Longridge Hunting

20/11/2024

Really rapt with my young dog Spika did a couple awesome indicates on Sika deer.

20/11/2024

Sorry haven't posted anything for awhile as we've been flat out busy doing renovations on our place getting it ready to put on the market. So hopefully in New Year we'll be in new location in New Zealand for a change of scenery and definitely some new hunting adventures and game animals to pursue. Just returned from couple days away chasing some Spring time Sika in Kaimanawas just what was needed after last couple stressful months getting everything done.

24/08/2024

Decided to strip my .308 Tikka Bushpig today after hunting in wet conditions over Winter. Half the Kaimanawa bush was in barrel channel lol, and was presently surprised to discover the barreled action that I had Cerakoted by Hercules Coatings and Engineering service was in mint condition. There was no sign of corrosion on everything that was coated except action screws that I forgot to give Mike when he did work and they were rusted badly ( my bad). I can highly recommend this applicator to anyone who's wanting to Cerakote their fi****ms.

05/07/2024

Couple cold day's Winter hunting Kaimanawas for Sika with my young dog Spika.

23/06/2024

Sunday afternoon experimenting, testing the new Garmin Xero C1 Pro chronograph. If you don't know what a chronograph does it records muzzle velocity of ammunition out of a barrel of a firearm. This little unit uses Doppler radar to record rather than shooting through screens that you maybe familiar with and is so easy and fast to setup not to mention very accurate. I did some testing of .308 Wi******er 185grn factory subsonic ammo and .22LR CCI 40gr subsonic HPt. I'll do a review sometime soon on the .308 subs and my findings. Working in a hunting store I've had customers tell me that CCI ammo is not as good quality as it once was well I can tell you it still is made very good from what I found today. The 'old' ammo is stock I have that would be approx 10yrs old and 'new' recently purchased. Only thing different was new was slightly higher velocity average 1061fps ( feet per second) as against average 1048fps for old, extreme spread & standard deviation the same. Another Myth busted is that semi auto .22's loose velocity due to having to cycle the action . I tested my R***r 10/22 with custom carbon fiber barrel 13" alongside my Tikka T1x with slightly longer 16" barrel. The semi auto R***r won on consistency and velocity was about same. The Garmin chronograph made it easy to record this info and I'll do a separate review of this neat bit of kit shortly as well.

09/06/2024

09/06/2024

Here's couple videos of Sika hunt.

09/06/2024

Just had couple day's chasing Sika with my Vizsla Cedar in some new country and managed to bag a few for the freezer. Weather was a bit chilly and windy no roaring but managed to call in a couple.

27/05/2024

Happy birthday today to our beautiful girl Ruby who turns 13yrs old. If you're wondering why she hasn't featured so much in post's lately it's because we retired her from field work over 12mths ago and she's a lady of leisure these days. Ruby is doing well although in last few months has gone completely deaf and has lost vision in one eye due to cataract but she's still the lovely kind hearted soul but I know she misses her hunting so we try to make the most of her company as time is getting short with her but that's life I guess unfortunately. So she'll be getting a special treat for her dinner tonight I'm picking.

11/05/2024

11/05/2024

Went down Desert rd late last week to hunt Southern Kaimanawas talk about brass Monkey cold! Got back to car after day's hunt at 5.oopm and already - 3 degrees and everything freezing got changed out of sweaty clothes pretty quick before they started freezing on me. The area had had a hammering still managed to call in young Sika stag but finger's were too cold to work phone to get some video.
Went for hunt today to bush stalk a Red stag or Fallow buck not expecting to hear any roaring but we had a Red stag going well that we managed to sneak right in on he was only a youngster that needs a few more year's. While climbing a steep ridge we spooked a Red hind that stood looking down at us for a couple minutes I gave a fawn call to hold her while I got my phone out and just about to video her and she gapped it. On walk out the Kuri's took me into a mob of goat's that we dispatched to do our bit for conservation and some dog food.

10/04/2024

Good stag wallow in amongst supplejack central and first outing for new Crispi boots and really impressed with them light as and very comfy.

10/04/2024

Took day off work today to look for a stag before rain later this week. It wasn't for want of trying changeable wind and bloody feral goat's were a pain. Spika and I got in on several stags but couldn't get one on the deck. Still very enjoyable day watching Spika develop and grow with her indicating even if they were goat's lol