What a beauty, love west coast stags with those very dark manes - I shot my first deer on the coast a little spiker.
Liked On: 22-03-2022, 02:23 PM
Was about 12m3 before going in and I got the Hilux up to Bottom Gordons. A few tricky crossings with the boulders but not too bad. A great place for an explore. Went for a big walk and fly...
Liked On: 14-03-2022, 10:32 PM
We all do our best to be careful but unfortunately mistakes just happen, we are human and human error doesn't go away. In my lifetime of being around firearms, during the mishaps I have observed or...
Liked On: 14-03-2022, 07:03 PM
As others have said, I replicate what I use when hunting. If possible, I use a rear rest, a small backpack/jacket rolled up etc.
Liked On: 13-03-2022, 07:53 PM
before I got a bipod.....and when using rifle without it fitted...I use small backpack or sleeping bag in stuff sack under stock between mag and my left hand on forestock,if really keen will have...
Liked On: 13-03-2022, 07:52 PM
I used to have a substantial rack that I installed on the back of the wardrobe. Two big coach screws into one stud for the main part of the rack, and two smaller ones for the part holding the...
Liked On: 13-03-2022, 07:48 PM
W760 or H414 & 120gr Sierra Prohunter was good for 2800fps in an 18" M7 my son had. Not a hot load but very accurate, which is where you want to be. Trying to be a velocity hound can be costly on...
Liked On: 12-03-2022, 10:39 PM
My first experience of an unwanted loaded rifle was when I was about 16 years old – a long time ago A school Mate and I went down the Himitangi sand country for rabbits – rabbits were everywhere...
Liked On: 12-03-2022, 06:49 PM
Kiwi fruit will do a good job too - the acidity/enzymes helps break down the meat. The same method can be used in low n slow smoking, when cooking briskets etc.
Liked On: 09-03-2022, 08:59 PM
I think you left it hanging too long as an individual cut of meat. Not the end of the world, but less good to eat. I break my animals down in the bush, usually goats as I'm in Northland, leave the...
Liked On: 09-03-2022, 08:57 PM
I have shot 3 animals from same spot..when skinning the membrane between hide and flesh was pinkish,not the normal white/gray...all three were in good nick and all three were tough...nothing else...
Liked On: 09-03-2022, 08:56 PM
Used a clean rag, fist/thumbs, 1/2 blunt knife with sharper tip making initial cuts, rag for additional grip. knife for when flesh/fat starting to attach to skin while pulling off and neck was bit...
Liked On: 07-03-2022, 09:38 PM
Probably his hands. I'm not being a smartarse, he probably punched the skin off like I was taught to do years back, rather than using a knife. The way I was taught, you only used a knife to make the...
Liked On: 07-03-2022, 09:17 PM
Walt Disney did not write the Razorback movie. Has anyone seen that movie, man that thing was agressive and Huge
Liked On: 26-02-2022, 06:50 PM
Pick a still evening and go out to your spot earlier. Line up on where you think she will come out and hunker down until she does. Your brain is more than seven times the size of hers. Use it to...
Liked On: 26-02-2022, 06:38 PM