I don't contribute much to this fantastic community as I don't typically have much to share. I'm a bush hunter and my starting position when I think I'm close to a deer (sound or sight) is to tell...
Liked On: 15-02-2024, 05:12 PM
I wouldn't overthink it for closer ranges - 275m with my data is 1.3MIL for flat and 1.0 for -30 degrees. That is 34 vs 26cm. Most people are very poor at judging slope - if you are not...
Liked On: 15-02-2024, 03:26 PM
As an easy to understand rule, what effects the elevation is the horizontal length the projectile travels, as this is the part theat gravity, working perpendicular to the earths surface has to work...
Liked On: 14-02-2024, 07:46 PM
Best protein and sugar content, that’s what they are after. Depending on their environment this could be grass or where available plant leaves or other things. Shelter and food, that’s where you find...
Liked On: 12-02-2024, 09:13 PM
I've never got my head around deer and grass. In the Tararuas around Smith creek and Tutuwai hut the grass looks like someones mowed it using the lowest setting. In the Aorangis the grass is above...
Liked On: 12-02-2024, 09:12 PM
I stopped believing the whole sunny faces thing after I was watched a hind and it’s fawn all morning eating and chewing cud on a clearing, they spent hours there all morning and then as soon as the...
Liked On: 12-02-2024, 09:12 PM
grandpamac And even later than that. I bought my first centrefire in 1980; a year after I left school. It was an ex WW2 K98 8x57. It cost around $70 and I had to put it on layby because my butchery...
Liked On: 11-02-2024, 08:57 PM
You can tell he was a rich kid, us poor buggers could only afford a pair of jocks.
Liked On: 11-02-2024, 08:54 PM
as an Ex Ranger with many years of patrolling the tracks are not your worry as hunters - its at the huts where you may meet the three most dangerous types as a hunter 1) the vegan karen 2) the anti...
Liked On: 11-02-2024, 07:48 PM
As long as you have a hunting permit, of course you can. You have just as much right to be there as anyone else.
Liked On: 11-02-2024, 07:46 PM
My howa 223 is about 2000 rounds down, never had anything but the odd bit of CRC or Breakfree down the barrel and cleaned with a bore snake with bronze bristles removed, end of most days. Used about...
Liked On: 09-02-2024, 03:41 PM
Over time, a layer of carbon and copper fouling builds up in the barrel. This fouling can help condition the bore, filling in microscopic imperfections and providing a consistent surface for the...
Liked On: 09-02-2024, 03:39 PM
I’ll admit right now that I just can’t shoot heavy recoiling rifles anymore , in fact to be honest I couldn’t shoot them back then , but I tried convincing myself I could . The biggest Caliber I own...
Liked On: 08-02-2024, 05:58 PM
I believe sometimes we wear blinkers when looking at the past. IM TOLD when the 1080 carrots were dropped in here...one of the first times it had been done..the place stank and was covered in deer...
Liked On: 08-02-2024, 05:55 PM
From 1931 til the 1970s, first Department of Internal Affairs then the Forest Service (after 1955) killed deer under government control programmes largely motivated by competition with farm livestock...
Liked On: 08-02-2024, 05:52 PM