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you dont say much

You mentioned wild dogs as the smartest Jock. I wouldn't agree but will concede that there are some that are unreal in cunning but then every sambar stag is unreal in cunning,not just some. Note there`s a few empty hay band cords hanging,they dont last forever.

I haven't changed CAMO CAMO CAMO

Three words...... CAMO CAMO CAMO

still ok after 17 years?

Its grouse mate.

Start by ordering one today perhaps...the price will only go up the longer it takes.

The spike holes in bridges were always predrilled. Usually by hand in the older ones.

not worth two knobs of goat shit actually, I played inside with it realised its worthlessness and gave it to Ronos boys a week later.

Hallelujah, found it. Here is the man holding a very heavy antlered beast of 42 inches.

Re the 42" sambar Hank was holding in the pic here are some excerpts from an email exchange between Errol M and myself from 2007. On 14/05/07 Hi John, Hadn't seen it before. I have to say SHIT!!!!!!!!! or is it PhotoShop. Unreal gotta to be India. Who took the photo? Where was it published? Incredible antlers. How long? Best Wishes Sent: Tuesday, May 15, 2007 3:21 AM Subject: Re: Stag Gday Errol, I know stuff all but i would assume its def Indian, bloody thumper eh, anyway here`s my old mate Hank C with a bigger one that is in Melbourne, we know nothing of this head except to once again assume it is Indian also, enjoy it mate. Oh i have the measurements somewhere on the back of the pic but where it is? At this time I only remember it as a neat 42", another beast too eh with some very important weight in my mind, John G

Hank did quite a bit over Georgey McCormick's hounds also and at times joined in but mostly it was stalking, he had a dingo that he caught as a pup before Fang and used to take it up the bush as a half wild hunting dog. #### me, Fang the #### was as wild as the dingo and one arvo Hank arrived at my joint, we had a cuppa and I suggested that we go down the creek from home with all the dogs to give them all a run. #### me the first thing Fang did was nail a neighbours ewe, he was never broken to stock. Piranha was by Fang out of GG`s elkhound bitch iirc. She walked with him and stayed up high on the ridges and spurs with Hank and as he was pretty hard of hearing he always said that "she is my ears" as she would alert him to Fang having one bailed usually in the river way below. As a bloke to listen to its a real shame that he wasn't videoed for the new generations on YouTube and for ADA presentations. He would have had the halls crowded on those nights with even the experts attending to listen. So much more knowledgeable he was way back then and the internet crowd of youtube fame today could still learn and that is a sambar quality as just when you think you know the deer they show you another trick.

They did when the police chopper saw his tarp from the air and relayed their possy to the ground cops....that was a court day eventually for having a dog in the park...spoilsports.

He had lots of yarns.

Hank C ...legend! You have to take your hat off to Hank, there was no 'modern' gear about in the day and he had no need for this pack or that pack that seems to be a requirement these days. I first met Hank in the early 80`s in the Yarrarabula and it was at a dead deer he had shot off our hounds lol. He used to drop in for a yarn and cuppa on his way home from a hunt and at times with a sambar to show. Among my memories is from when we walked into the head of the Dan when he was in his 70`s for a few nights he was a tough pioneering sambar guru and when he spoke I listened and learned, something a lot could do too. He used to pick a spot on a map and get dropped off "up the top" and would walk through to a pick up point in virgin country after looking at a map with no ####in gps and other aids in those days, just using bush skills. The bare necessities were all he needed and he certainly never carried or had the huge amount of shit that so many carry in their packs today. Hank being Hank would have a chuckle after seeing what the 'modern' hunter needs today. I took a couple of Taswegian mates to Hank`s joint after we had rolled a couple of deer and one of the boys recorded Hank and the conversations on what else..sambar! Unfortunately it was done on VHS and back in 1993 (?) and the tape simply died, lost and gone. Hank had at the time SIXTY TWO ####en rifles....true. The Dan is a place he often hunted and is still a good place to walk into only the best walk into those places when they are in their 70`s. I put his dog Fang over my bitch and produced some very good dogs too....if you knew him well then you know the tale of the seven knotted silk scarves lol, we laughed about that. Below is a pic of my dog Red with his mother, Red`s a son of Hanks famous Fang is on right,pic taken early 80`s. The pic brings back a real memory of that day. Unfortunately Hank was pre digital cams/internet/mobiles etc and so many of his adventures were never recorded. Hank gave me a printed pic of him in the basement of the Melb Museum holding a 42" stag. I posted it on here oh so long ago and atm cant find it. I put it on the net when the internet was born and occasionally it turns up online. I will have another look for it as it really is something to behold. Kenny Pearce, Hank and yours truly at a mates do one night, we stayed away from the sheilas and talked Sambar for the whole night, by #### it was a good sesh too. Just another old pre digital pic that`s ed.

and I ended up with four toenails parting company lol.

