Collecting this tomorrow. .243 Tikka varmint re-barreled. 20" Criterion barrel. 1:7 twist. Contoured slightly heavier than standard Tikka. Currently Ive got 80grn ELDX and 80 Targex to try -...
Liked On: 25-03-2025, 09:53 PM
Went for a wander in the ruahines yesterday in apiti area was all quiet but I sent a few roars out and got 2 stags going pretty well in 2 different catchments, got to within 20 yards of both but made...
Liked On: 22-03-2025, 04:26 PM
Evening all, my wife and I absolutely love mushrooms and thrse have been popping up on our lawn. Just want to check if these are a safe variety as we often have alsorts of funny fungus growing and...
Liked On: 20-03-2025, 06:28 PM
Pest control on one of my crops…270958
Liked On: 20-03-2025, 06:21 PM
No I have seen them stand on their hind legs like a feral goat. I have fixed plenty of ornamental trees ruined by Moose browse too.
Liked On: 19-03-2025, 08:13 PM
Not NZ but these were the best fallow head I've had this season (Englandshire!) 270749 270747 270750 270751
Liked On: 16-03-2025, 10:18 PM
270709 I finally get to post in one of these threads! First stag for the pup too. Very chuffed 170m with the 308 150gr SST
Liked On: 16-03-2025, 10:17 PM
270704 First Cham for me, touching 9" on the long side. Spotted at 600m and closed in to 150m, the 7mm08 did the rest.
Liked On: 16-03-2025, 10:17 PM
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Liked On: 16-03-2025, 10:16 PM
270684 8 inch buck. First one I've shot solo. He was scarparing away and stood on a bluff looking down at me. 405y away and his hooks looked bigger by the 30 degree angle . 1 shot with the...
Liked On: 16-03-2025, 10:16 PM
After purchasing my first magnum - 300 win mag 18 months ago, agonising over load dev to get an accurate load to meet expectation and a lot of practice at the range at distance, took the rifle up...
Liked On: 16-03-2025, 10:15 PM
Shot this stunning pre-roar stag last Friday. After 17.5km and 1500 vertical meters in the tops the day before, I came back to the hut down in the valley. I woke up early and went for a walk to a...
Liked On: 15-03-2025, 06:21 PM
Real quick measure on length has him at roughly 26.5”. He’s lacking some overall length and width and really should have been left to try grow another year or two. Two more years he would have been a...
Liked On: 15-03-2025, 06:20 PM
Heard a few hee haws, single calls and a red roar yesterday morning. Managed to knock this guy over with my 7mm SAUM when he popped out at 645metres.
Liked On: 14-03-2025, 05:58 PM
270491270493270494270495270496270498270499270500270501 Not many words but a few pics of some of my summer adventures.
Liked On: 12-03-2025, 05:57 PM