After I figured it out I went for a hunt. 3 hours patient slow walk and glass where we saw 4 earlier in the day. Shot nothing, spooked nothing saw nothing. Get back to bivy camp tired after long...
Liked On: 14-01-2023, 05:54 AM
Hey team. New to the forum. Amazing resource for hunters, fishermen and outdoorsmen and women here. Names Josh, have hunted and fished most areas of public land available here in Hawkes Bay being...
Liked On: 12-01-2023, 04:45 AM
I got my first deer yesterday. A nice red stag. After two luckless day trips in the Southern Tararuas and one in the Aorangis, I went for another optimistic armed walk into the Tararuas. I had...
Liked On: 12-01-2023, 04:43 AM
These are the first 2 deer that I shot and sold. I was 21 It was in the head waters of the Mangahao in the Tararuas. About 5 hour walk to where I shot them. The rifle is a Brno .222. I shoulder...
Liked On: 05-01-2023, 09:16 PM
Picked up a new family member today. Super stoked, been waiting a long time until I was ready to put in the time a dog deserves. This year will be fun and challenging i think, but hopefully it'll...
Liked On: 05-01-2023, 09:09 PM
Don't assume that you have to walk for hours to get away from everyone else to get a deer. Far more deer are walked past than shot.
Liked On: 05-01-2023, 06:08 PM
In what has become an annual tradition mopheadrob, uk_exile and I headed in on a 4-day hunt into the Puketeraki area. 3 years ago on this trip, I shot a deer using mopheadrob's rifle but could not...
Liked On: 05-01-2023, 05:47 PM
Bobba very nice. What projectiles are you keen on? I’m running 150 eldx in my 19 inch barrel .284 and 162 AMax in my 22 inch barrel .284, I also have done 162 eldx and eldm that I’ll try in the 22...
Liked On: 04-01-2023, 05:47 PM
I have a heap of projectiles in stock, had so many on back order for so long it was nice to see some of them finally show up Shipments are few & far between these days then usually instantly all...
Liked On: 03-01-2023, 01:34 PM
Just back from the range shooting the 6.5-284 I've just finished assembling on a Savage action. The 620mm 24.5") barrel sent Norma 130gn target ammo downrange at 3090 fps average with a low ES and...
Liked On: 02-01-2023, 06:45 PM
Been a while posting something up, too busy training up the new GWP pup for the last 4 months because it’s time to retire the old Vizsla. He got all the basic hand signals sorted so don’t need to...
Liked On: 01-01-2023, 08:43 PM
So I post plenty about vintage rifles and particularly single shots Not so much about my hunting, but I do hunt a lot This is about hunting and gunsmithing so worth sharing My Primary Big...
Liked On: 01-01-2023, 12:55 PM
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Liked On: 30-12-2022, 08:19 PM
Gidday folks Over the last few years I've been thinking a lot about my family - who on my maternal side arrived in the Nelson area in the early 1850s. By the 1860s they had acquired land and were...
Liked On: 30-12-2022, 06:32 AM
With our family Christmas having been disrupted due to COVID sickness I found myself in the unbelievable position of having a leave pass to head for the hills as soon as Xmas lunch was dusted. ...
Liked On: 29-12-2022, 09:27 PM