Bushine May 2010 - Napier NZDA · financial before you shoot that monster 8 point jap! ...

MAY 2010

New Zealand Deerstalkers Association Inc Napier Branch PO Box 3059 Onekawa Napier 4142 Ph: (06) 843-6322 www.nzdanapier.org.nz

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Contents

Contents, Calendar ..................................................................... 2

Bruce’s Annual Report ............................................................... 3

Free Giveaways! .......................................................................... 4

In Brief .......................................................................................... 5

Stewart Island Trip 2011 ............................................................ 6

Story: A New Mate .................................................................. 7-8

Napier Branch Competition Entry Form ........................... 9-10

Word Hunter ............................................................................. 11

Food For Thought ..................................................................... 12

Just Joking .................................................................................. 13

Branch Officials & Meeting Times .................................... 14-15

24 May Business Meeting

31 May Annual General Meeting

7 June Junior Meeting

12 June Napier Branch Competition Judging

13 June Hawkes Bay Competition Judging

18 June National Competition Judging

21 June Business Meeting

28 June General Meeting

Calendar

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To contact Bruce Ph. (027) 454 0798, email: [email protected]

HI All,

The most pleasing aspect of the past year is the increase in new members with total members increasing from 97 to 121 in the last financial year. Most of this increase has been in the senior and associate categories with there also being a slight in-crease in junior membership.

On the club hunt front successful hunts were held to Big Hill in January which is al-ways productive due to the restricted access into this area and the spring hunt into the Manson and Tussock areas of the Kawekas which resulted in 9 deer being shot by club members. Another trip to the same huts in the Kawekas is booked for early December this year. Hopefully both hunts will stay on the club calendar into the fu-ture.

Club competition rules have been updated with the main change being the adoption of the Withey scoring system to eliminate the controversy over hybrid heads entered into the sika class. The ten point Withey system will be reviewed by the Napier, Hast-ings and Hawkes Bay clubs and has been adopted by NZDA National and the Taupo Sika show. As outlined last year the photo competition has been changed to reflect the widespread use of digital cameras. These amendments to the rules will be voted on at the next meeting and if passed will be used in this year’s competition.

A submission was made to the HB Regional Council in regard to the use of 1080 on the Comet range area. The rumour has it that deer repellent will be used on the 4000 hectare DOC Comet block but not on the adjoining Makirikiri area.

The club range shoots are always well attended but the Taruarua Cup which has been an annual event for many years between Taihape and Hawkes Bay hunters was ini-tially cancelled due to bad weather . The second attempt to run this event was also cancelled due to lack of entrants from the Taihape area.

The new SARS organization is up and running with Hamish Fraser our club represen-tative on the committee. Our club involvement with SAR has historically always been strong and with the use of emails ,interested club member are continually been kept informed of what is happening .

Finally the club and retiring President would like to thank Mike Marston for his work with the juniors . John Lumsden, Mike Baylis and Richard McKenzie for updating the rules of the Club competitions. Kevin Hall for his involvement in all matters concern-ing 1080 and finally Otto for the suppers on club nights.

Cheers, Bruce K

Bruce's Annual Report

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To contact Simon Ph. (06) 845 1681 or email: [email protected]

We’ve had a few T-Shirts printed up with the Bushline Sika on them. We’re giving them away for free….. The catch? and there always is! - you just need to provide us with a a story we can put to print. So get a story into us, include a few photos if you can, and we’ll hook you up with a T-Shirt.

Free Giveaways!

Napier NZDA AGM

May 31st

Napier Clubrooms

7.30pm

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NAPIER BRANCH AGM ‐ May 31st at the clubrooms, 7.30pm 

 NAPIER BRANCH JUDGING DATE CHANGE ‐  date is now 12th June with the Hawkes Bay judging to be held on the 13th June at the Napier Club ‐ please note  this is a change of venue for the Hawkes Bay competition. All entries to be at the club rooms no later than 9am.   

The change of date is due to a revamp of the Napier, Hastings and Hawkes Bay clubs competition rules. The changes will be outlined at the Napier AGM to be held on the 31st May and voted on. All entries to the National competition must be in Palmerston North by the 18th June.  

CLUB TROPHIES ‐ A reminder that it’s time to return those competition cups received last year.  Dust ‘em off, polish ‘em up and GET THEM IN! 

CLUB SUBS ‐ This years subscriptions are now overdue.  Make sure you’re financial before you shoot that monster 8 point jap! 

LANDSAR NEWSLETTER ‐  The latest Land Search & Rescue newsletter ‘CEO Searchlight’ is available online for viewing or download on their website.                     www.landsar.org.nz 

NAPIER BRANCH  WEBSITE ‐ Check out the club website for competition    results, rules and entry forms. You’ll also find membership forms, upcoming events and a newsletter archive well as the club blog, where you’ll find all sorts of stuff like photos, stories, recipes and news updates.             www.nzdanapier.org.nz 

FLY IN HUNT ‐ The club has booked another fly in trip to the Manson & Tus‐sock huts for early December this year.  Contact Mike Bayliss if you’d like to put your name down.   

