Nz Bowhunting

[adam]

Graham Cash Nz red just breaking out of velvet.
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Matt Thomasen
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Matts ray 80kg
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Matt and sika
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Our good mate Rico
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Matt and red
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[HOOD]

I went hunting with Matt when in NZ he has a wealth of experience in hunting both with bow and rifle and gave me a heap of hunting tips and info and he is a great guy (for a Kiwi) :wink:
He and his girlfriend were very welcoming of me into their home as to where his brother Steve and his wife,
For me their kindness and hospitality made my trip to NZ that much more enjoyable. They have been nice enough to invite me back again when ever I want, and I hope to make the trip for the rutt in in 2007.

Steve and Matt I take my hat off to you and your families and thank you for a great time.

Hood 8)

[nortcom]

june 2004 ricko,nortcom my son jarrad and brother mat waiting for a tow home as the starter on the v8 failed.bit hard to push start her!! doesnt take long to get where you want to go when shes going :D
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[ricochet]

And the water was damn COLD, :lol: :lol: ,Taken on Lake TARAWERA, got a cold after this episode :lol: great photo Steve.

Rick

[nortcom]

harden up rico MISS the water was fine better than being stuck on a bluff.
HOOD glad you enjoyed your weekend with us,hope the rest of your stay up north was good.did you get to shoot anything up there?

[HOOD]

Thanks Steve,
Rico what was the problem the water was fine when I was there :lol:

Steve I got a turkey and a possum with the .22, I'm still jacked off about not being able to find that goat I shot, atleast you got to take home some meat from that short expedition.

Hood 8)

[ricochet]

Hey HOOD, after walking in water(up to the knees) back to the boat from two bays away from where the boat was,then waiting for a few hours to get picked up and then towed back to the car park,(in JUNE), got rather cold,so that is how i ended up with a cold,

harden up rico MISS the water was fine better than being stuck on a bluff.


Yes agree Steve was better than spending the night up on the hill :lol:

Rick

[ricochet]

Hey HOOD, after walking in water(up to the knees) back to the boat from two bays away from where the boat was,then waiting for a few hours to get picked up and then towed back to the car park,(in JUNE), got rather cold,so that is how i ended up with a cold,


harden up rico MISS the water was fine better than being stuck on a bluff.



Yes Steve it was better than spending the night out on the mountain :lol: did not want to get to the cuddling stage :lol:

Rick

[Barry]

Thats some great pics, truly cant wait to see NZ just such a beautiful place and a bowhunters paradise.

Good to see Hood had a great time there and had someone to show him round. :D

[nortcom]

mats red was shot on the ridge on the right hand side of the pic
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[nortcom]

should say left hand side

[nortcom]

panemanga tops block.saw a few sika deer and almost got a shot at 10m ,but she never gave the xtra couple of seconds.
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[nortcom]

me mate bob gow with his shark shot in the firth of thames.from memory it took three hours to get in
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[nortcom]

bob gow again with a 55kg mako shark
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[ds]

How are deer numbers fairing of late, word has it that reduced helicopter pressure has seen a rise in numbers?
Nice pics by the way and thanks for sharing...ds

[HOOD]

Yes and I'm so envious of Matt as the spot he shot his red is only 20-30min drive from his house :evil: :evil: some have it to good I think but half ya luck anyway.

Hood 8)

[nortcom]

DS... the deer population is definetly better off with out the choppers shooting the **** out of them.its good that the chillers stopped buying the meat due to the threat of 1080 tainted meat getting into the export to the states so now its farmed animals only.check out the game report of the nzbhs at www.nzbowhunters.co.nz .there was over 100 deer claimed for the 03/04 year.a good hunting mag to subscribe to is the nz outdoor www.nzoutdoor.co.nz or talk to ricochet and he might lend you his mags.it gives you all the ins and outs of the nz hunting scene .

