Youtube vid of our overnighter for some venison. We ended with a nice fat stag to take home, have a watch if you've got nothing to do. Cheers https://youtu.be/p8IlA_PFxdU
Liked On: 16-01-2023, 02:15 PM
So every Christmas holiday I stop making knives for other people and make something that I want to make. Last year it was a Nakiri for my wife. This year I got to make a knife that had been kicking...
Liked On: 16-01-2023, 07:58 AM
Out and about. Some pics (and something for stug to look at to help with the boredom). This was a good omen. 214582 I shot this at 340 yards with the 6.5x55. It was trying to make good its...
Liked On: 15-01-2023, 04:08 PM
So went for my first walkabout for 2023 yesterday. Goal for the day was to try and find a clearing I had been told about. Up I was at zero dark thirty like most trips and quick stop at the local...
Liked On: 15-01-2023, 09:03 AM
With some of the good weather of the holidays, managed to get out on the central plateau for a wander with the rifle, hoping to bump into a young sika for the BBQ. I left the car in a crowded car...
Liked On: 15-01-2023, 09:01 AM
6.5x55 Redundant? Last night. 260 and 340 yards. 140 Speer Gold Dot 214573 214574
Liked On: 15-01-2023, 08:56 AM
Had to take a drive to national park on Thursday to look at a caravan so decided on doing a round trip and take a quick look at Clements mill rd considering how much rain there had been and the fact...
Liked On: 15-01-2023, 08:53 AM
Day Two Face off the breech Cut and crown the muzzle Cut the extractor slot in the breech face On and off the action a couple of times to get the head space, extractor and final chamber right ...
Liked On: 15-01-2023, 08:50 AM
I got my first deer yesterday. A nice red stag. After two luckless day trips in the Southern Tararuas and one in the Aorangis, I went for another optimistic armed walk into the Tararuas. I had...
Liked On: 12-01-2023, 08:38 PM
More old pics from the meat days... Puketois 214148 Tararua head 214149
Liked On: 10-01-2023, 12:26 PM
Not much of a hunting story really. Left home at 6:30pm last night. We walked half and hour from a road end on heavily hunted DOC land. The wind was perfect to stalk a clearing I go to from time to...
Liked On: 08-01-2023, 01:59 PM
In what has become an annual tradition mopheadrob, uk_exile and I headed in on a 4-day hunt into the Puketeraki area. 3 years ago on this trip, I shot a deer using mopheadrob's rifle but could not...
Liked On: 06-01-2023, 08:38 AM
These are the first 2 deer that I shot and sold. I was 21 It was in the head waters of the Mangahao in the Tararuas. About 5 hour walk to where I shot them. The rifle is a Brno .222. I shoulder...
Liked On: 06-01-2023, 08:35 AM
Jeez it’s been a while since I updated this thread! That’s the nature of stock work, especially at this end of the year… I’ve finally finished the stock for my special .358, ready to head to Allen...
Liked On: 04-01-2023, 12:33 PM
So I post plenty about vintage rifles and particularly single shots Not so much about my hunting, but I do hunt a lot This is about hunting and gunsmithing so worth sharing My Primary Big...
Liked On: 02-01-2023, 07:46 PM