Originally were wild fish and thru 70s/80s ish supplemented by Acclimatisation Society (Now F&G) stripping eggs from wild fish and hatching them / returning smolt to rivers.
Liked On: 03-01-2024, 08:02 PM
First shot for 2024 and started the year in style 240691
Liked On: 03-01-2024, 07:54 PM
Fella that used to work for us in culverden used to take his big flash boat up there every time he had a day off and float around drinking beers with his St Bernard dog and pretending to fish, he...
Liked On: 03-01-2024, 07:53 PM
Just spat my Tui all over the computer:ORLY:
Liked On: 03-01-2024, 07:03 AM
Sorry Mike. My reply was a bit tongue in cheek. I'm in central otago. Brads would be closer for you. Sent from my GT-I9300 using Tapatalk
Liked On: 03-01-2024, 07:02 AM
240730 Photos taken a minute apart - cattle detected at around 700m
Liked On: 03-01-2024, 06:55 AM
I've shot more runts/poorly grown deer over the last 12 months than ever before. Their heads look out of proportion to their body size. And Ive shot a mature dry hind and a dry doe on my last 2 hunts...
Liked On: 03-01-2024, 06:46 AM
I use AVM on all three of my patrols. Have never played up, unlike the auto FWH that came standard on them. BUT their one weak point is their tiny long T4 bolts that hold the ally cover on, can be...
Liked On: 02-01-2024, 10:07 PM
This looks like a pretty decent scope for hunting from them https://www.schmidtundbender.de/en/products/hunting/3-18x42-meta.html Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk
Liked On: 02-01-2024, 10:02 PM
Surely you’re taking the piss ? Why carry water at all when the back country’s full of it.
Liked On: 02-01-2024, 05:33 PM
Went to the range to try a cold clean bore shot from my Sako Creedmoor today. I fired 1 shot from a cold clean barrel then a second shot straight after it. The DPT is MOA so 3" at 300M pretty happy...
Liked On: 02-01-2024, 05:31 PM
Had a couple of young kids (14 and 8) camping, they saw my rifle and were calling it a sniper rifle, they play games on their phone killing people, I think that is why any nutter with a chip on their...
Liked On: 02-01-2024, 09:50 AM
If you are seeing dear then thats half the battle, now all you have to do is fine tune your hunting skills to a point where you can get a shot off. You need to be seeing them before they see you,...
Liked On: 01-01-2024, 07:59 PM
oh damn...here we go again.... what Barry means is round chambered and bolt NOT SHUT...... we can leave the pedantic terms out of it for that is enough.... LOL.
Liked On: 01-01-2024, 07:57 PM
well this snippet of advice will go against the grain of MOST shop sales folks...and the open country hunters...if you are bush hunting and expect to be less than hundred yards from deer...winchester...
Liked On: 01-01-2024, 07:55 PM