Used to come across piles of .303 brass when doing venison in South Westland. Nearly all the major basins from Paringa to Milford would have a wee pile somewhere.
Never disturbed them. Some of the piles were almost 50+
I know of one that has over 100 pieces in it.
I enjoyed looking over that country in a quiet moment and imagine huge mobs of Otago deer with several stags looking for supremacy.
Some of the game trails out of a lot of those catchments are over 100 yrs old and still well formed and used.
I have seen a mob of 40+ deer once thru that country but I would say it was once an everyday event for some cullers in the early days.
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