I worked with Salmon for 20 yrs down on the sea cages at Stewy Is. We kept some broodstock fish aside for a few years. Some of those got close to 30kgs and got to about 6yrs plus old. Those were King...
Liked On: 17-10-2021, 11:53 AM
Thought id share a bit of a yarn regarding hunting local/ perseverance / Te Puke fallow. Like many (I suspect!) my hunting trips normally start with a long drive or jumping on a plane…and then a...
Liked On: 17-10-2021, 02:00 AM
I have a full box. https://hosting.photobucket.com/images/t148/empiresafaris/B0014AF9-EA85-4BB6-8E73-673736258602.jpeg
Liked On: 17-10-2021, 01:58 AM
181276 It has been a productive school holidays with Jack shooting his first goat last weekend and now he has marked up his first deer at age 6. One very stoked father and an even more so stoked...
Liked On: 17-10-2021, 01:52 AM
4 weeks wait for ships on the US coast to dock, so i heard from one of our shipping companies. NZ is being dropped altogether from schedules due to the very attractive offers for ships to ply the...
Liked On: 16-10-2021, 01:44 PM
Makes it very tough for wholesaler importers. They have my sympathy.
Liked On: 16-10-2021, 01:44 PM
We were supposed to go up North in the second week of the holidays but that couldnt happen, so Oliver and I went hunting instead. We picked it good. If we have left it any later we would have been...
Liked On: 16-10-2021, 01:31 PM
I started with the 165 SGK, kills anything it hits. Then loaded some 165 SST's - shot same point of impact. And they kill anything they hit. To make sure things were all good I spent some time on the...
Liked On: 16-10-2021, 06:20 AM
Ok. Another instalment of my privilege to spend time with an old school meat hunter. Ian Mitchell AKA Mitch was a meat hunter in Fiordland, particularly Lake Hauroko and around the Tarries, The...
Liked On: 16-10-2021, 06:11 AM
Went to look at a 2nd hand trailer to buy in Chch one day a few years ago. Started talking to the old fella selling it about hunting as he had a few hunting photos in the garage. He was telling me...
Liked On: 16-10-2021, 06:10 AM
Brings back some great memories of Ted Rout and Bernie Bowater – Bernie with the hind quarters and Ted beside his blue land rover. We did a few trips up Takapari Road following along behind the...
Liked On: 16-10-2021, 06:10 AM
In Scotland right after WWII there was a legendary Highland poaching gang that used a lorry kitted out with searchlights and a modified anti-aircraft Bren gun mounted on the back...
Liked On: 14-10-2021, 01:25 PM
I know they don't fit everyone's budget but I saved for ages (I was actually beginning to save for a jetboat... But that can wait) and bought z8i 1.7-13.3x42 and it absolutely smokes anything else...
Liked On: 14-10-2021, 08:43 AM
Right, I left you with the carbon mould being closed up to stick the 2 halves together. 177407 I pulled the mould apart after work this afternoon and convinced the stock to pop out. ...
Liked On: 14-10-2021, 08:31 AM
You would be far far better served buying a standalone rangefinder and a decent brand of binos for that money. Doesn’t even need to cost all that much more.. vortex diamondback HDs for 4-450ish, plus...
Liked On: 14-10-2021, 08:26 AM