Jeez mate what a charmed life you have had. Careful you don’t chip a tooth.
Liked On: 27-06-2021, 09:47 AM
Sixty eight now and to my surprise I out walked a much younger man around the hills on Thursday. That says more about how unfit he was than anything else though.
Liked On: 26-06-2021, 09:12 AM
Reality is deer have been domesticated in NZ for tens of years whereas sheep/cattle etc have being domesticated for thousands of yours..they’ve got a wee bit of catching up to do. I’d also imagine...
Liked On: 25-06-2021, 05:51 PM
Well, after much stress (for my gun smith thank you Grant!!) finally completed the most expensive bush gun I’ve ever had built, Barnard SMS action fluted bolt, meant to be a rem 700 drop in but it’s...
Liked On: 20-06-2021, 06:23 PM
Well, either a whole bunch of rural folk voted red, or they simply did not vote at all. Rural electorates that have been National stongholds for decades have all turned red... Otaki and Wairarapa...
Liked On: 15-06-2021, 06:48 PM
Ended up sucking it up and hunting in the morning rain. Ended up with a young little fallow. She and another girl were hunkered down in a dry twiggy area right beside a ridge with minimal feed around...
Liked On: 13-06-2021, 07:34 PM
Well as follows is how my month of a lifetime hunting sika in taupo worked out. Original post: https://www.nzhuntingandshooting.co.nz/f12/month-lifetime-taupo-roar-hunting-68234/ First off a huge...
Liked On: 11-06-2021, 05:38 PM
UPDATE had limbsaver fitted and went for a duck shoot tonight.... IM super impressed , the limbsaver took all the recoil out and its mint. On the negative side i missed about 7 ducks but smoked...
Liked On: 06-06-2021, 10:33 AM
Hey fellas, Managed to revisit some old stomping grounds this year. Surprisingly deer were a bit tricky to find, but we managed to track down enough to keep things interesting. Some massive...
Liked On: 31-05-2021, 04:06 PM
I wish I was in this position really. I used to shoot a property I would see 30 plus deer a night (phenomenonal numbers of deer for the region) while shooting rabbits. Owner was protective of the...
Liked On: 30-05-2021, 10:30 PM
There has been some discussion on here recently about the huge and damaging deer numbers in the Central North Island, and how recreational hunting isn’t having much of a controlling effect. If we’re...
Liked On: 23-05-2021, 09:29 PM
Not the most amazing quality photos but was an amazing memorable experience - spent an hour with these 3 Sika last year up close in the bush! 167800 167801 167802 167803
Liked On: 23-05-2021, 03:00 PM
I have a set of Mitutoyo manual verniers your welcome to have,just come and pick them up, 168213
Liked On: 23-05-2021, 10:28 AM
These are the leads I have, the small one does the more recent models of pretty much all Garmins, the bigger one on the right is for the old etrex . I’m just out of Hamilton and around most days, or...
Liked On: 22-05-2021, 09:17 PM
So I left home this morning at 6.15am to walk from Jacks Pass to the summit of Mt Isobel here in Hanmer. I left the Dunblane/Isobel top car park at 7am along with 3 others from Hanmer LandSAR to be...
Liked On: 22-05-2021, 09:14 PM