The Blog of Rob Eaton » hunting http://www.robeaton.org Tales of an Englishman abroad Mon, 05 Jul 2010 16:21:54 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc That Hurt! http://www.robeaton.org/index.php/2007/07/07/that-hurt/ http://www.robeaton.org/index.php/2007/07/07/that-hurt/#comments Sun, 08 Jul 2007 03:52:41 +0000 Rob http://www.robeaton.org/?p=21 Malc & I headed off to the hills early Saturday Morning.

We headed over the rail bridge near Rakia, when disaster struck. Black Ice and plenty of it. Malc managed to steer us out of a serious head on into the barrier, but hit more ice. This resulted in us gracefully slamming the side of the

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Share and Enjoy: ]]> http://www.robeaton.org/index.php/2007/07/06/shoot/feed/ 0 I’d Better Shoot Along! http://www.robeaton.org/index.php/2007/05/12/id-better-shoot-along/ http://www.robeaton.org/index.php/2007/05/12/id-better-shoot-along/#comments Sat, 12 May 2007 20:22:29 +0000 Rob http://www.robeaton.org/?p=25 Today is a lovely autumnal day in ChCh. It’s chilly out but the warmth of the sun is making a difference.

Last night was another new experience. We headed off to Campbell’s farm and went lamping or rabbit shooting. It was quite a fun way to spend the night, eventually ending at 2am. I think we

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I managed to get a hunt in on the 27th December, with Mal. We managed to catch ourselves a ‘six pointer’ stag. We let the second one go, as there is no point in shooting animals for the sake of it.

If I have done things correctly you should be able

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After camping overnight we got up extremely early and were soon on the track of a stag. An hour or so later we managed to shoot it and then the fun started.

Walking through the scrub and bush we eventually got to the

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