[ds]

Hey Nortcom,
I have checked out the nzbowhunters website on a number of occasions, some of the beasts taken for the year with the bow is just amazing. Of note were the 5 Tahr & 14 Chamois :shock: now those beasts don't come easy, credit to those dudes.
NZ publish some great mags, especially NZ Outdoors. Nothing better than ending up in a hut with a dozen or so back issues to help pass the raiiiiiiiiny days :D
Well our prep has began, a busted up body awaits.

ds

[nortcom]

DS good luck on your trip.what part of south island are you hunting in. the owner of the farm im on was in the landsbrough valley three weeks ago for a week tramping and he was saying they encountered a chamios that was snozzing on the track.me mate bob was down hari hari way in january this year,he missed out but his2 mates ended up with 5 chamios between them.they were encountering sign only 100m off the road.the ones he had shots at wernt to far away but it took hour n half to get to them due to the sheer steepness of the country down there as you would know.your training is a good idea ,you got to be fit to chase thar and chamios around the hills all day.have you been lucky on your previous trips?

[ds]

Nortcom,
Not 100% sure of our exact destination, though it«ÉŸs looking like the Karangarua in Westland. Though if on our arrival the Westcoast is coping a hiding we may consider something on the East, say the Rangitata or the Rakia.

Hari Hari is a great little town, not the likely location to find a bowhunting club hey. We chanced upon them during a shoot once, great bunch of fellas, surprised at the turn out, must have had the whole town shooting that day. 5 Chamois is a great effort :shock:, we too have found them close to the road on occasions, only problem for us is that it's a long to come for a side creek... we long for the real hills :D .
As far critters taken I busted a buck of just less than 8 inches in the Whataroa. My bro got a 9 1/4 inch buck in the Wanganui some year back and a couple of others here and there, though as you can imagine many mile between beasts.

Really looking forward to slugging that pack into the mountains again, you folks a real lucky we got nothing that compares (mountains) here in Aus.

Thanx for the kudos mate«É∂ds

[nortcom]

rat hunting at the local rubbish dump at kaikohe in 1990 61 rats shot for the night,3 days of very sore fingers.using fibreglass fish arrows with .223 shells on the end.when i lived in rotorua ,the tirau dump was also a good spot to go to and have a few beers while shooting rats with ya mates.
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[Arra Slinger]

holy crap man



Whats trophy size :wink: :wink:

[nortcom]

my son jarrad and i and his first wallaby,taken on the same trip that the jet boat broke down,riccochett also managed to knock one over,though living up to his nz name ricoMISS,he missed the one he was aming for and caught the wallabys unfortunate mate that was behid him.
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[nortcom]

riccoMISS and his first nz wallaby,june 2003

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[nortcom]

bob gow and a white tail deer shot on stewart island,which you can find at the bottom of the south island.
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[Sparra]

Great pics Nortcom...Over here if we posted pic's of wallabies we would get strung up....

[ricochet]

riccochett also managed to knock one over,though living up to his nz name ricoMISS,he missed the one he was aming for and caught the wallabys unfortunate mate that was behid him.



Hey Nortcom a hit is a hit,and don't believe Mathew it was the one i was aiming at :lol:

Rick

[ricochet]

Great pics Nortcom...Over here if we posted pic's of wallabies we would get strung up....



No need to worry Sparra,the wallaby has been introduced from australia,so is a declared pest over there,so are the following introduced species from Australia.

**Possum
**Magpie
**Black Swan

Just think if the NZ conservation department got rid of all the intoduced animals from NZ, there would be nothing left but Kiwi's (Bird),

Rick

[nortcom]

when things go well,the 5 goats were shot within 1mintue,came down on top of them and let rip with home made arrows tipped with ribtecks.
Ta heke 1990.
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[ricochet]

Here is Steve with his 31 inch goat



http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y63/ricochetrabbit/31inchgoat1Steves.jpg




Rick

[jindydiver]

My family and I are off to Hawkes Bay in August for a few weeks and we are going to spend a week or so at a friends batch up at Taupo. Can anybody give me any info on the how, what and where of hunting the areas around Taupo or Napier?

