Good stuff! Its been super dry around here and we really needed that rain so Im glad you brought it with you! Fallow been a bit slow on making some noise this year, they were going pretty well on the...
Liked On: 15-04-2021, 03:02 PM
Well done, fallow are great eating. You will have learned a lot from the experience. When bush hunting, when you are in a good area with sign slow right down like you did, I try to stop by a tree...
Liked On: 15-04-2021, 02:57 PM
There is some irony there. I recall that DOC changed the survey technique they used in lake Taupo and all of a sudden thought there were less trout. Hence the bag limit reduces from 8 to 3. Then the...
Liked On: 15-04-2021, 09:52 AM
Don't forget the "discussion " documents as well where they ask your opinion and ignore it.
Liked On: 14-04-2021, 11:42 PM
Closest thing this resembles a stag is that it starts with ‘s’ n is male. transient spiker, most probably from a block of pines that’s currently being clear felled. Was hanging around (other side of...
Liked On: 14-04-2021, 11:36 PM
Re: hind breeding age - it varies with habitat quality; lower populations and better habitat = higher fecundity. I don't think it's well understood in a quantitative sense for density dependent...
Liked On: 14-04-2021, 11:34 PM
A few roars back I had a fawn hanging out with me for over 20 minutes. Maybe mum had just been popped? Not sure, but it was very curious as to what I was and came in to 3-4 metres from me. I ended up...
Liked On: 12-04-2021, 01:54 PM
When I was a kid I was diagnosed with Strabismus........Thats when one eye doesnt follow the other. What it does is that when turn my eyes to the right ( without moving my head,) one eye goes up...
Liked On: 12-04-2021, 10:17 AM
Doesn't affect zero, but I get a clearer view if I take my glasses off. In practice, I take them off for longer shots and target shooting. No time for such niceties when bush hunting. I'm mildly...
Liked On: 12-04-2021, 10:17 AM
I have perfect eyesight. I can see all of the blurry stuff really well.
Liked On: 12-04-2021, 10:16 AM
You might have ruined knees now but owning / being seen with a pack goat would most definitely ruin your reputation !
Liked On: 11-04-2021, 05:43 PM
Here's a mature one from last Friday that's well past its best. It's 72. The deer is a spiker. 164705
Liked On: 11-04-2021, 03:18 PM
164769 As for stags shot 2021 here's a stag my cousins mate shot the day after my cousin broke his ankle and walked out.
Liked On: 11-04-2021, 03:17 PM
What because some peoples ego can't deal with opposing veiw points? The point of the off topic was to remove the discussion from this thread it wasn't so some one sided bitching could continue in...
Liked On: 11-04-2021, 03:16 PM
Well made points Stocky. I am by nature a meat hunter and having come through the 1980's period of very low deer numbers I tend to feel guilty about shooting hinds. Now that there is an abundance of...
Liked On: 11-04-2021, 03:14 PM