This. Took me a long time to quit carrying my jeepers (64s) in favour of my phone as part of carried weight reduction, given phone is in pack anyhow. Maps are way better as is battery life on...
Liked On: 19-01-2022, 07:45 AM
I disagree with one aspect of your statement. Hunters can be conservationists too. I work in biosecurity, have worked for DoC for a few years as well, and regularly volunteer trapping in the...
Liked On: 18-01-2022, 08:22 PM
All the Mob have headed home after me & the Missus had our week long 30th Anniversary Bash at the new Bach, so l took the Lill Bro ,(who decided to stay with is family ,for a week longer) ,Missus &...
Liked On: 18-01-2022, 04:37 PM
The problem is there is a fundamental difference in approach between pest control and hunting. Hunters are you classic sustainable meat harvestors, always in the back of the mind os the need to...
Liked On: 18-01-2022, 12:44 PM
My little corporate wife who is nothing more than a little dolly in reality she is a farmers daughter who traps predators on our 1/2 ha avo orchard for a hobby. About 20 minutes ago comes running in...
Liked On: 18-01-2022, 05:16 AM
I’m going in again next week for 5 nights and fully intend on going for maximum tail count:)
Liked On: 18-01-2022, 05:11 AM
It was encouraging to see DOC trailing some hunter Access into the Nelson Lakes NP for the purpose of reducing numbers, a few other regions should take a look at this, opening access up during...
Liked On: 17-01-2022, 08:06 PM
There is no maybe about it. We need to be shooting more hinds. It may already be too late to make a difference. Learn from History - 1860s deer introduced; over subsequent decades expand in range and...
Liked On: 17-01-2022, 08:05 PM
Must have learnt from the Scots! :thumbsup:
Liked On: 17-01-2022, 08:02 PM
I wanted to make something different for the wife and over the Christmas period. Settled on a Japanese style Nakiri kitchen knife. My first crack at working with stainless Damascus also. Turned...
Liked On: 17-01-2022, 03:28 PM
No not really, just the first for this year so far. But on this resent trip the first time I’ve seen a falcon catch a bird in flight only 3m or 4m above us and the first time I’ve shot deer and a pig...
Liked On: 17-01-2022, 07:31 AM
Took the chance to do a quick overnighter on Friday, with the intention of hopefully getting 2022 off to a positive start. I've had a few 'getting older' injuries of late, so expectations were fairly...
Liked On: 17-01-2022, 07:25 AM
185729 Been using Sako ammo with the 165gr sierra gamechanger in my rem mag but not many left and hard to get now and want to save them for hunting, and also wanting to participate in a couple of...
Liked On: 16-01-2022, 09:05 PM
Greetings, There is absolutely nothing wrong with having one load for multiple rifles. The factories do it all the time. For your goat load I suggest around 43 grains of AR2206H. This used to be...
Liked On: 16-01-2022, 05:58 PM
I unashamedly burgled a stash somewhere around where you camped there :o The lid had been left off the bucket and it was full of water, so I "recycled" a couple of gas canisters that were going...
Liked On: 16-01-2022, 05:12 PM