Went for a solo wander last night in North Canterbury. Deer coming onto a dairy farm from the scrubby hill behind. Group apparently took out about 15 in the last two weeks. After waiting for dark...
Liked On: 09-05-2024, 02:42 PM
I sold a few of my unfired Sakos to a forum member 3 or 4 years ago. My Finnwolf is the gap in the safe I miss the most. Unfired .308. 249241 249242 249243
Liked On: 02-05-2024, 05:32 PM
249227 Sako A1 rebarreled to 223
Liked On: 02-05-2024, 05:32 PM
One from the archive. The only Sako I have ever owned. A beautiful looking rifle but I never fired it and ended up selling it unfired. 249196 Left handed 85 in 243win.
Liked On: 02-05-2024, 05:31 PM
Vixen .222 with a Hugh Bradley barrel copying the factory original https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20240430/76a5ad0433fd62a0c023e7befde4f304.jpg Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk
Liked On: 30-04-2024, 09:20 PM
249140 A boy and his gun......Vixen .222 (Cant delete second image - definitely not a Sako :wtfsmilie:)
Liked On: 30-04-2024, 09:17 PM
Vixen 222 and red stag at Ruahine Corner, and we all took Sako 222s in for a week sika hunting this year and it nailed a small 8 and 2 hinds.249111
Liked On: 30-04-2024, 09:15 PM
Over the last 11 years I've shot and found 284 deer with a dog helping or a dog with me. For 10 years it was Tilly the wirehair pointer (258). Now it's Bella the Lab. She's 14 months old and we have...
Liked On: 29-04-2024, 02:10 PM
248650 My first roaring sika, pretty young animal but will make good salami. Next time will be looking for a better set of head gear. Awesome experience, stags going nuts round camp overnight.
Liked On: 26-04-2024, 03:29 PM
Some from the weekend. Not on DOC land, so they don't count in my mind- but I'm not a trophy hunter in any event so the meat is the point of the exercise. 248645 248646 248647
Liked On: 26-04-2024, 03:29 PM
you could have rung i have been in the workshop all day finishing this248105
Liked On: 24-04-2024, 05:49 PM
First walk in a while after hurting my back , negotiating the supplejack was tough with a back like ironing board hahaha. Nice to be out , but its baby steps , heard 1 roar and a brief flash of an...
Liked On: 23-04-2024, 06:58 PM
Final tally 563. Home tomorrow.
Liked On: 23-04-2024, 06:57 PM
Ripper sika! Young fulla will be stoked. The one thing I miss about the north island. 248418 248419 Shot probably my stag this roar. Ripper catlins stag couldn't believe it. Bloody...
Liked On: 21-04-2024, 09:16 AM
In March last year Don Yearbury a long time NZDA Whangarei member passed away peacefully at his home in Kamo. His Partner Dawn had the hard job of sorting through his arsenal and I was lucky enough...
Liked On: 20-04-2024, 09:35 AM