Search:

One of last Wednesday's wild goat skins being washed after salting and fleshing, and going into the tanning solution :)

249225

249226

grandpamac Yup; time to get back into tanning and also to really push the YouTube channel much harder. Got 5,300 subscribers now and it'll give me time to do longer videos rather than just Shorts....

grandpamac Thank you :) The NW boss is ringing this afternoon with hours etc. Looking like 3 days a week, which is fine

308 Thank you :)

grandpamac I have an interview at New World today at 11am. It'll seem a bit strange to be butchering again; I've been freelance writing since 2007.

grandpamac Plenty of food here :) It's the uncertainty of $ss that is the problem. I put in a CV (for the butchery) at the supermarket last week. Seemed funny after 15 years of freelance writing. But...

2 rolled seasoned wild goat shoulders. Bought stuffing, not homemade... Don't judge me... :) The shoulder bones are in the crockpot to make soup...

248972

248973

248974

As I mentioned, the goats where I hunt are usually in fantastic condition! These boned out shoulders show that. It's very rare to see wild goats with this amount of fat!

248971

I decided to go for a hunt the on Wednesday to get a couple of goats for the freezer. With my writing work now pretty much dried up to nothing I decided an afternoon in the bush would take my mind...

I was hunting with my mate a while back. We had radios (for safety) and I was on the ridge top, and he was below in the valley streambed. The reception was pathetic when we checked to see where each...

I did a story a few years back about a young possumer who used a cheap small (25mm-osh) Aliexpress solar light on each tree that he had a trap on as an attractant, He reckoned they worked well

To be honest... Back in the day, mine went down an old offal hole. Probably not best practice these days. That's why when I use this bottle up I'm hopefully changing to a style of tanning similar to...

I've been following this Inuit guy's channel. A fair bit of seal hunting (for food) on it https://www.youtube.com/@dannynielsen2/videos

I tanned fulltime for about 9 years and the (unofficial) rule of thumb for most tans is that if you've used it once you generally top the chemicals up by one half to use again. Unless you've maxed it...

I've just turned 61 and to be honest I still haven't come to terms with turning 60 yet! I am fitter now than I've been for years due to going to the pool 5-6 mornings per week and doing 1km of aqua...

Barry the hunter Not getting old sucks more! ;)

I've found the 4x4s to be like ice skates on wet papa hills, Fine in the paddock/bush etc. Broke my ankle in 4x4s while continually slipping on a a...

When I started pig hunting as a young fella in 1979 the old guy I hunted with used high lace up gummies (Ashleys I suppose) with three tricouni on eah heel. We used long self tapping screws to attach...

Warehouse Backcountry shorts for me. Might be different if I hunted throiugh matagouri or blackberry! But my advice has to be taken with a grain of salt because I've only worn long pants once (to a...

I've always wanted to have a 25-303. Just because anything 303 has to be fun! ;) My mate in Oz reckons there's still plenty over there

I buy the Surf Zone ones from Number One shoes. They're about 20 bucks and I get about a year put of them. and; I practically live in them!

I could only stand watching about half of it :D Give me "Mark and Sam After Work" any day if I have a lazy quarter hour to kill ;)

Barry the hunter You'll enjoy this vid :)

This is awesome! Goat culling on Taranaki Maunga in 1949! Old school hunting using open sighted.303 rifles!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pCYwML_94LQ&t=340s

"A dessertspoon full of whatever instant coffee that was on special at the 4 Square, and chuck it in a billy mate" :D

245144

I reckon it was one of their best episodes. Loved the climbing, but it's certainly not for this scared of heights sooky! My sphincter still hasn't recovered from the constant clenching; and I was...