To put some age perspective on the skin hunting pics, mate is 81 and Im 75. He was about 20 and I was about 15. So it was around about 1963. Used to sell skins to a place in Rangatikei street in...
Liked On: 24-05-2024, 09:38 AM
250915250916Wandering off topic ,so will wrap it up here. river buggy shots up the Orongas.The well known split Totara Baines hut mid- upper valley mid 70's.Doc would go butchers hook if they saw U...
Liked On: 24-05-2024, 09:38 AM
250913 No dropping to the chiller that weeked.All kills in Davy Jones locker.Oronga running high.No snorkels back then
Liked On: 24-05-2024, 09:37 AM
The Quad fleet,Orongas in a banker,river buggies etc etc.If U can't squeeze anymore in the back of the '64 Vanguard station wagon,chuck em up on the homebuilt roof rack250907 the...
Liked On: 24-05-2024, 09:36 AM
250906For the younger forum members who mite be bored - just scroll on by.The generation before me who we learn the sport off and who we looked up to as wee tackers.meat hunting Orongarongas 60's -...
Liked On: 24-05-2024, 09:36 AM
Just like your Austin buggy getting A-Framed behind the red (Valiant station wagon??), the Braddy was occasionally A-Framed back up to Wainui to get battle damage repaired.The Black n White Traffic...
Liked On: 24-05-2024, 09:35 AM
A couple of pics skin hunting pre-dating my meat hunting. With the old 303's. I was just a kid (pic not of me). Mate Bill's foresight was a lump of filed to shape solder. In the Puketios. You can see...
Liked On: 24-05-2024, 09:34 AM
yes still goes on lower Whakatane river its the common method - lower end of the Waioeka - the Motu - Horomanga - Whakatane they local Taneatua hunters would come up on horseback with up to 10...
Liked On: 24-05-2024, 09:33 AM
Hey doinit appreciate the happy snap of the home built buggy for packing out carcasses.My post 150/152 re dogging deer on the Orongarongas with good results.We were only copying what the previous...
Liked On: 24-05-2024, 09:32 AM
Nothin like tidays tussock hoppers that's a fact. We did however own early Landies later on along with different types of motor bikes..the buggy was made from an ol Austin,seen here near the...
Liked On: 24-05-2024, 09:19 AM
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