Great times and hard case people. My first day meat hunting I earnt the equivalent of a weeks wages for the shepherds' job I chucked. I kept my dogs and mixed casual work with the hunting. Best...
Liked On: 20-05-2024, 12:42 PM
Not Tib Gedson in his 300?I would say the two Opotiki/Wairata chillers would have had the biggest tonnages in the Nth Is put thru them in those days due to all the Waro activity flying out of the...
Liked On: 20-05-2024, 12:41 PM
Tahr,just like up North the Sth Is chillers would fight it out for kgs thru the door.Mairs (Hokitika plant) running a heaviest stag comp to drag them in.We all know naturally jammy bastards along the...
Liked On: 20-05-2024, 12:38 PM
the roughest had to be the old Murupara pub one kept ones back to the wall and no eye ball no one
Liked On: 20-05-2024, 12:36 PM
the guy who ran the Tiniroto pub and chiller was a cunning publican - we would leave Gisborne friday night and hunt Te Urewera Nat Park behind Papuni station up the Ruakituri and then sell at...
Liked On: 20-05-2024, 11:48 AM
Hunted a lot with Fraser King from the bar 8 , lot of fun back in those days . All day in the bar 8 then all night in the Rangitaiki pub
Liked On: 20-05-2024, 11:06 AM
I had 2 Blue Heelers over my time. The first one named Mauve, the 2nd one named Mauve. Yes, loyal little guys and good natured. One would heel my horse while I was getting on - I wondered why my...
Liked On: 20-05-2024, 11:06 AM
John Ransfield was the Bergs buyer in Rotorua and over the years I dropped off a lot of deer to his chiller. The next time I saw John was when he arrived at my place in 2015 to do my safe...
Liked On: 20-05-2024, 09:01 AM
Great reading, my dad and poppa knew all these guys. AF found my old man’s best mate asleep in a Kaingaroa hut at 9am, kicked his ass out the door. A steep one in there Woody.
Liked On: 19-05-2024, 10:35 PM
Another yarn re the celebrated Ashley Forest woody.Strictly no hunting in the working forest Mon -Fri, then open to staff and general public on a balloted block system over the weekend.14 blocks but...
Liked On: 19-05-2024, 09:23 PM
yes the old FS took a poor view of its hunters selling deer - despite the fact that many of the shall we say upper management got away with it - we did give the loggers at Willow flat deer and they...
Liked On: 19-05-2024, 08:15 PM
Rusty memory but it's come back to me.The Marty chiller was run by a joker Higgins or Higginson but not the AB Lockwho played for The Bush.Also recall the Poh Base # Apiti 732 but dont ask me what I...
Liked On: 19-05-2024, 08:14 PM
The Bergs buyer Cliff Fergus at Mangatainoka was a great bloke. Supplied a lot through him. Cliff used to have sets of spare ears "just in case" they were needed. He would safety pin them on and rub...
Liked On: 19-05-2024, 08:13 PM
An old Tokoroa mate of mine who was a very capable hunter, and accomplished poacher, put some through the chillers/system, and some cash. He had a restaurant in Auckland that took meat. He would...
Liked On: 19-05-2024, 08:09 PM
nah it was honesty - one knew if you were ever caught cheating fellow hunters leave the district real quick or you would be a marked man- we did not tolerate that sort of bullshit - neither did we...
Liked On: 19-05-2024, 08:07 PM