If it was cost effective we would be doing it. Sent from my SM-S916B using Tapatalk
Liked On: 01-05-2023, 01:10 PM
I wonder how long XR before people just sell their beef animals on the farm for homekill and do away with the works, cartage, killing fees etc etc.
Liked On: 01-05-2023, 01:10 PM
I'd be keen on doing a hunt like that every year or so, especially with a tractor to lift/load the carcass
Liked On: 01-05-2023, 01:09 PM
My costs of raising beef are of little concern to the works, or the supermarkets!!!:omg: $5.80/kg was what the beef processing plant paid me. 'On the hook' means carcass hanging on the weigh scale...
Liked On: 01-05-2023, 01:06 PM
Just leave the stinky old bucks for pet food :thumbsup:
Liked On: 01-05-2023, 01:06 PM
https://www.newsroom.co.nz/news/mountain-bikers-shut-out-of-national-park
Liked On: 01-05-2023, 01:02 PM
You can't get mutton as its all exported the Asians can't get enough of and the prices they were paying you wouldn't want to pay that much. The lamb looks like hogget as the price the works are...
Liked On: 01-05-2023, 01:02 PM
And to much red tape to do anything about it
Liked On: 01-05-2023, 01:01 PM
Damn right! we don't eat beef or lamb/hogget ect. It's Venison or Tahr at ours, I've seen the supermarket prices and just no, just bloody no.
Liked On: 01-05-2023, 01:00 PM
Wiltshires are the way to go, far less work and they taste better too. I was going to put these rams on trademe but never got around to it. Never been shorn, never been drenched, organic certified....
Liked On: 01-05-2023, 01:00 PM
If you can still find them in the surplus stores, the older british army goretex rain jacket fits your criteria of cheap, lightweight and its durable. The brits made their jackets from proper goretex...
Liked On: 01-05-2023, 10:10 AM
One of the nylon 'fold into their own pocket' jobbies is the way I reckon. They are not super water proof after a while, but the 'roof and gutter' silicon + turps fixes that. In fact they turn out...
Liked On: 01-05-2023, 10:08 AM
I used to shoot factory Czech slug ammo in a bolt action Mossberg mag fed 3 shot with an adjustable choke. Mid 80s. The Czech slugs came in a 3in paper hull shoulder thumper and a 2 3/4 in plastic...
Liked On: 01-05-2023, 10:05 AM
My grandfather was of the opinion that mallards would wise up fast to the fact that every time they got too close to a clump of manuka they got a charge of shot........ but I still use it.
Liked On: 28-04-2023, 08:42 PM
sod that grab it for the fire its colder than a well diggers arse here:O_O::D
Liked On: 28-04-2023, 08:42 PM