Great attitude Bruce I'm 60 last week so only a boy compared to you but wouldn't like to go for more than a week without shooting something.
Liked On: 13-02-2021, 02:09 PM
Quite inspirational that post.
Liked On: 13-02-2021, 02:09 PM
grandpamac has inspired me to jot down a bit about what he has said about his Kaweka revival and what its like for us "mature" old farts. Nathan F is correct - it really is a mind thing. ...
Liked On: 13-02-2021, 01:42 PM
I am much the same mate , turning 64 in a few weeks and so keeping my fitness up to where i can still carry a full pack is a constant battle . After 40yrs of hunting the Ruahines i often think gee...
Liked On: 13-02-2021, 12:46 PM
I think once we get on the higher side of 40 this fact becomes a reality to a lot of us. Work, family etc. has left its toll on us. I have come to similar realizations in the past few years and I...
Liked On: 13-02-2021, 12:46 PM
heck Im only 48 and starting to feel that way...fortunately there are gents with hair greyer than mine out there hunting hard out to inspire me to just go and do it.... funny thing about...
Liked On: 13-02-2021, 12:46 PM
Good on you. Just remember the mind will quit a 1000 times before the body will
Liked On: 13-02-2021, 12:46 PM
All of us are running out of time, every day that passes is one more off our total, its just that some of us are closer to our total than others (and sometimes we find out our total is a lot less...
Liked On: 12-02-2021, 03:01 PM
I was once told you never regret things you do even if you do it poorly. You will only regret not doing it. Grandpamac you have lost your marbles but you will find them in one of those huts.
Liked On: 12-02-2021, 03:01 PM
Funny thing is mate I feel the same as you. 30 years ago I had the body to claim the world my own...just not the where with all. Now I have the means...I don't have the ability Fuck it all.......
Liked On: 12-02-2021, 02:05 PM
Went for a last minute goat hunt yesterday afternoon. Shot a little 'un, but will be tasty cos they sure are in good nick at the moment. Didn't leave home til 4. There were about a dozen goats in the...
Liked On: 12-02-2021, 12:18 PM
grandpamac I've got a Martini Enfield action that I bought as a complete rifle sans wood in the early 70s a Kapiti Antiques auction for $30. The barrel I gave away. I toyed with a 38-55 but...
Liked On: 11-02-2021, 03:25 PM
Thanks. That's what I feared/suspected. It's a shame someone decided to do that to an artillery carbine barrel just to have a shorter barrel on their bolt gun for Bush hunting, better ways to...
Liked On: 11-02-2021, 02:05 PM
I would leave it alone for AT LEAST 12mths....it will cost you...$60-100 to rethread/shorten it later on IF you find it too long.... its not easy to put length back on once its gone its gone.....
Liked On: 09-02-2021, 05:27 PM
Ah, MD, first cab off the rank eh... You still haven't convinced me how the chronograph is to blame for that. The issue is down to Joe Bloggs not accepting his load for what it is (satisfactory...
Liked On: 06-02-2021, 11:18 AM