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Ha, ha, ha - XR500 nailed it, I'm getting to the end where it wont be long before I'm one of those old 'gentleman'.

I've actually had a remarkably good life, don't think I'd change any of it.
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Yeah - had a lot of jobs since, but that just might have been the most satisfying :)

I looked after a lot of those dudes - some so old their tattoos had faded and melted and couldn't be see for what they were any more. Many were war vets and they were there because they couldn't look...

That's amazingly good money, and bloody long hours - I never did anything like that. I worked my holidays at the Silverstream Hospital looking after 'old gentlemen' who'd been parked there. Started...

Bugger me - didn't know that ........... cheers

Yep - Poronui :)

And I don't know if Joe Collins rings a bell or not ................. ?

And yep - it does ring a bell - and I don't know why ?

I remember the Lochinvar blokes but the Wainui Trust doesn't ring a bell.
There was another station there, can't remember its name - but very well known. It was just to the south of Clements Road...

Clements Road was the place to be if you wanted to see a 'congregation of meat hunters'.
First deer I shot up there I sold at the cool store at the old Rangitaiki pub. Looked in the book and saw all...

I remember pack horses in the Urewwera's - they'd bugger the hillside tracks.
I remember one that had fallen in a hole and there were three blokes trying to dig it out, then five of us - and we...

Forgot - the longest 'carry' I ever did was 8 hours, just got stubborn with that one and it did require some recuperation.

I shot a 130 pounder (dressed) a couple of years ago and couldn't get it...

I carried a 200 pounder once, knew it was too heavy as I could feel my sinews creaking - but it was only half a mile to the car and moderately flat. That was the Akatarawa's.

I did carry 147 hind...

Probably a bit of envy there - I wouldn't mind a private block I could hunt on.

Those 601's were nice, a mate I hunted with got one, the .223 I think - the old police model. I had the 600 with a...