STORIES FOR BUSHLINE NEEDED ‐ We need more stories and photos for the newsletter and website, can anyone put pen to paper help us out? Someone out there must have a yarn they’d like to share.   

In Brief

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Stewart Island Club Trip 2011

The club is planning another hunt to Stewart Island in search of those elusive  whitetail.   

Dates and blocks are now confirmed.  The trip will be from April  26th to 5th May 2011.  The blocks that have been booked are the Yankee River & Abrahams Bay blocks.   

If anyone is interest in attending this hunt could they please contact Murray Shearer. 

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I zip up my puttees as Moss snuffles about in the frost covered grass then, balancing on three legs waters a small matagouri bush, humph, well they deserve it. 

With pack on and the doors locked I look out into the moonlit riverbed, the creek a thread of hammered sliver as it murmurs on its way to join with another and on to the sea. 

Calling Moss to heel, well his idea of a heel, we stride through the creek and up the bank eager for another adventure with thoughts of chamois and deer flicking through my ex‐cited brain. 

We reach the familiar bend in the creek where another smaller side creek joins it and turn up this now steeper watercourse and I slip a round into the breach and close to half cock as even this close to the road animals sometimes abound. 

As we zigzag our way upward Moss starts to wind and I scan the way ahead in the now lightening dawn. Turning back I watch as vivid pink and violet splash colour on the snow topped mountains of the main divide with the purple black of the vanishing night drawing back like a velvet curtain revealing a wonder to all who take the time to be there for this amazing display of nature’s beauty. 

Knowing now that game is afoot I am careful to keep to the steep banks as we wind our way towards yet another detour, this on a wide part of the river where we veer off and up an even steeper dry creek bed and still the wee dog is showing that somewhere ahead is a chamois or deer its life clock winding down as this is no photo trip, death walks with me. 

As we top the saddle the sun is starting to warm the cold tussock face and fresh deer prints cover the frosty ground and their black jelly‐bean like droppings still glistening lie in small piles along the game trail and they are warm too! Maybe this will be a shorter trip than I had planned. 

Moss is now on full alert almost lifting his front legs off the ground as his nose takes in the smells coming to us both but only understood fully by him. Careful now, as we come to a small gap in the bush where we would drop down to a narrow gut, cross and sidle out to a bush covered ridge and head down to the next creek crossing, a trail we are destined not to take this morning. 

Moss is going nuts now so game must be really close as we crest the ridge and there in the shade, two deer, one a yearling the other a hind. I hiss at Moss to drop, then with the sights on the hind’s neck squeeze of the shot. She leaps over the golden tussock her head was buried in and crashes down into the gut to lay still, with the only sound loose stones scattering into the gut following her fall, the yearling, unsure of the events before it slowly gathers its senses and trots out of sight. 

Even though I can see the fallen hind I give the now trembling Moss the command “seek”  and he races forward and claims his prize, staring up at me with that now familiar look of “come, look what I’ve got for you” on his face with tail swishing madly. 

A New Mate

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I make my way down to the carcass and with Moss happily lying in front of me, set the camera for the photo. This is the second deer that he has alerted me to and long before I would have been aware without his valuable assistance. 

It is freezing cold in the gut as the anabatic wind moves down slope. It is the first time I have seen deer or any animal here, seen their prints but never their hides. 

I give some of the belly meat to Moss as his reward but he’s not interested, excitement I guess. With all the meat in my pack we climb out and head back the way we had come with a much heavier pack and a large black and white dog whose shares have shot up immeasurably. 

Back at the wagon and it’s only 10.30am and as I pack for the drive up the riverbed I re‐member the thermos of coffee under the seat. 

We sit on the tailgate together, Moss an me and as I sip the hot, black bitter sweet brew  Moss gently slips his head onto my lap, brown eyes staring into mine with a look of “stick with me mate and we’ll make quite a team”. 

As I take another sip of my brew, I think to myself, we already are Mossy, we already are! 

Bill Davis ‐ North Canterbury Branch 

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Entrants Nam

e:

Entrants M

embership No.

