Crawled out of my Hammock at 2am last weekend to go take a suddenly very urgent nocturnal poo. Went wandering off into the broken Wilding pine regrowth on flat country in nothing but long johns and...
Liked On: 01-05-2019, 06:15 PM
I have had lots of balls ups...neck shot deer that drop on the spot but get up and walk off while you chase down his mates for a shot(recovered but still a balls up).......counting chickens before...
Liked On: 01-05-2019, 06:02 AM
Had a mate do exactly that to me - twice. The first trip was into Fiordland where we managed to spot 3 hinds on a slip. I said to him, "I'll take the one on the left, you take the one on the right....
Liked On: 30-04-2019, 07:45 PM
Someone once said, it wouldn't be hunting if you got one every time. You learn every time you go out, that's what makes us better hunters. I can't tell you how many times something outside the square...
Liked On: 29-04-2019, 05:59 AM
Got up at sparrows, to lay in wait on a nice hill that the sun would rise on.......as expected, a nice fat spiker walks into view....70 mtrs away I, still being a newbie, though I better aim for...
Liked On: 29-04-2019, 05:59 AM
My Turn, Some 5-6 years back I was over by Waiawa Hut in Te Urewera Park with a couple of mates and my young Dog. It was spring so we had done an evening and sunrise hunt up and down the River...
Liked On: 28-04-2019, 07:56 PM
Took a couple of weeks off for the roar this year to have a good crack at it after only getting out for 2 weekends of roar action last year. First trip was a more of a camp/lazy hunt with the Mrs on...
Liked On: 28-04-2019, 02:33 PM
Probably because people don't want to end up like me with a head full of singing locus's and half deaf. Plus, I like my dog and respect other people's quiet enjoyment.
Liked On: 28-04-2019, 12:59 PM
I once was in the Blue mountains, and sneaked round a corner with my Swedish Mauser, and a black deer stood up and stared at me from three metres away. I had my rifle pointed in his direction as it...
Liked On: 28-04-2019, 12:28 PM
Out hunting with the old man when I was young on the family farm, up early, way out the back we go. Mob of pigs spotted feeding away, Dad says stay here and i'll stalk in. Off he goes, weaving in...
Liked On: 28-04-2019, 12:28 PM
I was hunting alone in the kaikouras years ago. Saw a handy hind a couple of hundred meters up from the creek. Headed up to get a shot and she lead me further and further up. Finally got a shot...
Liked On: 28-04-2019, 10:53 AM
After the 2016 Toby shoot, I walked into makino hut, those who know the area will also know that the area had suffered extensive snow damage. So the hairy and I ended up scrambling around in the dark...
Liked On: 28-04-2019, 10:51 AM
With the forests open to hunting for permit holders again we went for a drive this arvo. The weather was pretty average, blowing, with mist/clouds up high, so was treating it as a recce mission. ...
Liked On: 27-04-2019, 10:54 PM
Was out rabbit shooting and was nailing just about everything right out to the edge of spotlight range about 250y using a .223. Close one at 25y and missed all 5 shot Sent from my SM-G975F using...
Liked On: 27-04-2019, 10:50 PM
I can beat the lot of you. A couple of years ago took my daughter out one arvo to see the hinds I had seen in the morning at the back of the farm. Rookie mistake only taking the camera and saw...
Liked On: 27-04-2019, 10:41 PM