[nortcom]

hi jindy,taupo has plenty of hunting around it.you have the kaimanawa and kaweka forests close by ,famous for its sika deer.they have plenty of huts that you can tramp to and hunt from.costs nothing to obtain a permit,which you can get from D.O.C or a hunting shop.the huts you have to pay a minimal fee to stay in.check out www.helisika.co.nz they have alot of info on the huts in these parks and about there chopper service or you can do a google search and it should bring up alot of info.if you can get to rotorua for a weekend i can jack you up a hunt with the brother as i did for HOOD.rotorua is 1 hour drive north of taupo.i can lend you a vid on sika deer ,very informative but no bowhunting on it.if you want a lend pm me with your address.

[jindydiver]

Thanks Nortcom

PM sent

[ricochet]

Steve- Have you let Matthew know about this :lol: :lol:


if you can get to rotorua for a weekend i can jack you up a hunt with the brother

[nortcom]

as you know rick,mat is allways out and about ,so its no probs to slip somebody in,plus august is still 4 months away :wink:

[nortcom]

went out for a hour this afternoon for a look at the local lake seeing we have had 3days of good rainfall.manged to shoot 10. the heavist is my personal best so far at 9.5kg.after my 3rd shot i had lost the floating barb made it interesting geting the carp up onto dryland
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[ricochet]

Well done there Steve, nice fish, :D

Rick

[XTfreak]

All very nice pictures. Looks like yall have some great hunting around ya. Some game I hadnt even seen before. The Whitetail especially caught my eye, my favorite game :D
Bill

[jindydiver]

Good job there Steve.
With the warm weather 2 weeks ago I was going to go get stuck in myself, but then the snow came :roll:

[HOOD]

Not long now till it warms up enough here and I'll be heading to the my carp shooting grounds :D

Well done on teh PB Steve.

[nortcom]

2 weeks ago.. a unlucky goat that came out of the scrub at 5m after i had spookd the main mob so he got it.
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chasing goats yesterday,plenty of shot opertunitys though anything with a decent head eluded me again
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[jindydiver]

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Love the pic mate :lol:


Great looking goats

[aussiehunter]

good pics mate..

pat :D

[ricochet]

Steve - That looks like the one you had tied up in your back yard :lol: , good to see you are getting out there,is that at the runoff?? posted those DVD's friday, so hopefully you will get them before easter :D ,

CYA
Rick

[aussiehunter]

whats the nz hunting mags like guys? good reading>?

been wanting to go to nz hunting since i was 16..

pat :D

[aussiehunter]

coach thanks for the info..

.pat :D

[nortcom]

makes me wonder what really happend when cam put that dress on at camp jinndy!!lol yes rick the pics are from up at the runoff thought i had better get out n about with the bow and practice me stalking 4 my up coming trip to stewart island chasing whitetail deer. looking forward to seeing those dvds. pat, new zealand has a similar mag to bdu u can check it out at www.bowhunting.co.nz another good mag is nz outdoor,it has a bowhunting section www.nzoutdoor.co.nz. there is also the nzbs mag www.nzbowhunters.co.nz hopes this helps.

[aussiehunter]

nortcom, thanks for the info..

good luck on the whitetail

pat :D

[nortcom]

will b needing all the luck i can get.. got a really bad habit of missing extremly close deer

[jindydiver]

When are you off to SI. Bloody cold to be going down there now hey :D


I am sure you could hit those close deer if you brought your bale in and practiced them. That 70 metre shot had my eyes bugging :shock:

Good luck with the whitetail :D

[Rabbitz]

nortcom,

Can you suggest an outfitter or shop in the Dunedin area?

I generally get across to Dunedin once a year, (usually I just go to Carisbrook to watch Otago get flogged).

Thanks
Rabz

[nortcom]

jinndy, off to stewart island on the 13may for 12 days hunting with 5 other bowhunters and yes i think it will be a tad chilly but brought me a decent sleeping bag and suitable clothes the bonus is that we got a hut to stay in.lol that 70m shot was a pure fluke...rabz dont know of any archery shops in dunedin but there is a hunting & fishing shop there at 922 george st.there are two archery shops in christchurch one has a web site www.aimtru.com hope this helps

[Rabbitz]

Thanks Nortcom,

I'll get in contact with them before I head over.

