Taking a quick break on the main drag in Te Anau after a sneaky all nighter up the Mavora area. Both these ol buddies would be laughing their heads off if they thought that one day in the future all...
Liked On: 24-05-2024, 09:19 AM
Got a couple days of wind in Auckland / Waikato and boy what a difference Highlights My first band in a few years (Second ever) Limits on two consecutive days 3x Man limit on pheasants in a day...
Liked On: 24-05-2024, 09:15 AM
Thanks Husky1600#2 for jacking this up. As discussed in the Sparrowhawk Ultimate Hunter thread earlier in the year, there was enthusiasm for a NZHS Forum event shooting the same course. ...
Liked On: 21-05-2024, 10:08 PM
The open tussock land of Waiouru got an absolute pasting from soldiers that could make more from selling a couple of deer shot during the weekend, than they were making from their salary as a...
Liked On: 21-05-2024, 03:49 PM
250667Day 1.Heavy Podocarp forest with thick as supplejack guts in the damp spots.Gave the dogs the edge in the head long rush to the valley floor.Funnily both animals ended up in the valley floor...
Liked On: 21-05-2024, 07:41 AM
250672Ace was his name.Tattooed on left ear.But he,d be long gone to the happy hunting ground.If it's brown it's down
Liked On: 21-05-2024, 07:39 AM
And finally.Did the Blue Merle thing in my pack too.He didn't set the world on fire.Close finder/ ear holder but needed back up.Took a lot of hits and went off his stroke early @ age 3.Someone did...
Liked On: 20-05-2024, 10:28 PM
250666@Woody my pack would work long necks too.Set an ambush two days running ,with ching ching both days on good stags.Ol mate in the valley floor with radios in the truck ready to head for the...
Liked On: 20-05-2024, 09:55 PM
250663The hurt locker.Here we go again but no offsider to Carry the head and the gatt.kinda needed 3 hands to carry everything on steeper country.As I say no thermal and no suppressors,so tended to...
Liked On: 20-05-2024, 09:04 PM
Shit my back n shoulders are aching looking at that..nice. I recall a coupla mates and my self once packed in three twelve volt acid batteries...one each pluss gear,bloody stupid fi sure but hey we...
Liked On: 20-05-2024, 07:59 PM
250660Someone once told me rules are made to be broken.Lake Sumner RHA so no hunting for filthy lucre.South Branch Hurunui with Bushy Stream opposite on the T.R. Eskhead Stn.Murupara Moonbeam...
Liked On: 20-05-2024, 07:58 PM
Yes would be Waimaha station thats where the Hangaroa comes out of Te Urewera a lot of early native logging went on in the big basin in the Hangaroa that was NZFS land
Liked On: 20-05-2024, 12:54 PM
Woody There's something special about heelers. You have to have one to know, their loyalty and commitment is remarkable.
Liked On: 20-05-2024, 12:51 PM
best weight I can remember was a mate sold a stag from Te Kumi right up the east coast 404 lb sold shot out in the paddock in velvet - most whole stags we sold were in the 130 -230 lb mark 230...
Liked On: 20-05-2024, 12:47 PM
The other in Masterton was Paddy O’brien, used to sell him Venision and hares. After Paddy passed, the facility processed Pāua, was jointly owned by Owen “frog” Fairbrother. Biggest Pāua processing...
Liked On: 20-05-2024, 12:43 PM