Greetings All, Sixty years ago on this very day and in the evening my father, uncle and I departed on my first ever overnight trip into the Kawekas. I have previously posted about this trip and my...
Liked On: 29-03-2023, 12:42 PM
Ive contacted Nth Canterbury about this. None of my business really except Ive been a member for 55 years and the org has made such great improvements the last few years I would hate there to be...
Liked On: 29-03-2023, 10:22 AM
Greetings All, I am afraid that overall Deerstalkers are not that flash at greeting new members and making them welcome. This may have softened over recent years but it is just the type of loner...
Liked On: 29-03-2023, 10:22 AM
I had one like that recently on a red spiker. 223/maybe hornet etc cupncore embeded in back steak with no apparent meat damage, Looked like it was surgically implanted. Only discovered when slicing...
Liked On: 28-03-2023, 09:20 PM
There you go.https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20230327/c01abcf0a7d1c9070a5a4b316c1d12ac.jpg Sent from my SM-G525F using Tapatalk
Liked On: 28-03-2023, 09:19 PM
Looks like 7mm or 308. couldn't be 270 unless it had taken another animal prior.
Liked On: 28-03-2023, 09:19 PM
Shot a hind a few years back. When butchering it, recovered a bonus bullet that had broken its femur previously. It was resting up against the bone encased in scar and connective tissue. The bone was...
Liked On: 28-03-2023, 09:19 PM
The Stags have started roaring so I took the young fella out to try and get a stag. We spotted a nice one and managed to close the distance and make a great one shot kill. Smiles all round. . As I'm...
Liked On: 28-03-2023, 09:18 PM
219774 Lewis pass old boy, 13 points if you count the nubs. Coronets hard down on the skull and teeth were falling out in lower jaw, very average condition for early roar
Liked On: 28-03-2023, 03:05 PM
Deer on the hoof weight percentage make up (approx): Blood - 5% Hide - 9% Bone - 13% Organs - 23% Meat - 50% I personally don't eat anything from the deer except the meat, so why carry...
Liked On: 27-03-2023, 10:31 AM
Another three on the Manawatu,heres two of them. 219539 All released. 219540 I am amazed that some of these little ones survived the force of the river when it was in flood.
Liked On: 25-03-2023, 02:36 PM
In the ruahines today,there was no roaring but I did get some lazy replys from a stag from few roars I did while sitting down to lunch.got into a position and got my boy to stay back and roar while I...
Liked On: 25-03-2023, 08:18 AM
Just back from a week in the Manson ,heard a couple of Hee Haws first thing in the morning. So they are thinking about it!!. Managed to score this small 8ptr, fat as a seal as you would expect pre...
Liked On: 25-03-2023, 08:17 AM
Heard a couple of stags roaring right on dark as we were walking out of the mid/northern Ruahines on Wednesday night, laid eyes on a couple of stags and a couple of hinds, mate shot a nice even...
Liked On: 24-03-2023, 08:31 AM
Quick thanks to Cigar for his 308 sub load (11.5 gr Trail Boss & Hornady 190 gr Sub X) I’d not ever loaded or tested a sub load, but had some Trail Boss and Sub X projectiles. Did a quick forum...
Liked On: 20-03-2023, 10:26 PM