The old 7mm mag loved it,the boys had one handed carry`s with their rifles as their own packs didnt have the Moroka fittings.

A report rom 2010 below. Rob Fickling loaned me a pack when he first started making them,as below it served me really well...well enough to order my own for the next years trip. Got into Victoria yesterday and just home this morning from packing the Moroka30 75L pack around the hills for ten days with Shankspony and Lost and Late,two Kiwi boys that would walk the legs off any bastard. May 12 ,flew into Christchurch on the East coast then we drove six hours across the NZ Alps to the West Coast to Fox Glacier and propped there overnight for the trip in the next morning. We set out in pouring rain for our first camp which was a non stop 6.5 hour trip through rough as shit country. The rain didnt stop.We stayed there two days and the second arvo 1.5 clicks upstream from camp and a click off the river I rolled two Chamois bucks one evening for our tucker and then next day we walked another 11 k`s up river which resulted in us three hunters being 28 k`s off the road from where the truck was parked. We traveled through rivers,creeks, bush,####n jungle,avalanche chutes,under glaciers that were dropping ice chunks the size of farm sheds and through boulder fields and it was all the way up hill to where the big bull Tahr were way to ery above us.This was no walk in the park down a gravel road trip this was pain all the way but through the most incredible country I have ever seen. Shankspony had a 300 metre long avalanche of ice and snow roar down the chute he was on and it stopped 200 m`s above him, he had been glassing Chamois across the valley when he heard it coming and as he said "i got the #### out of there quick as " I saw the avalanche trail myself and the 1/2 k plumes of snow and ice dust hanging in the air from another that rumbled down from a glacier above us...geezuz! It was tough on the gear and on the feet, three of my toenails will drop off this or next week and believe me the knees and hips are feeling it too. I have walked through a million frosts but have never climbed through rocks where they are covered in black ice,you cant see it but it was coating every bloody thing you put a boot on,some places were hands on all the way and a slip could have had horrible consequences. Having done an Achilles several years ago i was pretty wary of putting my feet down correctly. Robs Moroka 30 gear? Undoubtedly as good as it gets,tough well and truly made properly and i loved especially the rifle carrier in the middle of the pack as an outstanding extra...climbing through the bush and the rocks meant a hunter had both hands to hang on with and that was a definite bonus. The pack stood up to everything thrown at it and coped with it all,rain,falls,rocks and scrub and with a total weigh up of just over 30 kilos it proved its worth.. with its inherent toughness,comfort and a multitude of pockets for everything i have concluded that its worth recommending to anyone that wants to pack in to anywhere. "haha thats if my recko is worth anything" The Moroka 30 s/bag was too hot for me and i used it as a blanket unzipped, heaps of room and warmth galore,my mate was in a feather bag and calling the temps 'cold' through the night even though he was tightly zipped up,i was warm as! Great bag with a monster amount of room too.

Do you apply oil with the help of a hair dryer or hot air gun RT? Or is the job done with a flapper wheel or worse rubbed by hand?

Dont forget this news report from 2018. Robbers used a tractor connected to a chain to ram their way into a Carlisle River property last Friday while the owners were away and ripped a safe containing at least 15 high-powered guns and more than 20,000 rounds of ammunition from one of the building's walls.5 Feb 2018

https://www.fruugoaustralia.com/guided-field-sharpener-knife-and-tool-guided-field-sharpener-worlds-top-manual-guided-sharpening-tool-system-for-tools-and-knives/p-264510341-582834936?language=en&ac=google&asc=pmax&gad_source=1&gclid=Cj0KCQjw6auyBhDzARIsALIo6v8Q4ob1yuG22hWoAA8A99JQMkO2TeSuUkkTktISX59pscAOmvJzXekaAh_kEALw_wcB

As a recipient of your knife making skills i know that you deservedly warrant the title mate, a very well done F. My pic doesn't do this one justice.

RT below is an excerpt from a tale of a stag I took many years ago. Geez I wished I had one like your handle as even a glimmer would have helped me find it. In bold below. I found my GR on a return trip the next morning. Quote: Knowing dark was imminent I took the obligatory photos although with the aid of a flash unit and then making up my mind to head skin and cape him out there and then under my "battery questionable " head lamp I got stuck into him. Then disaster! Placing my Green River skinning knife on the leafy carpet after an initial cut and prior to rolling the stag I simply couldn't find it after the roll over,frig it! EQ:

Geez mate they look pharking awesome,too good to give to rello`s lol.