All of this. Terrible forecast for where I hunt yesterday if you look at the maps but my local knowledge and reading into the forecast told me: Easterlies are warm Breaking them down the rain...
Liked On: 08-01-2023, 05:50 PM
there actually wasnt much rain (or wind) just a few short downpours it was humid as and the place was almost deserted one of the team made sure there was venny to take home.....a good weekend all...
Liked On: 08-01-2023, 05:50 PM
and they were 213965 213966 and when it rained 213967
Liked On: 08-01-2023, 05:49 PM
Thinking about that a bit more, I'll expand my answer a touch - the guys talking about the cordless saws have a good point and if you're only cutting a bit here and there they are a really good...
Liked On: 08-01-2023, 05:42 PM
If you could find a MS260 or a good cond. low hour 026 in all honesty that would be my choice, 16" bar is the same fitting as the bigger stihls which is a lot more beefy than the open tail small bar....
Liked On: 08-01-2023, 05:42 PM
Ms 180 is a good saw. I've been using it to drop trees, cut branches off fence lines, cut fire wood. If I use the bigger saw to fell a larger tree way out of side of its capabilities, its the...
Liked On: 08-01-2023, 05:41 PM
Either that or smashed bones getting churned around
Liked On: 08-01-2023, 05:39 PM
He’s probably not too far away from shooting his first if I can get him lined up.
Liked On: 08-01-2023, 05:39 PM
Not much of a hunting story really. Left home at 6:30pm last night. We walked half and hour from a road end on heavily hunted DOC land. The wind was perfect to stalk a clearing I go to from time to...
Liked On: 08-01-2023, 05:39 PM
I carried a 200 pounder once, knew it was too heavy as I could feel my sinews creaking - but it was only half a mile to the car and moderately flat. That was the Akatarawa's. I did carry 147 hind...
Liked On: 06-01-2023, 03:00 PM
Spent some time in the Caples Valley in, I think, 1964-5, with an open sighted No. 4 Mk1 .303 Lee Enfield that I'd modified: Monte Carlo butt, and a shortened, tapered fore end. I thought this deer...
Liked On: 06-01-2023, 03:00 PM
Probably a bit of envy there - I wouldn't mind a private block I could hunt on. Those 601's were nice, a mate I hunted with got one, the .223 I think - the old police model. I had the 600 with a...
Liked On: 06-01-2023, 02:59 PM
My dad used to do a lot of meat hunting in the Urewera's. Next time I go over to his place I will see if I can get some of his photos and post them on here. He has some neat ones of a pack horse team...
Liked On: 06-01-2023, 02:59 PM
So the consensus is basically anything you fancy :)
Liked On: 06-01-2023, 02:48 PM
A mate picked up a stunning student teacher at a famous Hastings watering hole in the 70's after he had gone down to the pub after coming out of the bush. Still had some Hoppes on him after cleaning...
Liked On: 06-01-2023, 02:48 PM