Had a few planned hunts put on ice while under the latest Covid restrictions limiting where we were could day hunt, so the Sako Vixen .222 has been earning it's keep on plenty of goats and 3 Fallow...
Liked On: 30-11-2021, 09:01 PM
That same shop in Marton set me off on the 222 road, 100 rounds of Winchester Western and a Savage bolt action with side mounted scope. Rifle long ago traded but still reload those cases. 222 my go...
Liked On: 30-11-2021, 09:01 PM
I’m just using standard sako factory ammo. 50 gn softpoint. Kills well.
Liked On: 30-11-2021, 09:00 PM
Three from three. Was going away for three nights but had more than enough meat after two 183836 183837
Liked On: 30-11-2021, 09:00 PM
Havnt been out since the last hunt with Pengy when we were successful so was pretty keen to get out this weekend. Weather forecast was crap, wind, rain, most people would of stayed in bed but i was...
Liked On: 14-11-2021, 06:33 PM
Later in my time Consolidated Traders would only take deer if they had their ears on. Our buyer always had some spare sets of ears we could put on with a safety pin if for some reason the carcass was...
Liked On: 13-11-2021, 08:38 PM
Here it is. As much as I’m a fan of suppressors I think it would be sacrilegious to cut this - 163079 163080 163082 163083 163084
Liked On: 11-11-2021, 08:22 PM
I stared with a Anschutz 222 and then a vixen turned up in the local sport shop so i sold an under & over shotgun plus the Anschutz to buy it, it was a lot of money at the time but I’ve never...
Liked On: 11-11-2021, 08:20 PM
Right we are officially on the board. I shot this young stag right on last light yesterday evening. DOC land. I’m just using sako 50gn soft point ammo. 40 m into the neck and he dropped like...
Liked On: 08-11-2021, 07:29 PM
This trip was planned for the first week of the school holidays but work got in the way again and then the second weekend of the school holidays but I ended up working right through so I could take...
Liked On: 25-10-2021, 07:11 PM
With the long weekend thought it was time caught up with my good mate and fellow forum member Pengy. Decided to take the friday off and if he was keen do a overnighter in a well known spot and try...
Liked On: 24-10-2021, 08:22 PM
Docking, drafting, lambing beats, crutching, milking etc - all the farmboy jobs. Old man was a dab hand at docking. Dock anything that moved. We had a farm tomcat that was getting a bit...
Liked On: 24-10-2021, 06:19 PM
The whole huge area from Tutukau mill way south past Opa site, and north to Titiraupenga and Pureora forest was still dense bush in 50s and early 60s. Sawmills took out the big trees in our area,...
Liked On: 20-10-2021, 07:21 PM
When men were men. Well..here's couple of hard case 1960 stories from the kids' perspective ...Even the little hunters were tough! Tale 1: Our farm backed onto huge bush area and in 1960s...
Liked On: 19-10-2021, 10:17 PM
I used to haunt that area during the early '70s we called the Bullring. Hauled a lot of deer out of there up the steep part of the track in, where only those with a winch would venture down. Winches...
Liked On: 19-10-2021, 10:05 PM