Thanks for all the info, looks like this adventure will be a bit of fun. Will def keep it in original shape. This was a well used rifle around Te Anau pre/during Deer cull days. And I never got to...
Liked On: 27-01-2022, 08:21 AM
I wanted to make something different for the wife and over the Christmas period. Settled on a Japanese style Nakiri kitchen knife. My first crack at working with stainless Damascus also. Turned...
Liked On: 22-01-2022, 11:16 AM
Just happens I did take a pic 188389cull due to deformation
Liked On: 22-01-2022, 08:23 AM
....you're over thinking things. Get a 308, get some factory ammo, and go hunting. Reloading is a rabbit hole to go down later on....
Liked On: 21-01-2022, 06:06 PM
Life is good indeed.:)
Liked On: 21-01-2022, 11:10 AM
I'm blessed in so many ways. Family, friends, and ok health. And even to the extent of being asked to home sit a sheep station homestead on the coast for 10 days. "feed the dogs, feed the horses,...
Liked On: 21-01-2022, 11:10 AM
Took the chance to do a quick overnighter on Friday, with the intention of hopefully getting 2022 off to a positive start. I've had a few 'getting older' injuries of late, so expectations were fairly...
Liked On: 17-01-2022, 07:16 AM
No not really, just the first for this year so far. But on this resent trip the first time I’ve seen a falcon catch a bird in flight only 3m or 4m above us and the first time I’ve shot deer and a pig...
Liked On: 17-01-2022, 07:15 AM
Here’s to 2022 and to kick it off on the trophy front for everyone. Well my best head yet. He tried to give me the slip as the heard he was with went right. I dropped back into the woods to...
Liked On: 14-01-2022, 10:56 AM
Part 2….. After loading up quad I headed back up to where I’d parked previously. I still had a bit of light before it was going to be dark enough to spotlight my way back to car. I plonked myself...
Liked On: 12-01-2022, 12:03 PM
This story could of been a couple of pics in the .223 thread. Decide nah the forum needs another story. I headed up to my brothers for what seems like a annual pilgrimage( be meaning to go more...
Liked On: 12-01-2022, 12:03 PM
So, managed to actually get a couple days off work this week despite my last post which has quelled the itch to get out. First time out in the Kaimanawas looking for Sika. Two places I was looking...
Liked On: 12-01-2022, 11:52 AM
Quick update to this. Been slowly working on the finish, almost ready to start checkering hopefully next week. Pores of the wood 95% filled, just a little more finish required, then a cut back to...
Liked On: 09-01-2022, 04:23 PM
A mate and I had a rough plan for a hunt early in the new year so after a bit back and forward on timing we agreed to head off Sunday night. Plan was to camp at the road end and hunt the next couple...
Liked On: 08-01-2022, 10:47 AM
A mate from the mainland came up on new years eve for a week. A couple of months ago while carrying out a big trophy fallow buck he slipped in a creek and smashed his relatively new scope. The...
Liked On: 06-01-2022, 06:47 AM