Rain, river and a few deer Arrived near Taihape for a few days of hunting and fishing while my partner went riding. The first night saw a few temping deer about 600metres across the river from...
Liked On: 26-11-2022, 09:15 PM
Hi all Not sure why I feel compelled to post a story of my modest success, hopefully not seen to be self congratulatory it’s just I enjoy reading of others hunts, successful or not, so maybe I’m...
Liked On: 23-11-2022, 07:04 AM
Many years ago I went into the Copland (Welcome Flat..with those lovely hot pools). Loved the place...just back in NZ after a year in Vietnam and an Army mate and I just wanted peace, perfect peace....
Liked On: 21-11-2022, 06:30 PM
A few photos from a recent trip to Doubtful Sound and beyond. 210746 210747 210748 210749 210750
Liked On: 20-11-2022, 07:41 PM
Bobba...thats like the old saying "a man without a knife is like a dog without a dick" taking that further..what is a dog that doesnt have a dick??? thats right a bitch and I dont want to be...
Liked On: 18-11-2022, 09:27 PM
I had been fizzing for the Canterbury Show Day long weekend with a multi-day trip planned to the Lewis Pass. A week out with increasing dismay I watched the forecast get worse by the day until a...
Liked On: 18-11-2022, 01:42 PM
so update- its been 9 months since i posted- my back is fine- no pain- its as tho nothing happened. I injured me shoulder in March back on the tools for 1 day- gosh darn it. Shoulders been frozen...
Liked On: 16-11-2022, 09:31 PM
I find nothing more exciting than trekking through haunts of our forefathers with stories of magnificent animals seen and shot under testing conditions in hobnail boots, a bag of rice and wool...
Liked On: 16-11-2022, 08:23 PM
Recently a good bugger on this forum rugerman kindly gave me his old film camera to put to use. Far fancier than my previous camera it needed a good test run - Goat country it was. 8 goats knocked...
Liked On: 16-11-2022, 08:21 AM
While the extractor can be modified to be able to do that there is a trick you can do by pushing hard on the middle of the extractor beside the bolt you push the it home. It forces the extractor out...
Liked On: 13-11-2022, 09:52 PM
I was shooting for living up there in 1965/66. I got a lift back up the valley from Blenheim one day by Bill Chisholm and his wife. He was wearing a suit which was most unusual and refused to talk...
Liked On: 13-11-2022, 11:15 AM
Sam txted - I'm coming down . . . Which really meant "can I do some shooting?" Now Sam doesn't ask for much, he's nearly 14 and has only recently had his Dad come back into his life, so he's had a...
Liked On: 12-11-2022, 07:50 PM
My good mate Allen / amlnz decided he was free for a hunt today so we set off from mine at 0stupid hundred and headed up to my favourite bush stalking haunt knowing it would be hot....Holy smoke it...
Liked On: 12-11-2022, 07:44 PM
Well it took a couple of weeks, between shiftwork and norwesters (the area we were going does not hunt well when it's a nor wester), but a couple of weeks back Moa Hunter and I finally managed to go...
Liked On: 10-11-2022, 08:45 PM
Last three weekends mission Now just got to do fit out 209619209620209621209622209623209624
Liked On: 09-11-2022, 07:19 AM