When lambing is over and some grass is growing 2 things happen - I'm allowed back into my farm spots and the cockies start complaining about the number of deer they are seeing. So last Thursday I...
Liked On: 25-10-2021, 05:01 PM
After too long a Hiatus due to injurys and work finally I got out for a couple of hunts with my Son. Hunt number 1 started with a text from @Kiwi_Greg he was heading into an old haunt of mine and...
Liked On: 25-10-2021, 04:57 PM
When men were men. Well..here's couple of hard case 1960 stories from the kids' perspective ...Even the little hunters were tough! Tale 1: Our farm backed onto huge bush area and in 1960s...
Liked On: 23-10-2021, 12:50 PM
Been out a bit with the 16 and 20ga under the Arm, so far got a spruce grouse, several ruffle grouse and 6 shartail, and couple dozen ducks. ducks been, blue and green teal, pintail, gadwall,...
Liked On: 22-10-2021, 10:14 PM
Dragged a mate out to a new (for him) spot, for a change of scenery, and in the hopes of getting him onto a deer or a tahr on the weekend just gone. Left as early as we could on Friday evening and...
Liked On: 22-10-2021, 07:17 PM
Look what turned up in the post today! Thank you Andrew, aka paremata There was a post on here about the old days of deer culling in NZ etc, back in the 40s etc. Talking about hunting icons...
Liked On: 20-10-2021, 12:40 PM
Finally finished the seasons planting contracts in the first week of the school holidays. Better late then never I guess. Decided to take the second week off and do some missions with the boys. ...
Liked On: 20-10-2021, 12:37 PM
Our 7 year old had been driving mum up the wall. School holidays. I took Friday off and we shot away for a couple of nights. Still cold with snow around. It’s just starting to get a green tinge....
Liked On: 18-10-2021, 11:30 AM
Shot this hind with Rem M7 .223 and 69 grn Targex last evening. 251 yds slightly facing me. Aimed for point of shoulder. She went straight down and rolled into a damn swamp. 181382 These things...
Liked On: 17-10-2021, 07:59 PM
Back out for another walk looking for a some victims. The Fox 222 taking 5 for the evening...here's a few of them.181403 181404181405
Liked On: 17-10-2021, 03:59 PM
Boar with good tusks can do alot of damage - he's an animal to treat with great respect. Back in the 60s we had several pigdogs killed - ripped when approaching from front rather than sides for ear...
Liked On: 16-10-2021, 10:04 PM
We were supposed to go up North in the second week of the holidays but that couldnt happen, so Oliver and I went hunting instead. We picked it good. If we have left it any later we would have been...
Liked On: 15-10-2021, 08:02 PM
Thought id share a bit of a yarn regarding hunting local/ perseverance / Te Puke fallow. Like many (I suspect!) my hunting trips normally start with a long drive or jumping on a plane…and then a...
Liked On: 11-10-2021, 07:50 PM
Loving this Kimber. 2 fallow today bang flop at 371y (me) and 157y (take a boy hunting). Straight through both times but heart and lungs destroyed and ribs/shoulder smashed by the 168gn Amax. Shot...
Liked On: 11-10-2021, 03:37 PM
Fine bunny shoot evening in Tekapo. Our chch team has been shooting together 10-15 years and was invited to shoot block on a station near Lake Tekapo village. A problem site - much of it reduced...
Liked On: 04-10-2021, 12:45 AM