When my dad and I hunted together(same camp but hunted separately) we had a system where if someone didn't return, someone at camp would fire a shot on the hour. Usually a couple of hours after dark....
Liked On: 18-03-2025, 01:01 PM
Great result. I don't know why you would go bush without one really
Liked On: 18-03-2025, 12:58 PM
This was on Stewart Island see article here (https://www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/360618722/locator-beacon-saves-missing-hunter)
Liked On: 18-03-2025, 12:58 PM
Take a mountain bike, it's a long flat boring walk before you get to doc land :P
Liked On: 14-03-2025, 12:36 PM
I have used a few different packs, and i have had some fitted properly. Yeah they can carry a load for sure, but like 199p said they just take so much of the weight off your shoulders, every little...
Liked On: 12-03-2025, 02:54 PM
Indeed. 270453 Load carrying 270454
Liked On: 12-03-2025, 02:53 PM
I use an outdoorsman frame. Nobody has mentioned how good they are to sit behind and shoot off in the tussock.
Liked On: 12-03-2025, 02:53 PM
I went from an Osprey aether (nice pack), to a Tatonka bison (solid), to a pack from yourself. In my experience, the full frame of the first 2 did not offer me anything more in comfort, or weight...
Liked On: 12-03-2025, 02:53 PM
You are correct. Most modern packs are thoroughly adequate, but do fall onto a continuum of "good enough" to "excellent". The older I get the more excellenter I require. Like the difference between...
Liked On: 12-03-2025, 02:53 PM
I was in Lee's on the Weekend. Farmers still got the gate to Tarn Hut locked from the road. Been that way since July last year. I saw others parking for the Wharfdale track by the road end. I didn't...
Liked On: 12-03-2025, 02:52 PM
The station has a ‘newish’ manager who allowed a few to hunt on the farm, but as usual it was abused with people wandering everywhere without permission. He has locked everything up to stop it and...
Liked On: 12-03-2025, 02:49 PM
You should probably have the Navionics Boating app on your phone and a gps point to find the spot out where you were as it is relatively small. There is another spot closer in, but off Akaroa...
Liked On: 11-03-2025, 03:30 PM
Another fishing vid out yesterday if you guys missed it :). Head a bit offshore in hopes of finding that groper spot! https://youtu.be/xu1yI1d_kU0?si=hRF4iSKc7qt2koTd
Liked On: 11-03-2025, 03:30 PM
Thanks guys! Yes I've including removing the tenderloins from the back by the short ribs without gutting the deer. Didn't do a great job of it on this deer but you'll get the gist 😂
Liked On: 11-03-2025, 03:30 PM
Nice. Hooked my first one on the fly a few weeks ago, then the braided loop that I put on the fly line 25 years ago slipped off :blah:
Liked On: 11-03-2025, 03:29 PM