Thanks

[ricochet]

http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y63/ricochetrabbit/MattsPig2006.jpg



Matts recent pig taken in the Malborough sounds area of the south Island in New Zealand.

http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y63/ricochetrabbit/Castantlersfound.jpg


Set of cast antlers found by the property owner where Matt was hunting.
Rick

[Luke]

Awesome pics mate...What a nice rack! (never thought I'd say that to another bloke ;) :lol:)

Luke

[ricochet]

Awesome pics mate...What a nice rack! (never thought I'd say that to another bloke ;) :lol:)

Luke



:lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:

Rick

[Paul R]

Mate, that is one beautiful place to go hunting, what a view. :D

[ricochet]

http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y63/ricochetrabbit/MattsPhoto.jpg



Another photo from Matt Thomasen,taken while he was hunting on the south Island New Zealand, (Malborough sounds Area),looking towards D'urville island.


Rick

[adam]

Matts pig photo is beyond me, just awesome.


Adam

[adam]

Matts pig photo is beyond me, just awesome.


Adam

[nortcom]

stewart island..found off the coast of the south island at the bottom of new zealand.myself and 5 other hopefull bowhunters spent 12 days hunting whitetail deer.4 deer were shot and recovered 2 others were lost.3 of those deer were shot and recovered by the same joker who all so shot 2 reds a month previous to this trip in the rotorua region.

bob gow with his spiker
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bill with his hind
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bill with his spiker
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the scence of where the fishing boat went down with the loss of 6 lives
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stewart island on the way to our block
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[Piggy]

looks great Norcom well done was much game sighted ?
what block did you hunt on ?
Thanks

Paul

[nortcom]

our transport the "southern isle "
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the hut that has been in place for about a year prevously there was a bivouac
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recalling the days events after dinner
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ross and his bread..beats being at school
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cleaning the paua before shucking for the trip home
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bill and bob with their deer shot on the third day of our hunt the yearling was yummy
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a seven foot sea leopard that ross and i played tag with !!
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a fur seal that visted the beach outside the hut
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[nortcom]

sunrise ..taken from our beach outside the hut on the morning we left
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[jindydiver]

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Great report Steve
Pretty cosy having a hut there now :D

[nortcom]

piggy..from memory 20 odd deer were seen in the 12 days between the 6 of us and 3 of those we saw on the beachs.the block we were on was tikotatahi which is below port adventure.

[Trophy Bowhunts]

Fantastic stuff Nortcom

Some great photo's, In the todo list.

Mick

[Piggy]

Thanks Mate some great pics there I particulary like the one of the the deer in the window :D
Well done lads

[ds]

Great effort and well done to all involved. :D
Was the 'broadleaf method' used to entice the deer at all?

Thanx for sharing mate.

ds

[ricochet]

Great photos Steve, loved the one with the boys and deer reading the magazine :lol: :lol: ,nearly a smile from Bob tho :lol: ,you are getting very good at this photo taking Steven. 8) .


Rick :D

[ricochet]

you were right that leopard seal has a big mouth with nasty looking teeth :lol:

Rick

[PeterM]

Well done and some great pictures!

[Warlocke]

Beautiful country and great pics.

I will have to land on my Uncle's doorstep in Omaru, sometime, as a stepping stone to some great NZ hunting.

[nortcom]

D.S... :wink: rick...the beauty of a digital camera and a 1gb memory card take a heap of pics and hopefully get some good ones.for those interested the cost of the trip was around the $1600 mark that includes flying from hamilton in the north island to invercargal return. 3nights at a motel was meant to be 2 nites but our plane flight was cancelled due to fog, boat trip and shuttle service from and to the airport and to bluff to board the boat a stack of food and what was left after the trip we donated to the salvation army.

[nortcom]

my son markus who is 3 came out for his first hunt today on the farm and after watching me miss the first 2 hares the third one was unlucky.
http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y46/nortcom/markusandi.jpg

[Luke]

Good on ya mate, starting him early!... :D

Crikey that hat's lookin a bit old mate 8)... but still as comfy as I bet! :lol:

Luke :)

[ricochet]

Crikey Markus has grown :D , great photo mate, and top hat :lol: ,now where did you get that from?? :lol:

Rick :D

[jindydiver]

Steve
When you book the hunts do you decide then the block you will hunt? or is it drawn for you by DOC?

