Exo mountain gear

[gryphon]

20 minutes ago, 338Snipetac said:

They could never find him when they went looking for him

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.

[gryphon]

23 minutes ago, 338Snipetac said:

Yep I remember I said to him as he was just going to sleep under a tarp on the ground that he can sleep in my tent as there plenty of room. phuck me he went all night yacking away.  You would just fall asleep and he would start again.  hahaha bloody gold.  

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.

[gryphon]

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

 

 

 

 

[gryphon]

Hallelujah, found it.

Here is the man   holding a very heavy antlered beast of 42 inches.

 

 

 

[338Snipetac]

2 hours ago, gryphon said:

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.

Hank said the Dingo was his best dog.  He just had to learn to read its behavior.  He also said the dog would work out when he wanted to head back to the car.  So he had to try and trick the dog into thinking that there not then put a lead on it.  I don't know anybody that could train a Dingo to hunt sambar this days. Man was an absolute legend. 

[338Snipetac]

2 hours ago, gryphon said:

Hallelujah, found it.

Here is the man   holding a very heavy antlered beast of 42 inches.

 

 

 

I've got that photo somewhere as well.  How big is that🤪

[338Snipetac]

2 hours ago, gryphon said:

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 would always say if you see Errol, tell him to give back some of my photos.  🤣 

 

 

 

[338Snipetac]

Just now, 338Snipetac said:

 

 

3 hours ago, gryphon said:

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.

I think he was a bit of a pirate.🤣  He had me in a pine plantation one time.  In his day no licences or permits and you could hunt anywhere for deer.  Then the Karan's started to stop everything.     

[Dave9.3x62]

Holy shit thats big

[338Snipetac]

Well we better get back to the original post and save Hank for a separate one, and I'll hunt around on the old external hard drives for more photos.🤣

Back to Exo.  I have the K2 5500 which if you guys like watching youtube like me, there's group of youtubers called Born and Raised Outdoors.  Based on 2 brothers and there mates that grew up enjoying the outdoors.  They are 100% sponsored by EXO no questions there.  These guys walk around all day with full packs on stalking Elk with bows most of the time.  They asked EXO if they could do a pack for them and it was based off the K2 5500 with a few mods.  The main mod was to have Velcro hold the back section in place and when they need to put the meat between the harness and the pack in the meat section instead of undoing all the straps it was just held in place with super strong Velcro. Also the side pockets a bit bigger and had their youtube logo on it.   Then when they released there new K3 this was added and now is part of there K4 range as well.    I had to get a couple of holes repaired on mine as I used my pack as an anchor to save a mate in NZ from falling to his doom.  The place I used was in Melbourne called Remote repaires https://www.remoterepairs.com.au/  These guys are the best, will fix everything from pack, tents sleeping bags you name it.  well I got a few photos off a mate that just up graded to the K3 from the K2.  So I showed the team and there was no issues at all.  So if you get a K2 second hand and you want the area modified they can do it and I don't think it was much more at the time than a little over $100.  This pack will most likely see me out as it works fine and no real need to up grade.  I've added a few photos of the Moroka pack as well as the EXO pack.  

[AndrewT]

57 minutes ago, 338Snipetac said:

Well we better get back to the original post and save Hank for a separate one, and I'll hunt around on the old external hard drives for more photos.🤣

Back to Exo.  I have the K2 5500 which if you guys like watching youtube like me, there's group of youtubers called Born and Raised Outdoors.  Based on 2 brothers and there mates that grew up enjoying the outdoors.  They are 100% sponsored by EXO no questions there.  These guys walk around all day with full packs on stalking Elk with bows most of the time.  They asked EXO if they could do a pack for them and it was based off the K2 5500 with a few mods.  The main mod was to have Velcro hold the back section in place and when they need to put the meat between the harness and the pack in the meat section instead of undoing all the straps it was just held in place with super strong Velcro. Also the side pockets a bit bigger and had their youtube logo on it.   Then when they released there new K3 this was added and now is part of there K4 range as well.    I had to get a couple of holes repaired on mine as I used my pack as an anchor to save a mate in NZ from falling to his doom.  The place I used was in Melbourne called Remote repaires https://www.remoterepairs.com.au/  These guys are the best, will fix everything from pack, tents sleeping bags you name it.  well I got a few photos off a mate that just up graded to the K3 from the K2.  So I showed the team and there was no issues at all.  So if you get a K2 second hand and you want the area modified they can do it and I don't think it was much more at the time than a little over $100.  This pack will most likely see me out as it works fine and no real need to up grade.  I've added a few photos of the Moroka pack as well as the EXO pack.  

I was enjoying the Hank c detour 👍

[338Snipetac]

1 hour ago, AndrewT said:

I was enjoying the Hank c detour 👍

I'll find some more photos and do a post on him.  🤙

[ben338]

interesting stories guys.