I would also love to know from those who have handed in their firearms as to whether they were happy with the compensation they received. Maybe you could comment here.

My mate and I both owned 22 slug guns and our houses faced each other across my dad's paddock approx 100 yards apart. We used to stand facing each other and allowing for the pellet drop had turns shoo...

This isnt from me. Baz sent it to me in an e-mail to put on the site. It covers both trout and deer so tossed a coin. The outdoors won.
The Introduction Of Trout Into The Upper Ruakituri River
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Sue and I spend a lot of time up in huts as we make our living possuming. As you know you can only play so many games of solitare by candlelight before getting bored silly. So have started writing a f...

How (not) to catch a deer.... *This is funny !! Why we shoot deer in the wild (A letter from someone who wants to remainanonymous, who farms, writes well and actually tried this) I had this idea that ...

We had a deercullers reunion at the Wairake hotel, Taupo about 1979 give or take a year or two..
Myself and another were in a final roar off for the roar competition, we would stand on the back o...

I stayed in a hut in the Tararuas when I had just started hunting with a mate and we were late starting the walk so go to the hut in the dark and was met by 4 guys that were on there way out. They wer...

completed 4 day tramp in the tararuas  this cristmas and found sort of a stash along the way it ,was  a fairly large one with lock up boxes that had rifleman squad written all over it now I never tamp...