[nortcom]

luke..the hat is getn on a bit but its comfy will have to twist ricks arm again 2 bring some more over the next time he is over here living up to his kiwi nick name RICCOMISS :lol: and yes markus is growing .
jinndy..yes you decide what block you want to hunt and at what time of the year and book it with doc who have 35 blocks or with the rakiura land inc who have 12 blocks i think.the block we had had been booked for a year for the dates we wanted.it was concided with the rut for the whitetail.there are fees for the blocks and huts.if you would like the ins and outs on who to use or see about hunting stewart island i can get them off me mate that organised the trip,as this is his 4th or 5th trip.
at our block there were rifle shooters a week previous to us and they had shot 5 according to the charter boat captian.

[ds]

Here's a few pix of my bro Tony in Westland earlier this year. :D
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http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v508/dstoj1/NZ/ResizeofIMGP0241.jpg
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[nortcom]

DS.. brillent pics how many inches are the chamois?

[ds]

DS.. brillent pics how many inches are the chamois?
Not exact sure of their size, though i imagine them to be about 8 ".

Cheers mate.

[ricochet]

DS- great photos mate, awesome :D

Rick

[adam]

How good are all those photos, as usual DS excellent.

I felt frost bitten just looking at the first photo.

Adam

[ds]

I felt frost bitten just looking at the first photo.

Adam

Yeah that 1st pic sure looks gnarly, not for the faint hearted thats for sure. :twisted:
Looks like damn good Tahr country. 8)

[adam]

I'd like to see someone I don't like try and cross the big rocks in the middle.

I'd do it just to see the country, broken neck or not :wink:

[jerry redman]

those pics are unreal i like the one with the chamois up high in the mountain looked well earned, they are all unreal. jerry

[ds]

Pictures never do such country any justice. :D


I'd do it just to see the country, broken neck or not
Thats the spirit Adam, going out there confident your going to claim the beast will usually result in failure and possibly a broken neck. :wink:

Alpine hunting is a must do in my book and if it rubs you the right way your hunting will never be the same again. :D

[ozzyshane]

So true Doug a pic does not do the country any justice how did Tony get the blue sky in a NZ pic .How many mega pix is the camera Tony uses.Shane

[ds]

So true Doug a pic does not do the country any justice how did Tony get the blue sky in a NZ pic .How many mega pix is the camera Tony uses.Shane
ha ha, it almost ain't funny when talking about clear sky's and Westland in the same breath as you undoubtedly know very well. :wink:
Though when the heavens are behaving there is nothing like a polarizer filter to help brighten up the sky. :D
Tony currently uses a Pentax iST DL digital SLR @ 6 mp.

[nortcom]

went for a look at the weekend for sika deer in the kaimanawa forest but no luck so went and had a play in the snow between turangi and waiouru before returning home.
looking east towards the north kaimanawa forest with the snow on the tops
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looking west from the waihohonu track car park with mt ruapehu in the back ground
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[jindydiver]

Great pics Steve, I can't wait till I get back over there :)

[jpbon]

whereabouts can you find whitetail over there?

jpbon

[nortcom]

whitetail are found on stewart island and i believe in the dart and rees river areas that are north of queenstown in the south island

[HOOD]

Great shots Steve

Great pics Steve, I can't wait till I get back over there :)

I'll be heading over again in early January for another wedding on the wife's side. Hopoe to catch up with you and the family again Steve.

[jindydiver]

Great shots Steve

Great pics Steve, I can't wait till I get back over there :)

I'll be heading over again in early January for another wedding on the wife's side. Hopoe to catch up with you and the family again Steve.

Rub it in hey
I won't be able to get back over for at least a year now :(

[HOOD]

Great shots Steve

Great pics Steve, I can't wait till I get back over there :)

I'll be heading over again in early January for another wedding on the wife's side. Hopoe to catch up with you and the family again Steve.

