Be aware of snow slopes! This time of year wet slides are a real danger. More so in the arvo on a sunny face. Fastest way to the valley floor is messed up in tonnes or wet snow soon to freeze like...
Liked On: 04-11-2020, 10:21 AM
Tahr are low at the moment, in the scrub line. I wouldn't bother climbing high until you have a good look over the lower country first. There are tahr higher, you'll always see the odd one, but the...
Liked On: 04-11-2020, 10:20 AM
this is one of my favourite mount yet. every hunter needs a Hind in their trophy room... without these, there is no giants. https://i.imgur.com/QZk6eY2.jpg
Liked On: 04-11-2020, 12:13 AM
Not sure how many of these will be knocking about in NZ, but before modern spotting scopes came out these sweet things were your only option for glassing. Takes a bit of skill to use but they give...
Liked On: 03-11-2020, 11:14 PM
Cheap Sunglasses and some sunscreen.
Liked On: 03-11-2020, 10:02 PM
Good weather be the best thing to take :-) I know someone there now wont be to happy with this weeks weather :-( Hard to pick if your set to dates Re work etc
Liked On: 03-11-2020, 10:01 PM
All the advice mentioned above works on Sika as well :)
Liked On: 03-11-2020, 10:01 PM
Patience, patience, patience! Be prepared to sit and look, then look some more. Dont be in a hurry to walk too far, or to climb too high. Find em during the day, lay in wait in the evening. And dont...
Liked On: 03-11-2020, 09:46 PM
...settle fellas, not like that... Went out for another quick hunt on Sunday in a local DOC block. Weather had being wet day before so knew ground underfoot was going to be better for any bush...
Liked On: 03-11-2020, 09:39 PM
good binos...piece of close cell foam mat to sit on when glassing...lay down with back against tussock etc and glass glass glass.... saw some today and they looking rather blond....tussocky...
Liked On: 03-11-2020, 09:32 PM
Probaly should have mentioned, be careful with rivers.
Liked On: 03-11-2020, 09:32 PM
This time of year - spend the mornings glassing from camp (or if you must walk about, the valley floor), have a late lunch and make dinner, then go for a walk up the valley to wait till the Tahr come...
Liked On: 03-11-2020, 09:32 PM
Enough gun Only deer I ever got with the 416 remmy. Shot at a couple others but ran out of talent. Only stag I've ever got too. 20 years ago close to Waitangi day-evening shot Beard looks really...
Liked On: 02-11-2020, 10:24 AM
Following off the back of bigbear making a post about his deer dog coming on heat a while ago, I threw my hat in the ring for my dog to do the deed. A couple of weeks later him and his family were...
Liked On: 02-11-2020, 09:01 AM
A good quality production rifle should be able to be fully stripped, barreled action removed from the stock as well as the bolt stripped down etc and return to zero no probs. I've done this with a...
Liked On: 01-11-2020, 09:41 PM