Did I trip in there hunt/fish probably 8-9yrs back. Heaps of nice trout in the river and plenty of deer once you get an hour or 2 away from the hut. Lots of hinds, saw bugger all stags. I guess the...
Liked On: 01-10-2024, 07:10 PM
All those photos are looking towards the Gold Creek Block. If my memory is right the ridge in the 3rd photo is the boundary to the Mangataramea block and Gold Creek on the true right of the creek and...
Liked On: 01-10-2024, 07:10 PM
Tahr is correct. Plenty of little bush gullies that are worth sneaking along first and last light. Or if you prefer, get into the bush and have a look. Or if sitting and glassing is your thing then...
Liked On: 01-10-2024, 07:10 PM
All I know is that in the meat days it was a great block to accidentally wander into from the Boyds strip. :) I recall nice little gullys holding good cover that you could stalk the edges of. ...
Liked On: 01-10-2024, 07:10 PM
Probably 10 years since I've been in that block,think it was a winter trip coz it was bloody cold. Good hut,had a flushing toilet but no heating (I think helisika have put a gas heater there now?)...
Liked On: 01-10-2024, 07:10 PM
Micky Duck I'm trying to slow down but you know how it is, you get tired, lapse of concentration, tangled up in some f... bush lawyer you hadn't noticed right on the edge of the clearing $#@!%... ...
Liked On: 27-05-2024, 08:50 AM
7mm tragic slow down some more..when you think your going too slow your nearly right..as soon as you stumble..sit down and rest and look around....MOST of us will have either spooked or shot a deer...
Liked On: 27-05-2024, 08:49 AM
first off CHANGE YOUR ATTITUDE to a day out on the hill with your Dad. appreciate just spending time together..he wont be around forever appreciate just getting out of the house and out in fresh...
Liked On: 27-05-2024, 08:47 AM
I always pack my day bag that night, so either from camp or hut its - Wake up - Get up & get changed - grab bag & go (sometimes coffee then go) I find packing your gear the night before lets you...
Liked On: 22-05-2024, 12:58 PM
With just three days left before the private block gets sold, I had been requested by the current landowner to bomb them up, and so out I went on a solo night mission armed with my 7mm rem mag, night...
Liked On: 21-05-2024, 08:57 AM
What about putting poison signs up. 1080 in progress or something. Make up poison sounding name, and print up official looking signs. "Warning hydrofluride MX trial poison baits laid in area....
Liked On: 16-05-2024, 08:46 AM
Reminds me of issues my father-in-law had many years ago. He brought a rough block at the end of a dead-end road which gave access to the harbour and many people used this access point to get...
Liked On: 16-05-2024, 08:45 AM
We had 'trouble' with trespassing / illegal hunting on our Murchison farm. Gave the pig hunting rights to a bloke who was feared by all, on the condition that he kept the poachers off. No more...
Liked On: 16-05-2024, 08:42 AM
A mate experienced that on his farm up the back of Taranaki. Put out nailed boards. They came back and did quite a bit of damage to property and killing stock. Not deterred he put out boards...
Liked On: 16-05-2024, 08:41 AM
Was driving the Lindis Pass about a two months ago (early morning on the way to go hunting) and had 4 reds run right across the road in front of us. Had to slam on the anchors. Quite cool to see
Liked On: 16-05-2024, 08:36 AM