Recent content by Tryhard

We just bone them out on site. No point in carrying skin and bones home. Unless you want the skin. You can remove the ribs spine and pelvis in one piece with the front and rear still attached. The make a back pack out of the remaining carcass. Check out A few nz youtube vids how to do it.

Can't get better than a Mercator. Issued to NZ deer cullers who would have skinned and gutted 1000's of deer a year. Only costs a small amount. More of a Skoda than Rolls Royce but will instantly tell observers that the user is a man if experience.

Hi Welcome to NZ. You will like it. Plenty of locum jobs for vets. If you settle in the province towns like Whakatane, Whanganui, Gisborne you will be close to good hunting on public land. You won't leave once you get here.

Interesting laws in other countries. In NZ we are not even allowed to load the magazine in a motor vehicle. But we cull with helicopters and poison.

Thanks for you help i'll give the potatoe a go this weekend. Let you know how it works. Cheers

Hi there wonder if anyone else has had the frustrating experience of spectacles fogging up when trying to sneak along really quietly! combination of no wind, cold air and the exertion of stalking really slowly be interested to he others experiences cheers

Yeah right:-D

Yeah . Fair call. The pigs in NZ only get to 200kg . Their tusks are only typically 150mm long.:)

In nz the pigs get chased by the dogs. Any boar that chased a dog would soon end up as bacon. Even little fox terriers make excellent pig dogs. The British dogs must be a bit wimpy:)

Get a 30 30 lever action just for the fun of it

Hi all Excellent forum you have here. I am from Taranaki in the North Island in New Zealand. I most often bush hunt in the Central Plateau. It is public land so you have to be wary about meeting up with another hunter. The Roar has just finished here. Got out a few times, saw a few but they saw...