Rub it in hey
I won't be able to get back over for at least a year now :(

Just for good measure then I'm off to Vietnam in June July 07 :lol: not sure what there is to hunt there yet but have been told already the what ever I want to hunt over there (legally) I'll be taken to good spots, fringe benefits of work. :lol:

[ricochet]

went for a look at the weekend for sika deer in the kaimanawa forest but no luck so went and had a play in the snow between turangi and waiouru before returning home.
looking east towards the north kaimanawa forest with the snow on the tops
http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y46/nortcom/k1.jpg
looking west from the waihohonu track car park with mt ruapehu in the back ground
http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y46/nortcom/k2.jpg



Great photos Steve, :D ,

[nortcom]

thanks rick..jinndy ..will be good to catch up with you and your family as well lets us know if youve got some free time when youre over for the wedding and i will see what i can tee up for you..hood.. vietnam sounds like a interesting place to go , watch out you dont go and stand on a landmine!!

[PeterM]

Yeah awesome pictures mate!

[nortcom]

first kill with the new bow and first time using a release aid.was good to knock the goat over after 2months of not hunting though the shot was a wee bit forward of where it should of been
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[adam]

Good going mate, been a while hey :shock: not good :wink:

[ricochet]

Well done Steve, good to see that new bow in action :) , and good to see you out doing some hunting

cheers,
Rick :)

[HOOD]

well done Steve. Good shaggy fella there.
Nw bow 1, goats 0 :P

happy hunting to ya.

[nortcom]

my son and i after a unsucessful hunt on goats and turkeys last month
http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y46/nortcom/m1.jpg
a good late afternoon hunt
http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y46/nortcom/h1.jpg

[---Damo---]

The smile on your boys face suggests to me it was a successful hunt mate ,wether game was taken or not....Damo

[nortcom]

he thought it was neat sneaking around after the animals and pushing through scrub,what topped it off was him shooting the pine trees with his outback tipped arrows and making them stick in,the smiles he had then were priceless.

[ricochet]

The first photo is a pearler:D, great to see.

Cheers,
Rick:)

[Trophy Bowhunts]

Good to see you getting in some practice before the Big Hunt in OZ. Better briing the young fella looks like he is ready to go..:P.....oops that's right Rick is coming...:o

Mick

[nortcom]

looking forward to it,only 4 weeks to go ,it cant go fast enough!! markus would be keen, would put money on it that he shoots straighter than RICKOMISS!! :)

[HOOD]

Well done on the hares Steve.
Markus does look happy and he's grown a bit since I last saw him to.
Ay... since when did you have a spotty dumbnation? (jokes):P
I take it that you hand has healed up well, seeing as your back shooting now.
Come on lay off Ric. It's not his fault he's uncoordinated between his hands and eyes.;):P

[nortcom]

markus sure has grown,he starts school on monday.have had tha dalmation for about 8weeks as the black lab toppa got hit by a car.it was my finger that has healed up good as,mat is off to surgery tomorrow to have scar tissue removed from his wrist so hopefully he will be shooting a bow again by xmas.as for rick ,he will and knock over a nice chital with his new bow while hunting with him and mick next month.

[ricochet]

looking forward to it,only 4 weeks to go ,it cant go fast enough!! markus would be keen, would put money on it that he shoots straighter than RICKOMISS!! :)


Who is this RICKOMISS person ???? i don't know this fella,he must be a kiwi:P,




mat is off to surgery tomorrow to have scar tissue removed from his wrist so hopefully he will be shooting a bow again by xmas



Sure hope every thing turns out OK for Mat, keep us informed as to how he goes.


Cheers,
Rick:)

[HOOD]

markus sure has grown,he starts school on monday.have had tha dalmation for about 8weeks as the black lab toppa got hit by a car.it was my finger that has healed up good as,mat is off to surgery tomorrow to have scar tissue removed from his wrist so hopefully he will be shooting a bow again by xmas.as for rick ,he will and knock over a nice chital with his new bow while hunting with him and mick next month.

Give Matt my best wishes for his surgery and recovery.

[troy]

Great pics nortcom. Love that scenery. Has been over 15years since I went to NZ and am coming over later this year for a better look around. Unfortunately won't be doing any hunting as I am bringing the 'Minister for War and Finance' with me but am looking forward to going back.

[nortcom]

troy ,if you are in the waikato during your trip over here and got some spare time give me a yell and call in for a beer or 2 or maybe a bowfish for the koi carp that are in the close vacinity