Thread: Taumarunui

Originally Posted by andyanimal31

I can confirm you do need plenty of fire wood in Taihape as lived there from 1967 to very recently!
Poke fun you will but what an awesome place to grow up and bring up my 3 boys.
Love the community and still one of the few places you dont have to lock your doors every time you leave the house!


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Had a mate take a 5 day-a-week job down there, he stuck it for a while, he did a lot of rural deliveries and scored several hunting spots...i think being snowed in got to him a bit so came back north.

If only Michael Palin had grown up as a tyke in Taumaranui on the main trunk line in a broad kiwi accent

Originally Posted by andyanimal31

An of shoot valley of the Ruatiti road called Makakahi road.
It's an hour ten from Taihape.
Still go down a bit as mum and one boy and house still there and still on the board for the school.
If ya down round the mountain come for a catch up!



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Was in erua pines yesterday, falling off a push bike a lot


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Originally Posted by MSL

Was in erua pines yesterday, falling off a push bike a lot


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Yep best to stay of those bikes as very dangerous!
If you do the bridge to nowhere ya better call in for a coffee!

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Coffee? I’m more interested in a mutton roast


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so is there a range around Taumarunui?

Originally Posted by widerange

so is there a range around Taumarunui?

You didn't check b4 making the decision to move and factoring it in ☺

There used to be a black powder club. Long ago lost to touch with this interest though.
There also used to be a rifle range of sorts heading north out of town past the dual road/rail bridge over the road.

Originally Posted by widerange

so is there a range around Taumarunui?

good gun club in echolands.....so just mananui side of township on same side of river,just.....not sure if they have centrefire range as such but down where they do high phesant over top of the bluff,is about the most natural perfect safe range imaginable...back off towards river and would be shooting into 30mtr high bank.
access to farmland to sight in wont be hard to get either...pretty down to earth folk around them parts.

Originally Posted by widerange

so is there a range around Taumarunui?

There was a sports store in the main street, ask them.

Originally Posted by tetawa

There was a sports store in the main street, ask them.

Seriously outdoors, I asked them last week, no luck. But I reckon I’ll find a place


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Apparently the deerstalkers have one ?
Haven't got hold of them yet but I guess who told me this may be meaning the taupo one

Originally Posted by zimmer

You didn't check b4 making the decision to move and factoring it in

There used to be a black powder club. Long ago lost to touch with this interest though.
There also used to be a rifle range of sorts heading north out of town past the dual road/rail bridge over the road.

The black powder range was on my cousins farm over the whanganui river off Hikumutu rd I think they stopped using it not long after they converted the farm from beef to dairy.


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welcome mate.
Thats home for me , i grew up in owhango , went to manunui primary ( started school there then moved to owhango , so stayed ) then moved onto nui high.
Live between There and tekuiti nowadays , but am contemplating moving home.
Grandparents are there , most of my hunting is back there. its a great place.
Enjoy. Maybe catch up for a cuppa tea.

Originally Posted by vtkomene

welcome mate.
Thats home for me , i grew up in owhango , went to manunui primary ( started school there then moved to owhango , so stayed ) then moved onto nui high.
Live between There and tekuiti nowadays , but am contemplating moving home.
Grandparents are there , most of my hunting is back there. its a great place.
Enjoy. Maybe catch up for a cuppa tea.

I’m heading back the in the morning, I like it for many of the reasons others don’t.


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when where you at highschool bud???? or how many moons ago were you calved LOL