Yep myself and chainsaw have set one off. Up the head of Ferguson creek. Got bluffed after a long day of slipping and sliding on rocks, absolutely drenched and no way out with hypothermia...
Liked On: 17-10-2024, 02:13 PM
Thanks, your post clarified a question I’ve often asked myself and that’s when to push the button. Don’t wait till an hour or two before daybreak or a gap in the weather if you’re thinking that is...
Liked On: 11-10-2024, 06:21 PM
Have set mine off 3x over the years, none of the activations for me personally. 1: For a woman tramper who was in anaphylactic stress, her airway was compromised after bee stings. She was allergic...
Liked On: 11-10-2024, 06:20 PM
Although I’ve never had cause to set off my own beacon, I’m one of the people that responds when you do. We can easily get a couple of beacons per shift in our high summer season so we’ve seen...
Liked On: 11-10-2024, 03:25 PM
Spent a very cold winter night at Speargrass saddle keeping communication with RCC as nobody had a PLB and a guy had fallen on Angelus mountain. That was 20 years ago and he can still only manage to...
Liked On: 11-10-2024, 01:57 PM
Soooo doesn't sound like the band aids and asprin were going to cut it:D 25 years ago I would have resisted pushing the button due to pride. Nowadays I would not have a single hesitation. 50...
Liked On: 11-10-2024, 01:57 PM
A tramping mate had a fall into a rocky creek in alpine snow last winter, 2 broken bones in her ankle. 7 hours from road end. She is a hospital nurse, who wanted to wait and assess herself (shock)....
Liked On: 11-10-2024, 01:56 PM
After many months of planning with my father-in-law, John, we made our way down to Taumaranui late on a Friday night in August where our friend, Ewen, kindly put us up for the weekend and agreed to...
Liked On: 10-10-2024, 03:07 PM
Whatever you think of him personally he's past the 'fit and proper' sniff test administered by the NZ Police to hold a C cat firearms licence for a long time.
Liked On: 09-10-2024, 03:28 PM
If you rang up and said you wanted to register your M60, they would say is it a semi auto? and you would say no, and they would say, how many in the magazine and you would say none, its belt fed, and...
Liked On: 04-10-2024, 01:37 PM
Glad to hear no action is being taken against your friend. Sad that we're at the point where property being confiscated by the government without compensation is considered a reasonable outcome.
Liked On: 04-10-2024, 01:36 PM
So I sat in on a call today with my associate while he spoke to a gentleman from the FSA he could not have been more apologetic, for what had occurred previously, he told there had been mistakes...
Liked On: 04-10-2024, 01:36 PM
Thank you all for the helpfull information and recommendations.... I went and had a good look through these models/online and instore at dunedin..... the sea to summit journey ll model looked realy...
Liked On: 03-10-2024, 11:28 AM
1st October Got to love daylight savings and hunting after work 260329
Liked On: 02-10-2024, 10:50 AM
For the most part, there are a lot of firearms owners out there that didn't follow the news, aren't on this site and don't necessarily have anything to do with anyone else. Them along with most...
Liked On: 02-10-2024, 10:44 AM