Another good thing is to know your day pack inside out. this is a must, i have seen people panic because they can't find compass or torch, only to find them in different pockets from when used last...
Liked On: 16-04-2021, 10:43 AM
Photographed this big boy.Very deep in the shoulders.At 600yds up a step bushy mountain i was very temped to unleash the 300wm.But retreiving him wouldv killed me or my back and i might have wounded...
Liked On: 15-04-2021, 11:12 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, 02:40 PM
After a fair few tries getting deer on public land and feeling like a failure every time I went home empty handed, yesterday I finally succeeded. It was supposed to be a rainy couple of days so I was...
Liked On: 15-04-2021, 01:57 AM
For me it would have to be an old pair of Meindl boots. They would be close to 25 years old and are looking a bit worse for wear these days, with limited tread left and some cracked leather in the...
Liked On: 14-04-2021, 09:37 PM
The In reach is marginal at best, dangerous at worst.. I have a couple of mates in Fiordland at present and i am texting them weather forecasts daily sometimes twice daily.. My guess they are getting...
Liked On: 14-04-2021, 03:31 PM
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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: 13-04-2021, 11:50 PM
This pic is me pig hunting with my dog Patch at Kahouratahi; probably in about 1984.... Wearing my favourite hunting woollen bush shirt. I had that shirt for years until it was ripped, torn and just...
Liked On: 13-04-2021, 05:09 PM
The SS and double broad arrow means 'Sold out of Service'. The SPS means 'Special Precautions Scheme' which ran during WW2 when .22 and .303 rifles were impressed by the Government for Home Guard...
Liked On: 13-04-2021, 12:26 PM
165073 One from my first trip of this roar, went down to some old areas in Southland I used to hunt as a student. Roaring was pretty light as we were a bit early. This guy got up out of his bed a...
Liked On: 13-04-2021, 11:22 AM
Huntech Gaitors and pants, have had both since the 90's, and are still going strong, although i have replaced the top dome in both gaitors, a 10cent fix for 25 years service, Priceless!!
Liked On: 13-04-2021, 10:31 AM
Huntech gaiters. I've worn them for nearly every hunt since the 90's, still going strong.
Liked On: 12-04-2021, 08:10 PM
Shooting females makes sense, but in the wider picture it’s harder to achieve than it sounds. In spring, often the easy animals are the spikers. In summer the females have fawns at foot, so many...
Liked On: 09-04-2021, 10:15 PM