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Looks more like Lake Te Anau to me. Can't wait for the first big storm to come through, some of those shelters won't last long.

It's not unusual when bush hunting to have a spiker come and check you out if you're having a roaring stand-off with a mature stage. Sometimes they go nuts and come crashing in (and back again). All...

If it makes you feel any better I once spent about eight fruitless hours in the Fiordland bush only to get back to my vehicle to see two spikers standing about 20m from the truck watching me come out...

I don't wear crocs while hunting but I have shot a stag while wearing crocs. On my boat in Fiordland and a stag wandered out onto the beach 40m away. I was wearing camo crocs, I think that's why he...

I clicked 0-25 for the last deer (it was a stag at 10m in thick bush), but the two before that were 80m and 200m. The results will be interesting though.

Thank for the comments above. Appreciated.

I'm looking to get a set-up for pest control around my farm - rabbits, hares, possums and feral cats. I'll buy a silenced/suppressed rifle and consider subsonic ammo so that if shooting at night I...

There's plenty of good places in Christchurch and almost every one of them serves meat. Price wise, you get what you pay for.

I suspect the farmer will have plenty of options to get deer shot for free, so that's what you're competing against, and that will strongly influence the price you can charge. As a land owner with...

My Leupold 10x40 binos that I purchased from Cabelas in Wheeling West Virginia in 2008 had an eyepiece fall out and lost. I took them to Ballingers H&F to see how I might get a replacement eyepiece...

Well there you go!! Turns out I've had the wrong end of the stick. Thanks for clarifying that, I'll keep a copy of the MPI reply on my boat.

Just a heads up, I think the limit of blue cod in your possession at any time is 2 per person in the Challenger area, no accumulation. Having said that, the blue cod fishery is very healthy in the...

A good read. Thanks for posting.

Glad you're alive to tell the story, and thanks for telling it.

A reminder to all of us that things can turn to custard very quickly. I have my Garmin/PLB clipped onto my bino harness but I'll be...

Good shot, nice stag.

Nice work. That'll be good eating.

Good on you for asking the question. If you've done the work to have the deer in your sights then it's your decision, based on your ethics. There will be no shortage of stags on public land for those...

Apologies 7mmwsm, I misread the tone of your post. My reply deleted. Thanks Gibo.

A great yarn and well done on the deer. Teach yourself to bone out in the field asap - I'll generally spend between 1 and 2 hours hanging the animal up (if not on the tops) and taking only the cuts...

A 1949 BRNO 22 Hornet that my father bought for me at a clearing sale when I was 15 in 1981. I (stupidly) sold it in late 1986 as I'd run out of money at the end of Uni. Starting about 10 years ago I...

Yep.

Without being too specific on location - Banks Peninsula or further out? The reason I ask is that I have a farm at Charteris Bay and we thought we spotted a red hind in the distance a few months ago....

Thanks Dundee and others for the tips.

Thanks PaulNZ

Looking for suggestions about the best magpie traps, callers etc. We have a group of 10 or so around our house and sheds. They are cunning buggers and will sit on the lawn and close in if I'm not...