Over the last 11 years I've shot and found 284 deer with a dog helping or a dog with me. For 10 years it was Tilly the wirehair pointer (258). Now it's Bella the Lab. She's 14 months old and we have...
Liked On: 28-04-2024, 08:35 PM
Soooo, obsessive as I am, I have just scale drawn my current tent ( a leaky Hubba Hubba 2 person) footprint over the website footprint of the XMid 2p. It's actually not hugely different. Here it is...
Liked On: 27-04-2024, 07:23 PM
It took all roar to get a stag. 26 April and he roared and had a hind. 248849
Liked On: 26-04-2024, 10:58 PM
First walk in a while after hurting my back , negotiating the supplejack was tough with a back like ironing board hahaha. Nice to be out , but its baby steps , heard 1 roar and a brief flash of an...
Liked On: 24-04-2024, 03:38 PM
Had a great week with the boy chasing sika in our Clements road spot, he shot is first one in there last roar and was keen to go one better. He definitely did that!! It was a awesome hunt and stocked...
Liked On: 20-04-2024, 09:06 AM
Terrible roar. Haven't shot a real stag. Have passed on scrubby 8 point reds and smaller Fallow. Have only seen one decent Fallow. Saw the good buck last night but he gave me the slip. This...
Liked On: 18-04-2024, 10:54 AM
In March last year Don Yearbury a long time NZDA Whangarei member passed away peacefully at his home in Kamo. His Partner Dawn had the hard job of sorting through his arsenal and I was lucky enough...
Liked On: 17-04-2024, 10:30 PM
Daughters first deer and a wee buck at that :cool: super proud dad moment she smoked it at 180yards with the rem mag 248223 Then later that day Dad smoked this old 10 at 240 yards with the rem...
Liked On: 17-04-2024, 08:16 AM
Greetings, Step one. Buy or borrow a chronograph. Step two fire one start charge shot and chronograph to validate or otherwise the data you are using. Decide on the velocity level you are...
Liked On: 16-04-2024, 06:13 PM
For the last two weeks since my Easter roar hunting trip with my son https://www.nzhuntingandshooting.co.nz/f17/you-cant-eat-antlers-103569/ , I've been getting questions from my son as to why I...
Liked On: 15-04-2024, 10:23 PM
Public land buck I took recently. He was chasing some does while croaking his head off. GPS said I chased him for about 2.5km before getting into 70m when he held up on the edge of some thick stuff....
Liked On: 15-04-2024, 08:26 PM
Nevermind the antlers, just happy to finally get a deer with the ol .303. 248088 248090
Liked On: 14-04-2024, 06:08 PM
Nice old cull with the boys today. Pretty exciting stuff, had 4 bucks croaking around us, a couple walked past less than 50 yards away in full rut mode. This one came to about 30 yards away and I...
Liked On: 14-04-2024, 06:08 PM
Roared this fella in first thing in the morning came charging down 200m of elevation, shot him 30m from our tents, an interesting old character head from the southern ruahines248030
Liked On: 14-04-2024, 06:08 PM
Went for a quick hunt down dannevirke this morning with Hunter and Phil, managed to tip this not bad buy Ruahine standards stag over with the Hunter in the roar was bloody epic for him to experience...
Liked On: 07-04-2024, 04:08 PM