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:thumbsup:your a very humble man Thar good on you
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They really are. Yeah he's been working around the world and came back for the Covid era. Stayed on his yacht here in the harbor below my house. Flew out to Germany and then Sri Lanka for work just...
Liked On: 15-10-2021, 08:04 PM
He was a character alright. I first met him when he was living behind the rubbish tip at Toko. He moved into an old house up in the farm. We would always drop in and give him a pair of shoes and some...
Liked On: 15-10-2021, 08:03 PM
Wonderful pics! He was character all right. That velvet stag Im holding (above) was over the top in the Managahao from the biv up the creek. Carried it right back to Rider's house.
Liked On: 15-10-2021, 08:03 PM
Time_out Much later than the time you mention I had many a pleasant trip fishing the Tokomaru with dry fly and nymph and took some beautiful brown trout. Catch and release because the resident...
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A good title for your thread Micky Duck. This is one of the men that I will always remember as a “real good man” – Henry Irwin who lived in the bush behind Tokomaru just south of Palmerston North –...
Liked On: 15-10-2021, 08:02 PM
My old meat hunting days gave me a great dislike for Swanndris. Nothing colder or miserable than the wind whipping into a wet Swanndri on the Ruahine tops while trudging back to camp. Brno .222 ...
Liked On: 15-10-2021, 08:02 PM
The books by Joff Thompson are classics, recounting culling and shooting for skins in the era before meat hunting. Anyway, here is a wee anecdote from yours truly. I was a new boy on a...
Liked On: 15-10-2021, 08:01 PM
I shot deer for a good part of my income for a couple of years during the 70's. I left shepherding to do it and casual mustering & shearing, and the first deer I shot I got more than a week's...
Liked On: 15-10-2021, 08:00 PM
Bill Black was simply amazing what he did,who he rescued etc.A wizard in my book,,only ever met him twice and that was brief. I got to know his shooter Jimmy Kane at one stage through another ol...
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Recently read 'I did it my way' by Bill Black who passed away in July last year. Tells many stories of his young meat hunting days, learning to fly, dodgy shit, scary shit and the many SAR operations...
Liked On: 15-10-2021, 07:59 PM
First, I stress that I AM NOT suggesting anything. BUT your "little remote village" reminded me of a T shirt I saw back in Jaffasville some years ago, emblazoned . "Your Village called. They...
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People used to say about the little remote village I come from "where men are men and women are wanted".
Liked On: 15-10-2021, 07:59 PM