Couple of nights ago i decided to bet this stag at his own game.Twice befor hes seen me first and hard to judge his distance.About 2 hrs befor dark i lay on a river bank up wind from his hide,trees...
Liked On: 26-11-2021, 06:58 PM
Some of the older forum members might recognise this spot as we use to take a few new hunters up there to help them get their first red deer in the public land, my son managed to shoot his first...
Liked On: 23-11-2021, 07:37 AM
Friday arvo I snuck out for a wander in the front country of the Ruahine Forest Park. I arrived at the Road end to find no other cars, always a great start. There was a bit of a thunderstorm...
Liked On: 22-11-2021, 10:46 AM
I like cant as well as cast when building my own stocks https://i.imgur.com/NG5wwknl.jpg This was a superb blank I bought in from the US and with so much burl and grain changes was done primarily...
Liked On: 22-11-2021, 08:06 AM
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: 22-11-2021, 08:04 AM
Looking forward to seeing it. Here is my one with some finishing to gohttps://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20211121/00ecb9bca1d97b786654b829a5406e29.jpg Sent from my SM-A515F using Tapatalk
Liked On: 21-11-2021, 04:04 PM
Thought it was about time I made myself another custom stock, this time for my #1 hunting rifle - my little BSA Hunter 6x45. I had previously posted a thread on the composite stock that I made for...
Liked On: 21-11-2021, 04:04 PM
Another photo of the pooch smiling from today. He much prefers when we shoot goats as he likes to find them for us and bite them on the bum to make sure we did the job right. Nothing makes this fuzzy...
Liked On: 21-11-2021, 08:08 AM
First decision the hound and I are going hunting at spot X, second decision we’re going light weight which means single man ten, light weight 800ml Ti pot and BRS cooker, summer sleeping bag, 1 kg of...
Liked On: 21-11-2021, 08:05 AM
As the title says... yes a big thank you to the Nelson Marlborough Rescue helicopter team who came to my aid today when my leg fell victim to a tree root trap leaving me with a torn calf muscle on...
Liked On: 19-11-2021, 06:55 AM
It is a two-hour-twenty drive from my place to the roadend and I wanted to be on location for a shot at first light. This always means getting out early, and as we move towards summer, the more so. ...
Liked On: 18-11-2021, 07:19 AM
Halloween had just passed and the swarms of miniature ghosts and witches had released their terrible grip on Christchurch for another year. Before the trick or treaters took over Halloween it was a...
Liked On: 14-11-2021, 08:04 AM
Havnt been out since the last hunt with Pengy when we were successful so was pretty keen to get out this weekend. Weather forecast was crap, wind, rain, most people would of stayed in bed but i was...
Liked On: 13-11-2021, 08:58 PM
Docking time, and I had organised a team to help on the farm where my hut is. Brian, Grandson Tommy and a couple of lady hunting friends. It was planned so that everyone would be there for a...
Liked On: 13-11-2021, 07:43 PM
My dad has had an old etching for years, a well known work by Sir Edwin Landseer titled "stag at bay". He's hobby farmed deer for years, stopping only recently. His best stags were all classic...
Liked On: 13-11-2021, 08:33 AM