Well thank you Elkhunter .There are Elk in NZ but their called Wapati I once faced a Bull Mouse in BC s Mosley creek .Talked it out of going me as can be their wont in mateing season ,.Never hunted one as such ,
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Misguided
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A bull mouse in mating season can be a scary critter.
Welcome to hunttalk.
Welcome to hunttalk.
Straight Arrow
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Yep! Once was crouched under a bush with bow in hand, waiting for buddy behind across the wallow to call an elk in. However, it was a very large bull moose that approached me so close I could have touched his legs. Hesitant about startling him and getting kicked ... finally I gently waved my hat ... he snorted, jumped back, and took off ... thank goodness!
My buddy behind watched the encounter, laughing all the time!
Yes Your quite right It was a rather scarry event I was walking down the ' Mosley creek' really a river to go down the Homathka River in the coast range of British Columbia I lived in BC then. My 451 ML rifle was loaded with about 12 grains of powder & a 45 Ball to harvest a Francolin or Spruce grouse Ide reached 'Five Finger' creeks a very open Confluence When I spot a pair of Moose well I knew Moose are unpredictable So I cut to the river to get round them.When a crashing of hooves has me looking up the nostrils of Brer Mouse . Thus confronted I was not a little taken aback . I knew my rifle wouldnd do or my knife & axe .But I had read an article in BC Outdoors that if confronted by a Bear you cant out run it & playing possum likely worse . So I stood my ground and talked to it I explained my rifle was a formidable gun & Ide won a Gold at Bisley with it (Which was true) And that a smart moose would back off and babble like that adding rather 'unkind Observations as to his looks & ancestry '. . Well this seemed to perplex Brer Mouse , it wasn't something he could fathom (their not very bright) '& I suppose my confidence grew as his wained & he took off back to the Cow in the river I Took a photo & presently carried on my walk to Butte Inlett via Dumbell lake & the Tiedman glacial run off & Murderers Bar useing the old' Cleft camp' of Waddingtons road builders 1860s ?ill fated crew .this was a 12 day walk I was fit then .Now Ime 80 & stuffed but my mouldering bones might still pop up in Five finger Creak had Brer Moose been more assertive .I later went down the Klina Klini River From the town ship ? of Klina Kleene that was a long walk to Hoodoo creak but I took a double16 bore ex Flint, Ball in the left small shot in the right best sort I thought No heavy Hawkens junk for me .
Rambling Rudyard
Yes normally I'de just walk by Moose its just the Roar period they are un predictable It was considered an insult to call some one 'a Moose ' Ignorant un educated bozo Of which there are many .Between Snakes, Wolverines, Mountain Lions .,Bears,& Moose its surprising I got away with takeing such long remote 'Passages' as I called them . I think you get to a state where you think in terms of' Brer' Whatever its their patch Ime the visitor Never ran into Sasquashes but Ide probably see them as' locals' Ide pick late as the frosts much reduce the tangle of under growth and greatly lesson the Damned Mosquitoes Them I fear most !
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Straight Arrow
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Yes, I too abhor those Mozzies and Blowies!
Yes mosquitoes made life hell .We don't have them much in 'NZ but the blow flies we do .The Jest in the Forest service was if the blowy maggots get bigger than the meat just eat the magots. It remains a jest if I suppose you could eat the Magots. I et the Hoo Hoo grubs, Bear Griles probably would know .
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Any luck with the pictures? I like this description:
"goats are a bit dim. Maybe it was past careing"
"goats are a bit dim. Maybe it was past careing"
Dear Blow downer .Yes as it happens ile get my E savvy Daughter to put one on for you later.
Ile have her put me & my Wheellock pic too as it was a photo of me with the same rifle outside the Te Totara creek hut sent in by a poster That made me join this forum He dates it c1980 I would have my diary account I kept for the particular gun its load and results with it on any hunt .Ide give Samuel Peeps a "forty break " ! which I think is a Snooker term I never played snooker but a friend used that term .
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Can you post pictures of your Wheel-lock? I'd love to see it.
Yes Ide be pleased to, if via my youngest Daughter's flat glass thing .I cant get my 80 year head around these gajets more anon .
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Aye
Just scans from my diary all local mountains Hopefully five pics of Wheellock in use the stag flask is pretty I carved it in Alice Springs over Xmas 1969 Oh the flint rifle is 50 cal 26" round swamped to weigh just 5 pounds My idea of an ideal' bush gun' , I made a Flint rifle' After' Felix Werder of Zurich Brass lock plate but steel barrel( he liked brass ones unusual in 1652) I like working early styles pleasant bush gun I call it Felix .its 45 cal swamped 32"oct brl .
regards Rudyard.
regards Rudyard.
The pic of a sodden goat ile find same flint rifle as in above pics. The W' lock style is Suhl c1660s copied a fiends original Took his lock to Cawnpore got some made, but needing a lot of fettling & the Pyrites was ever a problem. Ide glue small bits into a wooden slotted rear that way it was fine for a shot hunting but be a tedium at clays or a 13 shot match .
My inlays where old ivory bits .For the butt plates I heated & flatted horn with a horn ball to put on the ground ' his tool box lid was missing so I winged them. I made two of this style & one' After' Louis the 13th' Boys' gun only longer & rifled brl . What's not shown is my assistant Mr Banjo Beagle Esquire he was camera shy .Useless as a dog hunter . But good as an extra blanket in my Bower my usual fly camp arrangement .Except blankets don't chase pigs in their sleep.! .
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