That is the false sense of safety/nobody else is here that contributes IMHO to these shootings/nobody else would walk in here it must be a deer....Id feel safer hunting 100m off of a state highway...
Liked On: 04-04-2018, 09:02 PM
Was heaps of groups set up in various places down the Desert Rd!
Liked On: 04-04-2018, 09:00 PM
Just don't get in the mindset that because you are in the middle of nowhere there can't be hunter/hunters around.
Liked On: 04-04-2018, 08:55 PM
One thing funny, is that this Easter weekend was really not busy at all where I am hunting usually. And talking to another party of 3 who went to Kaimanawas for sika hunting, they have never seen the...
Liked On: 04-04-2018, 08:54 PM
You can down load the 454 to 45lc speeds and shoot 300grn lead easy as or load up some 300grn XTPs that will leave the 44mags in the dust. It's a cal I've been looking at.
Liked On: 04-04-2018, 06:56 PM
Just don't get into the mindset that because you are in the middle of nowhere that there can't be another hunter around.
Liked On: 04-04-2018, 06:51 PM
Easiest way is to avoid the DOC bush during the roar.
Liked On: 04-04-2018, 06:46 PM
Its reasonably steep on the Waikato side but on the Tauranga side the bush goes for miles and miles.
Liked On: 04-04-2018, 12:23 PM
To be honest worrying if a deer will 'see' you particular in a bush situation is the least to worry about, they will sooner smell and hear you.
Liked On: 04-04-2018, 12:23 PM
I don't think there is a real answer to that one its like asking how not to get killed while driving on the road you can do everything right but there's always some fukwit that's to lazy or thinks...
Liked On: 04-04-2018, 11:50 AM
As I've always said there's hunters and then there's shooters
Liked On: 04-04-2018, 11:06 AM
I think the confirmation bias thing is being over reported. It is a solid "excuse" with a theoretical basis. I think that recklessness plays more part in this. Just take a look at the driving...
Liked On: 04-04-2018, 11:05 AM
Was just having this discussion regarding electronic solutions. http://iris.huntersafetylab.com/iris/ The problem is cost, uptake and false negatives. The cost limits uptake, which makes it...
Liked On: 04-04-2018, 11:02 AM
the issue with electric gadgets muka88 and there are some out there...is you could then shoot someone without one because you KNOW they arent a person cause they arent setting off your beeper etc etc...
Liked On: 04-04-2018, 11:02 AM
I stay clear of the Kaimai's during the roar to many people in there, also a lot of people that only hunt once a year out for a easy stag, i think they get impatient bashing through the thick bush...
Liked On: 04-04-2018, 10:58 AM