I personally think deer numbers in certain areas are out of control. Game management in these areas is not needed at present. Shoot everything including fawns. If we don’t the next hot topic to piss...
Liked On: 22-03-2021, 08:04 PM
The Matawai pub could tell a few stories if the walls could talk. In the 1960's while on animal surveys with F&RES two of us got caught out i the head of the Opato in a fierceome storm. We...
Liked On: 22-03-2021, 07:57 PM
Years ago, was shooting clays with a policeman mate in a field surrounded by tall macro hedges on all sides. Nearest house (apart from Mine) 2k. Got a phone call from a chook farmer down the road,...
Liked On: 22-03-2021, 01:59 PM
I wont brag.:P But this guy came charging in a few days ago on public land. Heard him roar. Then I replied a few times and he went mental and proceeded to stand broadside at 200y. One...
Liked On: 21-03-2021, 02:28 PM
Learned the hard way in my late teens / early twentys. Had two polar opposite experiences. One where i was in the right and cops made it difficult. The other was Where i was way way in the wrong and...
Liked On: 19-03-2021, 08:08 PM
They seem a good accessory, trekking pole, tent pole. You can get trekking poles where you can remove the top knob and they have a camera screw attachment so you get a camera monopod. A camera...
Liked On: 16-03-2021, 07:54 PM
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Liked On: 15-03-2021, 08:02 PM
The adult hinds have their first estrus cycle around 20 March coinciding with photo period and that is when a lot of old stags do their rooting. At the next cycle three weeks later all the young...
Liked On: 14-03-2021, 03:46 PM
It is actually a 1/2 size Whitworth, as used by the south in the civil war, I did the engineering & machining and my mate did all the woodwork including the wheels, it took just over a year to build...
Liked On: 14-03-2021, 12:24 PM
Was she an aussie
Liked On: 12-03-2021, 07:38 PM
Western Australia, 2012. Organised a trip all the way up to the Northern Territory border for a spot of scrub cattle and donkey culling on the station. It’s a full day drive and by that I mean about...
Liked On: 09-03-2021, 09:09 PM
I've got a few reliable deer spots, but I'm just an uncultured oik, so I'd be too awestruck to deign to converse with you, so I'll just keep them to myself. Just off out to the garage and chill out...
Liked On: 09-03-2021, 09:03 PM
There is a place in the Kaimanawas at the end of a track that runs from a car park to a clearing. From the clearing you go up into the bush,sidle along for a while with the wind in your face. I...
Liked On: 09-03-2021, 09:00 PM
Great stuff, now I don't feel so guilty for having two 223's.
Liked On: 08-03-2021, 09:58 PM
Maybe its a creedmore then....?????:thumbsup:
Liked On: 07-03-2021, 08:38 AM