Day 2 – Friday 2nd December Up fairly late at 6:30am after a not very good sleep, due to the bunk being a bit cramped thanks to the dog, and the noise of the stream. After breakfast I packed...
Liked On: 16-12-2022, 12:36 PM
Day 1 – Thursday 1st December Left Hamilton just before 9am and travelled down to Taupo. A quick lunch at the bypass service centre then out to the helicopter base. Flew in about 1pm. A fairly...
Liked On: 16-12-2022, 12:36 PM
Deer i shot a few days,i decided to take the sholders and make into roasts.Cut the hock off and about 3 inchs of the blade to fit on oven tray for size.Into the freezer for the next month or 2.No...
Liked On: 15-12-2022, 11:32 AM
I’m glad you started this thread. Often joked about, but you can’t really go past a 7mm08 as a do all kiwi hunting rifle. I’ve used a few but only ever owned one. This little Model 7, with a carbon...
Liked On: 13-12-2022, 06:48 PM
That sounds like a better way to drop into a warren, back end first. I was travelling along the tip of a little rise with a sharp drop off to the left and the little bastards had excavated into the...
Liked On: 13-12-2022, 09:52 AM
Tahr's pic with the mass of rabbit holes tells a story - but it can actually be worse. Untold acres with thousands of burrows, and zero vegetation left. All gone. Barren like a lunar landscape - and...
Liked On: 12-12-2022, 12:14 PM
Back in October, I visited a new area about 90 minutes from Christchurch. A solid 70-minute climb and a bit of a sidle lead to some nice country that receives a fair amount of pressure. It was a...
Liked On: 12-12-2022, 07:03 AM
Sam's mum was a colleague of mine in a previous life (for the both of us), she went off to bring up Sam, and for 13 years has been doing a damm fine job of it - he's a great kid. But there's only...
Liked On: 11-12-2022, 09:46 PM
Tahr You can get 500 55g Hornady for about $170 still I think. Cheaper than the primers.
Liked On: 11-12-2022, 09:46 PM
Haven't been down South for over 25 years. Jeeze that sounds like fun Tahr what a tally to knock off. My mate took me on tour after a hunt in the hunter hills and we drove through the Mackenzie basin...
Liked On: 11-12-2022, 09:44 PM
I see that in a couple of areas in the Nth Is - got to be the right night though (usually not too hot, fine during the day leading into a little afternoon/early evening night rain followed by dry but...
Liked On: 11-12-2022, 08:59 PM
RUMPY and myself went out for a wee wander this morning,Meg the big black bitch came along to keep us on track. got to hunting area right on first light.we tied boot laces and headed off up...
Liked On: 11-12-2022, 04:14 PM
Our best came when we made a bit of an effort few years back and shot 2034 in two evenings - albeit two weeks apart. All with very accurate 22s at average range of 70m. We're rather lazy but on this...
Liked On: 11-12-2022, 06:49 AM
It is amazing what you don't see. I damn near rolled a ute on one little hill that had been completely undercut into a huge rabbit warren - in the process scattering a few hundred out of that one...
Liked On: 11-12-2022, 06:48 AM
great stuff and yip a heck of a lot of fun..... fmj works fine in the .223 on bunnies so keep eye out for bulk bargain rounds...heck even the geko stuff you were using would work fine..there is a...
Liked On: 11-12-2022, 06:47 AM