Thread: Birthday Hunt

Hi Team yes its that time of year again , My B day its not usually met with too much enthusiasm , well on my behalf anyway especially now that im getting reeeally old forty poo to be precise , but I guess I do have a lot of cool things happing like the kids getting old enough to tag along on hunts among other things , the hand peace is sitting in a dusty bucket (did put a bit of crc in there ...just incase my master plan fails ) and my phone well sometimes I don't even no where it is , anyhow my buddy Mac attack had not been for a hunt in ages I do recall the last hunt as , "someone" left there bullets behind mind you creedmore bullets are rather small so easily done needless to say no deer where harmed !
so it was decided with Christmas just around the corner we,d best go for a hunt , piggy in the middle was bouncing up & down to join us so after stacking the last bales of hay , Mac turned up . Blue sky and a cool southerly breeze we headed to the crows nest its one of those spots you just never no what's going to show up being a saddle on the main range pigs & deer use it crossing from one side to the other so off went up the gut busting climb pushing through monkey scrub , flax and tussock after reaching the main ridge it starts to level off we were following the main game trail when I heard a bit of a grunt we stopped & listened and sure enough a stag was giving some practice roars like they do early roar iv seen spikers doing this so I presumed that's what it was however we did not locate the animal , upon reaching the crows nest we parked up with around 1 hour of light left we started glassing the saddle and opposite face after around 20 minutes I spotted a young velvet stag browsing in the scrub line but he had a nice even head so was safe even after some prompting from the little person to just shoot it ! , we sat tight waiting then a spiker turned up followed by another , even though they were from different parts of the forest somehow they ended up feeding together ..a fatal mistake 325y away some last minute flax and tussock trimming done we were ready to rumble , with the suppressors everyone uses these days (self included) there was no booming echoes bouncing around the gully's but still a good end result


While im at it purely for the benefit of others reading this here's another quick yarn its called "pigs revenge"
so I shot a couple of really good fat pigs 2 weeks ago , we figured a bit of a local street pre xmas party was in order , naturally a big back leg of basted delicious pork put in the rotisserie would be perfect , I had the temp sitting at around 180 degrees but wandered off into the garage for around 7 minutes only to see black smoke rising above the house !!
so its BBQ time boys and girls lesson learnt , don't put the bbq close to the house & guess don't leave it unattended ..this was raging the pork was like a Lucifer fire lighter , I shall be purchasing a fire extinguisher as well.


Have a Good one.

Isn't that how the chinese discovered cooking.
Tasted some burnt pig.

Happy birthday mate, the like is for the hunt not the pork fire

Fourty 2 aint old

Originally Posted by northdude

Fourty 2 aint old

Try telling the kids that !

Nice going, the deer, not the house. You still got plenty of hunting at 42 with the kids, well done not sure about the pork I suppose you could call it well done too.

Nice

Originally Posted by northdude

Fourty 2 aint old

Hope not, I have years left in me somewhere, just got to find them...
A good day out except for the house warming.

Fatal mistake for those spikers indeed! Well done cuz

Its wonderful that you get your daughter involved. Families that play together stay together.

That photo with your arm around her is a gem.

I'm blessed that I have a beautiful granddaughter to love - and my 2 big lumps of sons aren't half bad either.

Originally Posted by berg243

nice deer but your cooking skills are not even close to your shooting skills.spose its one way of getting a new barbeque for xmas.

I was hoping for a new BBQ but all I got was a grilling from the insurance man .

classic!

Good excuse to hunt more pork.

Silly Spikers stood still too long. Look nice eating

Still got a crack in the window from our BBQ

You cant beat crispy skin............nice one mate, i like your sense of humour.....