After years of carrying out gutted animals for the game buyer, my knees aren't up to it any more so I just whip off the legs and backsteaks, and into my day pack and away I go. On your own you can...
Liked On: 03-06-2019, 12:42 PM
I always fully bone out in the field. Cant see the point in carrying out bone and skin I can't eat. Your meat yield will be approx. 50% of the gutted animal weight. A red hind will yield between...
Liked On: 03-06-2019, 12:37 PM
My hunting mate from Auckland was down for a conference, and we thought we would capitalize on him being in my neck of the woods, and head into the hills for a hunt. We had been planning this for...
Liked On: 01-06-2019, 03:09 PM
Well this starts as the roar kicked in. It was a funny roar, they roared OK but as we can only weekend hunt we may have missed some of the better days. We set a few extra cameras in different areas...
Liked On: 20-05-2019, 09:13 PM
111691 This was another one, I thought he was a 12. Still a cool looking animal
Liked On: 20-05-2019, 01:14 PM
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Liked On: 20-05-2019, 01:13 PM
111685 I made an account here a while back and only just remembered this password again. Anyway to bolster my post count heres my roar effort, managed to bag this one out of the Waiokotore Stream...
Liked On: 20-05-2019, 01:13 PM
Nice looking sika alright, here's my Sambar from yesterday111673
Liked On: 20-05-2019, 01:13 PM
Two weeks ago Shift14 and I did one of our annual chopper trips to the Southern Kaimanawa blocks, it was a 6 nighter and the weather turned it on for us. A couple of weeks prior we went into the...
Liked On: 19-05-2019, 09:54 PM
Nice rifle too! :)
Liked On: 19-05-2019, 02:40 PM
Just come in from giving a head a scrub. Going to let it dry of and see if i need to give it a once over. Lession learnt to spend more time when boiling and use a pressure washer. Is looking better...
Liked On: 12-05-2019, 03:22 PM
I would not hesitate to shoot down a drone we’re it to still be flying over my property once I had gotten a shotgun and shells out of their respective secure storage. It is illegal for a drone...
Liked On: 08-05-2019, 09:22 PM
Under Mountain Light Wild Jim came down from the hill, came down bent and white, He had spent his life under southern mountain light No more creeks to cross on frozen morning, under a...
Liked On: 05-05-2019, 09:42 PM
I once was in the Blue mountains, and sneaked round a corner with my Swedish Mauser, and a black deer stood up and stared at me from three metres away. I had my rifle pointed in his direction as it...
Liked On: 28-04-2019, 09:12 PM
109838 First public land fallow stag. Watched him come in croaking hard and steal the ladies off another young fulla. Left him for the afternoon to do his thing then came back in the evening to...
Liked On: 25-04-2019, 07:49 PM