Ive had two and really rate them , they aren't designed to be pushing through tight scrub all day . I like that they are lightweight and can stay in my pack until I need it. We had four wet days...
Liked On: 20-07-2023, 03:13 PM
Hi, I just come back from a five days mission in the same area where I went with a friend. Plenty of skinny deer about. I shot a young hind and got 3kg of meat all up (2 backsteaks and all the meat...
Liked On: 20-07-2023, 02:05 PM
Oamaru private has been "hammered" at night time for 40 plus years, haven't been there since Air Charter "lost" it. Sika eat a lot of leaf litter at this time of the year, won't find much of it out...
Liked On: 19-07-2023, 09:44 AM
Left the hut and ran across a little pig within 500m. Dropped him and dragged him back to the meat safe 229128 Then carried on up the hill, and found a Sika hind 229130 Carrying that out,...
Liked On: 18-07-2023, 01:08 PM
Its amazing how many people use that site, and yet in all mine and brothers trips up there, we never arrived to find it in use. That campsite could tell some stories of its own!
Liked On: 17-07-2023, 10:35 AM
Your second photo. Not sure about now but 45 through to 25 years ago it always held velvet stags. There was a well defined track up out of the creek to those old slip/ feeding areas. I too saw the...
Liked On: 17-07-2023, 10:34 AM
More random old pics from the same area in the Ruahines. 228749 228750 228751 228752
Liked On: 12-07-2023, 01:59 PM
If there was one hut I hated, it was the triangle. Not the hut itself but the mind tricks the walk back up to tops played on me. There is a continual number of benches with skylines. You never ever...
Liked On: 12-07-2023, 11:05 AM
Bloody awesome, thanks for cutting those tracks Tahr! When we first started hunting up there we would blindly charge off into the bush near the tops and it was a great relief to bump into the odd...
Liked On: 12-07-2023, 11:04 AM
Well Bruce , reading your post brought back memories of my time in that area , hunted there from age 16, walk in Friday night ,sleep on the floor of the original ski hut ,up before daybreak walk back...
Liked On: 12-07-2023, 11:02 AM
Someone asked a question about this so I looked back at some old pics. I hunted the Ruahines a lot over the winters during the meat hunting era. By myself and with a mate. 45-50 odd years ago. ...
Liked On: 11-07-2023, 10:27 AM
Hi all, just wanted to share a story about one of my annual hunting trips here in the Pacific Northwest. Whitetail deer hunting isn’t all sitting in tree stands over food plots and corn feeders like...
Liked On: 10-07-2023, 10:51 AM
Having never been there, I'd love to see Kiko Road open for public hunting again. A few of us have really noticed how "flighty" the sika have become in Clements over the last year. Either that or...
Liked On: 10-07-2023, 10:47 AM
No Dice… (Warning: Pleased be advised that no animals were harmed during the making of this hunt story) So, I’ve just gotta write about it. To decompress. A story which ends with nothing on...
Liked On: 06-07-2023, 11:35 AM
Thanks everone! I’ve been going over the DOC website for the last few weeks and I’ve found quite a few helpful tools. I’ve got the Topo50 app as well. My general plan is flying into Christchurch and...
Liked On: 05-07-2023, 02:24 PM