69gn tmk broadside 100 yds right on dark didn’t stand a chance 242593
Liked On: 28-01-2024, 09:49 AM
Three possums in three nights than this wee girl this morning. Have a hen pheasant with poults at foot running around home. Chance of survival just drastically increased, I hope! 242582
Liked On: 27-01-2024, 10:37 PM
242568 No one has started the annual stag and buck thread yet so thought I might as well kick it off Show us your stags or bucks, big or small post them all! Here is one from the other day the...
Liked On: 27-01-2024, 05:27 PM
Oh ok, go on then Nice even 10ptr from the Ruahine, stripped up well too. Shot at 1pm on a really hot day munching out hardcore on Ongaonga on a slip.... ...
Liked On: 27-01-2024, 05:27 PM
Well it's taken longer than I planned, but the camper is getting close now. One of the Queenstown Go Orange buses built back around 2019, that got laid up coz of Covid. I picked it up in '21 with...
Liked On: 26-01-2024, 07:29 PM
I can confirm Tahr is a ‘good bugger’. He arranged a ‘not another forum hunt’ about 16 years ago on the old forum where I shot my first deer. Then some years later he showed me how to reload my own...
Liked On: 26-01-2024, 07:28 PM
Got to like a good relationship with land owners and farmers. Seen some sky pandas and sky rats in a paddock so called in to see the farmer and got the green light, called the boss (myself) and after...
Liked On: 26-01-2024, 02:26 PM
Forgot to say that both hinds were dry, Tahr said they were the 4th and 5th dry hinds shot this summer.
Liked On: 26-01-2024, 01:51 PM
I'd be interested to try the 77 TMKs but the 80 ELDMs just work so well and are substantially cheaper (and available) (and I have a large stock) (and I can't be bothered doing load development) (and...
Liked On: 26-01-2024, 10:49 AM
Man I love this thread. Evidence based, an increasingly broad base of contributors, lots of different rifles, projectiles, different deer species. Photos, videos, detailed descriptions. And...
Liked On: 26-01-2024, 10:48 AM
I had come up to Masterton to see my parents and had to stay longer than I expected. For a break I reached out to Tahr to see if I could tag along on one of his hunts. He was going to be hunting...
Liked On: 26-01-2024, 10:38 AM
This one of Moa Hunter came out okay. I had to adjust it to pick up his dog Skye in the gloom though 242400
Liked On: 25-01-2024, 10:43 AM
242325 Husqvarna 1600, 308. Manufactured in 1960, sold out of Tuckers Sports in Ashburton in 1961. Kahles Helia 1.5-6. May have had 4 boxes of ammo through it in all those years. A lightweight...
Liked On: 24-01-2024, 09:07 PM
I thought about bringing some home with me from the US (currently over there) but it turns out I would need an export permit, and it got waaay too admin intensive for a few packets of projectiles. ...
Liked On: 24-01-2024, 12:31 PM
Thanks guys, you've made an old Dinosaur very happy! What a wonderful day this has turned out to be! I'm going for a nap now, to dream of mountains and rivers, bush and campsites, good mates and many...
Liked On: 23-01-2024, 10:08 PM