After I figured it out I went for a hunt. 3 hours patient slow walk and glass where we saw 4 earlier in the day. Shot nothing, spooked nothing saw nothing. Get back to bivy camp tired after long...
Liked On: 14-01-2023, 03:54 PM
All good mate, i took the photo and may have shot the stag :thumbsup: that bivy has been everywhere from Fiordland to the Kaimanawas and performed a treat.
Liked On: 13-01-2023, 10:24 PM
Sndway. There is a review on here somewhere...... Sent from my SM-G950F using Tapatalk
Liked On: 13-01-2023, 09:08 PM
Use a tree, sticks, poles, rifle, etc to set up the front opening. Can be set up lower, wider as required. 214421 214422 214423
Liked On: 13-01-2023, 08:05 PM
Please dont take any offence at this remark as that is not the intention. I think it perfectly reasonable to accept that in certain situations staff, or more likely even owners of businesses could be...
Liked On: 12-01-2023, 06:51 PM
Where ever you have people involved there is always greed & temptation. Also remember it wasn’t that long ago you had the owner of a H&F store involved in drug dealing!
Liked On: 12-01-2023, 06:51 PM
I got my first deer yesterday. A nice red stag. After two luckless day trips in the Southern Tararuas and one in the Aorangis, I went for another optimistic armed walk into the Tararuas. I had...
Liked On: 12-01-2023, 12:29 PM
Hey team. New to the forum. Amazing resource for hunters, fishermen and outdoorsmen and women here. Names Josh, have hunted and fished most areas of public land available here in Hawkes Bay being...
Liked On: 12-01-2023, 08:22 AM
I had 2x308 rifles a Forbes 308 which is an Ultralite rifle just over 5 LBs 21" barrel till I put a Schmidt&Bender 2.5-10x56 scope on it and is a great lowlight bush gun as well as a Tikka 308 until...
Liked On: 10-01-2023, 07:06 PM
still a few bolt actions in use in the bush....pretty good cartridge for young folks and sub 150 yard deer ,pigs,goats.... and a few bakail singles too.
Liked On: 10-01-2023, 06:54 PM
It just comes down to what you like I suppose - I've had 7mm Rem mag, .280, .270 and I've fired a bunch of others - and some gave me more recoil than I was comfortable with, and the 7x57 never did...
Liked On: 10-01-2023, 06:51 PM
me old Forest Service Field Officer would have had a name for the 6.5 Crudmore - a squaw gun - long live the mighty .270
Liked On: 10-01-2023, 06:48 PM
I’ll put my hand up for one. Even though I posses a rifle in said caliber, you would have to add the .260Rem. Like many others, it’s only handloading keeping it alive given the scarcity of factory...
Liked On: 10-01-2023, 06:48 PM
I thought the 7x57 did - when me and my mates upgraded from the .303 we all got 7x57's. At that time I thought they were two only two calibres (apart from .22). Then one day my BSA couldn't hit a...
Liked On: 10-01-2023, 06:42 PM
Have a look at the list of cartridges (not calibres ffs!) in Quickload and mesmerise yourself at the sheer number of cartridges you’ve never even heard of. So many odd little men in their sheds...
Liked On: 10-01-2023, 06:38 PM