Popped up and into the kawekas over the weekend, On the first arvo my mate shot his first sika at 300, just a tasty little male yearling. The next morning, we headed to another spot and as I...
Liked On: 06-06-2023, 02:22 PM
Well, as it turned out we had a successful plan B. I wanted to do something for him: I missed his birthday earlier in May as I was in Germany. The day I flew out, I asked him if there was anything...
Liked On: 06-06-2023, 09:55 AM
Baking soda is good for killing smell, tip the skull up and shake a heap down into the nasal cavity and brain cavity, leave for a week and then knock the skull with the palm of your hand to free up...
Liked On: 26-05-2023, 02:43 PM
your Very lucky could have ended up deadly, good to hear you ok
Liked On: 25-05-2023, 12:48 PM
Came across something similar in Pureoras a few years back in an area where the native had been logged 50 or 60 years back. A long trench about 2-3 m deep, and deeper in places, and 3m or so wide....
Liked On: 25-05-2023, 12:48 PM
Just one more reason to carry a mustering stick and 'test' the ground ahead with it
Liked On: 24-05-2023, 05:58 PM
I worked/tramped/hunted for 40 years in Auckland's Waitakere Ranges (60,000 acres of dense jungle) and many times came across (just in time!) square vertical shafts of about 7-800 mm diameter, and...
Liked On: 24-05-2023, 05:58 PM
in my bumbag , always on me whether hunting for a day or hunting/camping for a week ... plb , gps , emergency shelter , first aid kit , cable ties , dynema cordage + paracord , 6 spare rounds of...
Liked On: 24-05-2023, 05:02 PM
Not hunting but saw something very similar back about 1990 when I was doing a small stint at pruning. Been dropped off at the top of the hill and we all all made sure we were at the bottom at the end...
Liked On: 24-05-2023, 04:39 PM
Close call alright. Glad it turned out well for you
Liked On: 24-05-2023, 04:39 PM
one thing I never go into bush without and have done for years one brand new cigarette lighter and glad wrapped - several pieces of push bike inner tube - in belt pack with a light survival blanket
Liked On: 24-05-2023, 04:39 PM
In two words fuck that... Glad you made it ok
Liked On: 24-05-2023, 04:39 PM
Thanks for sharing and glad you made it out as well as you did. Those Kaimai's can be shit at times , I had my share of adventures / misadventures in them.
Liked On: 24-05-2023, 04:39 PM
While dragging a large pig through heavy fern by a rope around snout, I turned around to check if I was going in the right direction when my white dog fell down a 2 metre square hole where my next...
Liked On: 24-05-2023, 04:34 PM
I recal walking through tangled supplejack with fella many years ago..I must have been 12-13 at the time...Phil got well ahead of me and then came back to find out why I was taking so long....he was...
Liked On: 24-05-2023, 04:33 PM