Thread: Brushing up on some bush stalking skills

In Northland, 25.2 metres would be good going in the bush!

i have lost two animals in the last year or so. the first a young goat. came around a corner and there it was facing me at around ten mtrs. nailed it full in the chest with the 357 expecting it to drop on the spot but had some kind of reflex action and jumped off the side of the track. followed it down a very steep bank to recover it for the pot but gave up when came to the edge of a 40 mtr odd drop straight down. no way of getting down there without climbing gear. the second was a pig. side on shot to the heart with the evil black gun and the bugger jumped and shot across the open ground into the biggest blackberry jungle I think i have ever seen. I tried to get the lad to shimmy on his belly army style through the pig tunnels to retrieve the porker but for some strange reason he wouldn't do it. i even offered to guard his bag while he was in there.....