Last weekend a friend invited me out to a spot of his in south Canterbury. Its bush covered rolling hill country flanked by forestry blocks. Much different to the normal alpine hunting I do! Friday arvo saw us heading up a manuka covered ridge to a camp site he has next to a spring for water. We went for an evening reccy walking along the track while my mate pointed out various gully's where he'd seen/shot deer and other points of interest. He knows this area like the back of his hand luckily as I didn't have a clue where we were. Nothing was seen but there was obviously a healthy population of deer judging by the sign and we did hear a few wild sheep down on one thick bush face.
The next morning wasn't an early one and we had a leisurely breakfast before heading up the ridge to check out a couple of gully's that usually hold deer. I wasn't feeling too hopeful with it being almost mid day not to mention I'm noisy as hell in the bush being 100kg and wearing full shanked heavy boots. We dropped off the side of the track and into some thick regen that opened out a bit further down. About 200m down the sign was getting fresher and fresher before we heard something crash down the hill out of a patch of native nettle. I thought it was long gone but after going around the nettle as carefully and slowly as I could I caught a glimpse of a deer trotting across the face below me and very luckily stopped where I had a window of visibility. It wasn't the best angle but I managed to drop it with a spine shot. I yet out a big yahoo not quite believing my luck. Not surprisingly it was a silly yearling.
After taking our time butchering and letting the meat cool down we decided to continue on our intended route which was to drop down this gully, sidle across and back up the next one over. We got about 50m further down the hill when a deer barked out to our left in a patch of regen. I started creeping back up the hill where id have a better view before I heard a BOOM behind me and saw a deer rolling down the hill right next to my mate. The deer had seen me and almost run straight into my mate! It was almost certainly the hind from the yearling id shot an hour earlier. We now had quite a large load of meat so with heavy packs we slogged it straight back up the hill and back to camp by 4pm for a beer. Now that's what I call gentlemen's hunting! The next morning we packed up and made the easy walk downhill back to truck and home.
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Doesn't a photo make a difference to a post. Thanks for sending me that pic. I have another solution for everyone which Ill be posting up soon using the image storage that Hairy used for his recent post. its free and easy and works.. coming soon..
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Doesn't a photo make a difference to a post. Thanks for sending me that pic. I have another solution for everyone which Ill be posting up soon using the image storage that Hairy used for his recent post. its free and easy and works.. coming soon..
Thanks for that mate, did the others arrive? Maybe I’m trying to send too many at once. An easier way to upload photos will be brilliant
After registration you will land on a page that has a ''Start uploading"" button.
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Press the upload button again.
When youve uploaded a pic a drop down box underneath the pic says
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Always store your original images on your computer or a stick or whatever.
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Great report, Have to agree with Headcase, Pics make the report. By great if we could see more reports posted and I think the reason we dont see as many as we used to is because it became too hard after photobucket changed.
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Re: becoming a bush hobbit Reply #10 - Aug 15th, 2018 at 9:18am
Great report, Have to agree with Headcase, Pics make the report. By great if we could see more reports posted and I think the reason we dont see as many as we used to is because it became too hard after photobucket changed.
https://imgbb.com/ does the same thing as photobucket and does it better. Faster, better quality, add free compared to photobucket..
“We either make ourselves miserable, or we make ourselves strong. The amount of work is the same.”
Great report, Have to agree with Headcase, Pics make the report. By great if we could see more reports posted and I think the reason we dont see as many as we used to is because it became too hard after photobucket changed.
https://imgbb.com/ does the same thing as photobucket and does it better. Faster, better quality, add free compared to photobucket..
clicked on n comes up no can go
It is much better to Hit the Animal in the right place, with a Rifle you can shoot well, then to hit it poorly with a Large Calibre..John Nosler
Just click on the logo at the top of the page.that appears. It works..but there must have been something wrong with the actual link I posted. Not the actual website it self.
“We either make ourselves miserable, or we make ourselves strong. The amount of work is the same.”