Took my 12 yr old grandson out on a guided meat hunt Monday night for his first deer. Using my Zastava 243, handloads, off a bipod at 154.6m. Perfect chest shot! 14mth maiden Fallow hind. Yum! ...
Liked On: 28-02-2024, 11:50 PM
Wife and I needed to upgrade our 2008 Nissan K/C F/D manual to do a month towing 1.7 tonne caravan on South Island trip. Bought a mint 2019 Mazda king cab? flat deck auto and had a great trip....
Liked On: 28-02-2024, 11:38 PM
honestly Thar what I would do if I had 30K to spend after driving Hi Lux for 30 years the best was the 2.8 4 door with beam front axle ( as opposed to the next 3.0L with wishbone front) now get one...
Liked On: 28-02-2024, 01:35 PM
The Colenso area has quite a bit of limestone in it. Which makes the base of any slip VERY fertile. Was always good pickings if you knew the areas to hunt. Shot my first 8 pointer in there on the...
Liked On: 28-02-2024, 12:40 AM
I'm planning on moving to South Island, but based on the replies so far I think the best course of action will be to sell it and get an A category rifle instead. Seems to be more trouble than it's...
Liked On: 27-02-2024, 03:43 PM
Will be out pretty much every weekend from the second half of March til end of April. The biggest downside to my current job is that Feb-April is by far the busiest period of the year for my team, so...
Liked On: 27-02-2024, 09:09 AM
Went for a weekend mission up on to the Mokai range via the new/old public access through Mokai station, its a real slog from the carpark up through the farm and then an even steeper climb up onto...
Liked On: 27-02-2024, 09:02 AM
As in what have you not loaded, I forgot to put the powder in one of the cases and the primer drove the projectile out, while I was mucking around the prey absconded and as I tried to put another...
Liked On: 27-02-2024, 08:48 AM
It's a matter of whether they will group? I know that both the 22 hornets favour the vmax, and from now on I will only use boat tail projectiles, much easier to reload.
Liked On: 27-02-2024, 08:46 AM
Another all night session with alan last night, got home about 8:15am. I shot 1, Alan knocked over 204 for a total that wasn't predicted after some of the others only got something like 84 from the...
Liked On: 26-02-2024, 08:20 AM
Exactly. Also been used extensively in Africa over the years. Don’t overthink it. 223 has accounted for untold deer in NZ so 6.5x55 isn’t going to have any trouble. A mate doesn’t have any problems...
Liked On: 26-02-2024, 08:17 AM
No season no limit for Canada geese, has been that way for a while now
Liked On: 26-02-2024, 07:23 AM
252 geese on the deck for 5 shooters yesterday. Won't be topping that tally for a while. 422 geese down this month, has been unreal hunting.
Liked On: 25-02-2024, 10:46 AM
Ill just shoot hinds and yearlings for the freezer.Leave the stags for any one else.
Liked On: 25-02-2024, 09:23 AM
Thanks for all the feedback and pointers for the next time I'm up there, it's very much appreciated. I will definitely be going back!
Liked On: 20-02-2024, 09:07 PM