Bought a Parker Hale sporter with "Luminar" scope--brand new barrel,very nice "walnut" stock,5 round mag, when I was 17! Cost me 27 pounds 10 shillings ($55), Best bush gun I have ever used! Can...
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Bought a Parker Hale sporter with "Luminar" scope--brand new barrel,very nice "walnut" stock,5 round mag, when I was 17! Cost me 27 pounds 10 shillings ($55), Best bush gun I have ever used! Can...
Why, oh why,
Was a dump ever allowed to be established within a bulls roar of a Westland river?????, whoever would approve the site in the first place, the local council has a lot to answer for...
Pohukura road has been "Gated off" some years ago by the "Owners", even though it is a public road----they don't want anyone in there disturbing their "Horticultural operations"!!!?
The old Waipunga...
Just been through me photo file, willing to bet me mother in laws inheritance that it's Waiotukapiti--(Te Waikapiti)!!!:)
It looks very like Waiotukapiti Hut on the Waiau river, may be wrong but that's very like what I remember!!:)
Had to have my pump Resealed coz the low sulphur diesel goes the "O' rings, got totally ripped off by "Jaffa" outfit, $3900 by the time it was on the road again,(will admit, new injector tips were...
Pohutukawa is good,
oak is even better, gives good colour and not at all bitter taste as manuka sometimes can be.
Bet he stunk like a sackfull of dead weasels!!!!:)
Wouldn't want to be trying to get out of the Whakatane at the moment---they have had the highest river level ever recorded there!!
I'd hate to be ploddin down the valley "on me orse" and have that...
Apart from the Waikaremoana track, there's not been a lot of track maintenance done on the likes of the Waimana and Whakatane tracks for quite some while. So I'd be a bit cautious of "indicated...
You're right there,
We hooked one on Anzac Day a couple of years ago, had im for over an hour and then it "Fell Orf!!
Well--the game season at Mercury Bay hasn't been that flash at all, there's the odd marlin coming in, still a few Blues about, but nothing like other years, was out for the week of the nationals ,...
Still blowing it's arse off in Whitianga, the only decent day was last Sat, and we had to go to Whakatane!!!!
As far as I know there's still not been any stripeys weighed at Whitianga--the water...
Three big Blue Marlin weighed at Whitianga last Saturday, weighed, if I remember rightly 266, 281 and 304kg!!! Will be out there havin a go if the friggin wind ever subsides!!!:angry:
Are they the same variety, I know there's different ones, did the Rotorua ones originate from original liberation on Kawau Is?
Nothing to do with Clements rd, but I had to nip down to Hastings last week, absolutely amazed at the effect the big snow dump over the Rangataiki/Napier Taupo hill has had on the countryside---the...
You are too well fed!:thumbsup:
Thanks for that, you did well,---you didn't include the one of Halls hut on the Boyd airstrip--- very few people ever saw it, I have never seen any other pictures of it anywhere.
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I'm not savvy enough with comp!! It's a bit beyond me!! Might be able to email if you are interested!
Magic country,
Was first in there in the late 60's, there was a flash hut right on the end of the airstrip,(burnt down later), and the old Malthoid musterers hut up by where the big hut is now....
Favourite bush gun, flattened some big Urewera stags over the years and never had to chase one! Found that Silvertips tend to go straight through Jap deer, mainly I think because they never very far...
Are sure you don't mean "Glengarry road", it's past Te Pohue, goes across to Puketitiri road past the "Outdoors Centre"!!!!! That's where all they have on is a sun hat and a radio!!!:)
A Bod I worked with had a manual S80,(turbo) must have had low ratio diffs coz mine (auto)(turbo) at 100kmh the rev counter sez just over 2000, his manual one said just under 3000!!! Anyone know...
Just had week at Samoa,
Had three days fishing on charter boats, were there with fishing group, we caught 11 different species of fish, Wahoo, Mahimahi etc and...