Thread: Public land deer - 53 years ago.

First deer we sold was at Mahi, driving back out in Vauxhall with no exhaust. I’d just left school and Dad had given me £20 for the holiday with two mates. We had toured the length of the North Island and we’re heading home to Masterton. Seven deer on the side of the road, we bowled one and sold it to a buyer for, from memory, for £70, but maybe off the mark. Holiday improved with that in our pocket. I was 16, so 57 years ago.
Worse haul was 3 hinds, a stag and a spiker off the Wairarapa coast side of Otuahome Station, to Tinui, between 3 of us. I can still feel the relief of sighting the Commer Cob in the dusk. We’d shot them at 9 am in the morning