you COULD argue there is a good case for using a soft expanding projectile that in ideal world will use up 99% of its energy inside the animal and stop under skin on far side...personally I prefer...
Liked On: 16-06-2023, 02:40 PM
Despite shooting my first white tail in 5 trips to the island, this really was the highlight of the trip. Hope you enjoy it as much as I did. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n85D31_yp7o
Liked On: 13-06-2023, 04:20 PM
I have had the near exact same experience, but while carrying a heavy pack as well. While falling I knew that I was going to break bones. After impact (same distance as you at least) I found that...
Liked On: 09-06-2023, 12:56 PM
Had a close call in next hut area upstream from Kelly Knights 25 odd years ago , nearly stepped into thin air off a ledge in a side creek using torch light , 30 ft drop onto rocks , was a long cold...
Liked On: 09-06-2023, 12:55 PM
As an aside this is one advantage the inreach or similar services have over epirb.....if you are using tracking and have shared the link with someone. If you have a bad fall and are incapacitated,...
Liked On: 07-06-2023, 09:28 AM
Yeah the Kaimias those old tram lines can be a blessing and a bloody big curse! I take it you were on the BOP side. I’ve seen a few of these out that way. Seems to be worse from between the train...
Liked On: 07-06-2023, 09:27 AM
Popped up and into the kawekas over the weekend, On the first arvo my mate shot his first sika at 300, just a tasty little male yearling. The next morning, we headed to another spot and as I...
Liked On: 06-06-2023, 02:22 PM
Well, as it turned out we had a successful plan B. I wanted to do something for him: I missed his birthday earlier in May as I was in Germany. The day I flew out, I asked him if there was anything...
Liked On: 06-06-2023, 09:55 AM
Baking soda is good for killing smell, tip the skull up and shake a heap down into the nasal cavity and brain cavity, leave for a week and then knock the skull with the palm of your hand to free up...
Liked On: 26-05-2023, 02:43 PM
your Very lucky could have ended up deadly, good to hear you ok
Liked On: 25-05-2023, 12:48 PM
Came across something similar in Pureoras a few years back in an area where the native had been logged 50 or 60 years back. A long trench about 2-3 m deep, and deeper in places, and 3m or so wide....
Liked On: 25-05-2023, 12:48 PM
Just one more reason to carry a mustering stick and 'test' the ground ahead with it
Liked On: 24-05-2023, 05:58 PM
I worked/tramped/hunted for 40 years in Auckland's Waitakere Ranges (60,000 acres of dense jungle) and many times came across (just in time!) square vertical shafts of about 7-800 mm diameter, and...
Liked On: 24-05-2023, 05:58 PM
in my bumbag , always on me whether hunting for a day or hunting/camping for a week ... plb , gps , emergency shelter , first aid kit , cable ties , dynema cordage + paracord , 6 spare rounds of...
Liked On: 24-05-2023, 05:02 PM
Not hunting but saw something very similar back about 1990 when I was doing a small stint at pruning. Been dropped off at the top of the hill and we all all made sure we were at the bottom at the end...
Liked On: 24-05-2023, 04:39 PM