I've owned and hunted with two and shot two loaners hunting. They are accurate little rifles for shooting groups but for some reason I could never shoot well with one on the hill - missed many shots...
Liked On: 17-01-2021, 08:10 PM
Not interested in looking at suberbia thanks. The hundreds of beatiful shades of green , yellow and browns of the bush, stream borders of flaxes and shrubs, the mauve monowai, the blond tussocks, the...
Liked On: 17-01-2021, 06:43 PM
No set pattern of behavior, lots of variables, Tuesday was stalking 3 spikers in a gully, when I finally got the shot I wanted ,I had had eyes on all 3 for a couple of hrs, all in exactly the same...
Liked On: 17-01-2021, 02:15 PM
The neighbour said to me the other day that he had noticed a couple of rabbits had appeared in one of his paddocks that the sheep had eaten down and with a bit of cover around the edge. After tea...
Liked On: 17-01-2021, 02:10 PM
One night some young drunks were flying around spotlighting in their loud ass truck, It went silent as anything for the next 24hrs, barely a peep from a bird. The night before we had deer at the tent...
Liked On: 16-01-2021, 05:49 PM
besides the gun safe we have 2 small safes in the house. ones for passports etc and the other for jewellery. about a month back the jewellery safe wouldnt open by the keypad. no issues i though i...
Liked On: 10-01-2021, 08:00 PM
Good luck cuz, Mine took 11 months and 10 days, from my interview in late February, to it appearing in my letter box. These people are beyond useless. After six months they provided me with an...
Liked On: 10-01-2021, 07:59 PM
Join NZDA, do their HUNTS course. It's not the kind of thing I'd normally do, but was advised to on this forum when I asked the same question as you a year or so ago. It was the best thing ever...
Liked On: 10-01-2021, 11:01 AM
157761 Picked this up yesterday. Looking forward to work starting now as this is what I will use to get there and back....(Well thats what I told the wife to explain why I bought it...)
Liked On: 09-01-2021, 01:07 PM
A boar can be very dangerous. I recall a circumstance many moons ago in the south Waikato bush where our dogs were tracking a boar on top of a big hill in dense bush. Took us an age to get to, then...
Liked On: 09-01-2021, 07:58 AM
Many years ago in the Urewera I was climbing a spur out of the Waimana and all of a sudden a hind came flying down the spur, stopped 10m away and looked at me. After I shot her, I sat down on the...
Liked On: 09-01-2021, 06:52 AM
HOPE THIS IS CORRECT SPOT> hi everyone. bit of an update and a thankyou. the good news is the land deal has finally gone through so i now have somewhere to shoot my pcp air rifles and my shotty....
Liked On: 08-01-2021, 04:05 PM
Keen to get into an area with pigs. The only time i've ever seen one was when i was fresh out of the infantry doing security lockups. I pulled in at a headland near a garbage dump. Jumped out of my...
Liked On: 07-01-2021, 11:38 PM
This for me as a beginner was huge, because when I started I didn't have deer hunting mates to pass that sort of wisdom along. I knew they used their noses, but had no concept of quite how much the...
Liked On: 07-01-2021, 08:09 PM
Got home last night from 9 nights up at French Pass. Main goal was to target kingfish around the pass from the 3.1 RIB. Had heaps of success jigging despite having to use my lighter gear (Saltiga...
Liked On: 06-01-2021, 07:05 PM