My hunting mate from Auckland was down for a conference, and we thought we would capitalize on him being in my neck of the woods, and head into the hills for a hunt. We had been planning this for...
Liked On: 31-05-2019, 06:12 PM
Another electric fence story . . . I had taken our VW van to get a couple of young pigs. Not wanting them loose in the van, I contained them in a barrel in the middle of the van. Upon arriving...
Liked On: 27-05-2019, 11:38 AM
Crawled out of my Hammock at 2am last weekend to go take a suddenly very urgent nocturnal poo. Went wandering off into the broken Wilding pine regrowth on flat country in nothing but long johns and...
Liked On: 24-05-2019, 03:22 PM
Best show off my head as well. First my son's then my head. Sons is a typical inland Otago head, a little on the small side but a nice 12 pointer for a teenager's first head. Mine was a large...
Liked On: 23-05-2019, 01:52 PM
Block 4 can be hard hunting. It is a mix of 10yr old short pines and some areas of mature pines. There are no 'open' areas like cut overs to hunt. Block 4 is bounded by Ototoa Rd on its eastern...
Liked On: 22-05-2019, 07:36 PM
This thing took off in front of me this afternoon, I made a snap decision to shoot it and as it went through a clearing I managed to get a shot in it on the run (I don't normally do that!). Eva...
Liked On: 22-05-2019, 06:19 PM
I agree, perceptions do matter.............. How is this for perception. I have been a member of the Woodhill committee for well over 14 years. I have given up at least 6 weekends each year to...
Liked On: 22-05-2019, 02:51 PM
Finally figured out how to post a photo, not too flash at the techo stuff. Shot the above 14 over the roar
Liked On: 20-05-2019, 03:38 PM
111691 This was another one, I thought he was a 12. Still a cool looking animal
Liked On: 20-05-2019, 03:37 PM
Yep - someone shot her! :P I heard of a dairy farmer that had several calves die over a week or two. He had no idea what was causing it and the vet said the carcasses were too far gone to be of...
Liked On: 13-08-2017, 02:19 PM
I wrote a couple paragraphs but nah, i'm not touching that. Sorry.
Liked On: 07-06-2017, 06:58 PM
Stags still roaring hard here! Checked out a new spot this weekend. Saw a lot of deer. Looked over a fair few Stags and eventually took this one. Not the biggest or oldest seen but a good combo of...
Liked On: 18-04-2017, 01:07 AM
Up at the rallies over the weekend. Went for a walk on Saturday morning with the rifle and only saw hinds. Saturday night thought I would show my daughter the deer I had seen that morning, so we...
Liked On: 16-04-2017, 10:12 PM
Me and the hound went out for a recon trip and found out that the stags were roaring all night until 8am, 20+ stags in our area. Most of the hinds didn't have stags with them. I wish a had a decent...
Liked On: 18-03-2017, 02:15 PM
Shot right on last light at 30 yards with the 7mm08. Dropped the range finder when sneaking in and had to decide wether to spend the last few minutes of light looking for it or carrying on with the...
Liked On: 15-03-2017, 04:56 PM