And so after 89 1/4 hours of planing, chiselling, scraping, sanding and much thinking and looking, here is what I have. This is after the first ‘base coat’ of oil, which now needs to dry a couple of...
Liked On: 23-11-2021, 05:33 PM
I haven’t been on the forum for a bit found out couple of months ago that I have a inlarged heart no operation can fix it so now taking a whole heap of drugs to hopefully improve hearts function and...
Liked On: 08-11-2021, 03:30 AM
A photo taken by my hunting mate , I'd run out of 17HMR rounds and the feral cats and I were going at it hand to paw. Don't fucking run out of ammo out the back of Cromwell ..... the cats are big...
Liked On: 31-10-2021, 04:26 PM
When men were men... Here's "tough". https://hosting.photobucket.com/albums/e44/Cottrill/.highres/IMG_0226_zps985affc2.jpg?width=1920&height=1080&fit=bounds...
Liked On: 23-10-2021, 10:00 PM
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, 07:11 PM
Seems like a long time ago now (and it was really), but shootin pigs and deer ( an possums and goats) to supplement the meagre wages was just a natural thing to do. As a a young fella full of...
Liked On: 16-10-2021, 05:54 PM
Boar with good tusks can do alot of damage - he's an animal to treat with great respect. Back in the 60s we had several pigdogs killed - ripped when approaching from front rather than sides for ear...
Liked On: 16-10-2021, 05:54 PM
My old meat hunting days gave me a great dislike for Swanndris. Nothing colder or miserable than the wind whipping into a wet Swanndri on the Ruahine tops while trudging back to camp. Brno .222 ...
Liked On: 15-10-2021, 09:26 PM
I shot deer for a good part of my income for a couple of years during the 70's. I left shepherding to do it and casual mustering & shearing, and the first deer I shot I got more than a week's...
Liked On: 15-10-2021, 09:24 PM
Yep yep all good stuff there. Rex wrote a few good chopper books and one guy well mentioned in those books would take me away into the hills for missions, scary being a whipper with him and his pilot...
Liked On: 15-10-2021, 09:18 PM
well it seems these fellas are a bit shy.... I will add short tale concerning a member on here.... we were away on hunting trip way down south.... the 3 of us had roared up 1 antlered stag,then...
Liked On: 15-10-2021, 09:15 PM
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, 06:11 PM
I always enjoy their videos. They are always happy and enjoying the outdoors. As for dogs, While I might think twice about taking a dog where they are not allowed, we just have too many fucken...
Liked On: 02-10-2021, 04:03 PM
Might be a bit old school for here so Admin can delete if ya want to, anyway here is an old Yeomanry carbine I bought back from a sorry state. Lucky a mate had a good one I could copy the missing...
Liked On: 02-10-2021, 03:58 PM
Haven't been doing any knifemaking lately, but started this little project tonight. 1x old set of sheep hand shears 1x spiker antler (right hand) Just testing handle fit and balance before...
Liked On: 29-09-2021, 08:24 PM