Maximising Your Meat Usage
Most hunters will understand that it’s hard to put into words that feeling you get when you shoot your first deer.
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Homemade Sausage Recipe
There are a multitude of recipes out there for sausages. If you’re attempting to make them for the first time, I’d suggest you buy a flavour mix. These mixes have everything you need in them already – you only need to add meat, fat, water and cases.
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Alpine Hunting! Part Two – Animal Behaviour
Alpine animals have a certain beauty and grace at all times, but the extreme conditions of wintry weather in combination with the heights and sheerness of the terrain they inhabit underscore this magnificence and emphasise how perfectly they’ve evolved to fill a very difficult and specialised niche.
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Hunting Dogs – Mini’s Training Journey – Part Three
In this article, we look at both components and how to enhance, encourage and assess your dog’s potential to train successfully.
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Alpine Hunting! Part One – Building Knowledge
This two-part how-to series on alpine hunting will focus on giving you practical and relevant information on how to hunt above the bushline safely and successfully throughout the year.
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Hunting Dogs – Leveraging Your Dog’s Needs – Part Two
In the first article in this series, I spoke about the ‘mutually beneficial relationship’ that existed between early man and wolf.
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Hunting Dogs – A Training Journey – Part One
In this three-part series, I’ll share my personal journey and experience with hunting and working dogs, the training skills that I’ve been gifted and the lessons I’ve learnt along the way.
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Waxing Your Quacks – Duck Plucking with Wax for Beginners by a Beginner
Following a catch-up phone call during one of the country’s many lockdowns, Phil from NZRod&Rifle managed to talk me into writing an article on wax-based feather plucking!
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Bush Encyclopaedia – What to Look for this Roar
What defines success when hunting? Of course, there are a variety of metrics that determine success for each individual hunter.
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Packing Out Game Meat
Carrying out whole animals is beneficial because not only does it bring the most meat out but also, keeping the skin on and bones in protects the meat on the tote and during the aging process.
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Hunting on a Budget – Part Three
After your initial set-up costs of rifle and gear, the next obvious question is how you get to where you’re going for less.
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Hunting on a Budget – Part Two
This series covers ways to get out hunting when you’re on a tight budget. The idea came from the current economic climate and the hardship many are facing.
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