46 PM
Stag, If my memory is good you went up to about 51.5 gns of 2209 and 53.5 gns of 2213 behind a 140 A max. I pushed up to your loads but they were too hot for me.
Liked On: 20-09-2021, 11:17 AM
After talking with FWF over the past year or so, they've stressed that they should be the ones doing the culling, not hunters in the ballot, so didn't want to encourage people to try and do that work...
Liked On: 07-09-2021, 05:56 PM
First cook is covered with tinfoil @150c for 2-2.5 hours with some stock and herbs or spices or whatever you like in a dish sized not too big. Lots of scoreing on the skin but not too deep... just...
Liked On: 31-08-2021, 06:16 PM