When lambing is over and some grass is growing 2 things happen - I'm allowed back into my farm spots and the cockies start complaining about the number of deer they are seeing. So last Thursday I...
Liked On: 25-10-2021, 12:32 PM
After too long a Hiatus due to injurys and work finally I got out for a couple of hunts with my Son. Hunt number 1 started with a text from @Kiwi_Greg he was heading into an old haunt of mine and...
Liked On: 25-10-2021, 08:58 AM
With the long weekend thought it was time caught up with my good mate and fellow forum member Pengy. Decided to take the friday off and if he was keen do a overnighter in a well known spot and try...
Liked On: 23-10-2021, 09:00 PM
As I had taken today off work and not working Fridays anymore I decided to race out for an evening wander last night. I drove home from work, chucked my tools out of the Ute and grabbed a bite to...
Liked On: 21-10-2021, 08:57 PM
Finally finished the seasons planting contracts in the first week of the school holidays. Better late then never I guess. Decided to take the second week off and do some missions with the boys. ...
Liked On: 20-10-2021, 04:08 AM
..have at it all you young at heart grey beards. let us know about the days of culling and meat hunting.... and buggeritall you meat hwks join in too..Rex Forresters books on the era spurred this...
Liked On: 18-10-2021, 08:12 PM
Well it took a long time but I finally got to take young Sam hunting. His mum has bought him up by herself to be a really fine young fellow of just 12 (I think). Some time ago i got started on...
Liked On: 17-10-2021, 09:27 PM
Taupo is an excellent range , I've shot there my whole life - Hell , My grandfather even donated all the concrete for the mounds and the smallbore range when he was running Firth Taupo a fair few...
Liked On: 11-10-2021, 09:21 PM
180905 My mates too busy to be sleeping,clocking up the stoats.
Liked On: 10-10-2021, 09:29 PM
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: 09-10-2021, 08:59 PM
When did the Police ever stand up for civilian firearm owners? not after Aramoana not after Christchurch not after the current "tranche" of regulations strangling our sport The officers at my...
Liked On: 09-10-2021, 07:00 AM
Yeah and Range Managers etc., annual reports to the police amongst other things. Who would want to take on the responsibilites? The likes of Taupo will survive but smaller outfits will just say it's...
Liked On: 08-10-2021, 08:48 AM
Yes, range will need a range officer on duty I’m told,unsure if everyone can become a ranger officer and go by themselves. Makes one laugh, Curly bulldozed the range out in the 50s, it’s been an open...
Liked On: 08-10-2021, 08:47 AM
We are quite blessed here in the nelson /tasman region for bush stalking because theres a huge area of country to look for a deer. One of the key things you need if you taking up bush stalking is...
Liked On: 07-10-2021, 10:11 AM
Prior to Cyclone Bola, used to do a early summer wonder from South of Taupo off SH 1 across to the Tauranga-Taupo flats below Cascade, up to Cascade then over the hill, down North Arm to Boyd then...
Liked On: 30-09-2021, 07:29 PM