HEA

D/H

ORN/TUSK:

Douglas Score

Senior/Associate/Junior

Species

No. Points

Area Shot

Date Shot

PHOTOGRAPH:

Photo Title

Place Taken

Time of Day

Equipment

Entrants Signature

Club Official Signature

NAPIER BRANCH COMPETITIONS EN

TRY FORM

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HEA

D/HORN

/TUSK:

P Ensor CupBest Red head

W J M

cKinley TrophyBest Eel

K Franics CupBest Sika head

Arm

strong Moore Cup

Best trout condition factor

C Frame Cup

Best Sika/Red hybrid headB N

orthe ShieldBest A

rray ‐ 3 sets of pig jaws

Ruahine Challenge CupBest Red H

ead taken on public landK M

udgeway Cup

Best set Pig tusks in jaw

Duley Fam

ily TrophyBest Sika H

ead taken on public landJim

 Fleming M

emorial

Best .22 Rifle Shot ‐ Junior

E Bennett Mem

orial CupBest Trophy by U

21 year oldH Danvers Cup

Best Sika roar

K Mudgew

ay ShieldMost sym

metrical head

M Clarke Cup

Best Red roar

Robertson Porter CupMost unusual head

Branch CertificateBest W

hitetail head

G Moore Cup

Best Goat head

Branch CertificateBest Rusa head

Danvers Christensen Trophy

Best Goat head ‐ Junior

Branch CertificateBest Sam

bar head

Whataroa Cup

Best Chamois head

Branch CertificateBest Fiordland head

Lyver CupBest Tahr head

Branch CertificateBest Ram

 head

Coldstream Cup

Best Fallow head

Senior Hunter of the Year *

S Perfect CupBest trophy taken outside H

BJunior H

unter of the Year *

PHOTO

GRA

PH:

A Duncum

 CupB&

W/C Print D

eer, Tahr, Chamois

Branch CertificateB&

W/C Print ‐ Pig, G

oat, Bull, Wi ld Sheep

Chris Coyle Mem

orialB&

W/C Print G

ame A

nimal ‐ Junior

Clark Rood CupB&

W/C Print ‐ Hum

an Interest

H Lock Shield

Best Colour Print ‐ JuniorBranch Certificate

B&W/C Print ‐ Birds

Presidents CupB&

W/C Print ‐ Scenic &

 Stalking InterestNeta A

ppleby CupB&

W/C Print ‐ Sm

all Mam

mals

Harris G

ilmer Cup

B&W/C Print Flora, Insects, Reptiles

B Keller Cup *Cham

pion Photo (best of all categories)

B Monteith Cup

B&W/C A

ny Subject Matter

 Refer to Competition Rules for specific category detail

* indicates direct entry unnecessary

  NAPIER BRAN

CH CO

MPETITO

N CATERG

ORIES

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Please support the businesses that support your club!

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Possum Stew

1 possum ¼ cup salt

1 lemon, chopped 1 onion, chopped Sprig of rosemary

2 onions, sliced 4 tomatoes, peeled and sliced

1 green pepper, chopped 8 prunes, stoned

Rind of ½ an orange, thinly sliced ½ cup white wine

1 sprig rosemary, chopped salt & pepper

Joint the carcass and cover with cold water to which the salt has been added. Leave overnight.

Then drain off the salted water and rinse the possum. Simmer with the lemon, chopped onions and sprig of rosemary for 1 hour.

Remove the meat from the stock while still hot and discard stock. Brown onions in a little oil, add the possum pieces, tomatoes, green pepper,

prunes, orange rind, wine, rosemary and seasoning and water to cover. Simmer gently until tender, about 1 ½ hours.

Leave overnight and skim off any fat the next morning. Re-heat and serve with rice and crisp salad.

recipe from www.kiwianatown.co.nz

Food For Thought

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A major international company was looking to hire someone for an important position, so they

interviewed dozens of applicants and narrowed their search down to three people from different parts of the world. In an attempt to pick one of

them, they decided to give them all the same question to answer within 24 hours, and the one

with the best answer would get the job.

The question was: A man and a woman are in bed, nude. The woman is lying on her side with her back facing the man, and the man is lying on his side

facing the woman's back .

What is the man's name?

After the 24 hours was up, the three were brought in to give their answers.

The first, from Canada, says

"My answer is, there IS no answer."

The second, from Australia, says "My answer is that there is no way to determine the answer with the information we were given"

The third one, from New Zealand, says

"I'm not exactly sure, but I have it narrowed down to two names.

It's either: Willie Turner or Willie Naylor.."

The Kiwi got the job!

Kiwi Thinking!

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General Meeting night  ‐ last Monday of every month, 7.30pm 

Business Meeting  ‐  second to last Monday of every month 

Junior Meeting night  ‐  first Monday of every month 

Club rooms  ‐  29 Thorn Place, Onekawa, Napier.  Ph:  843 6322 

Branch Officials 09/10

Meeting Nights

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Regular club hunting trips

Organized range shoots

Monthly newsletter

Monthly social meeting

Junior hunters section

$10 million liability insurance

30% Discount on DOC Annual Hut Pass

Member only discounts from various retailers

NZ Hunting & Wildlife magazine

Trophy, photographic, shooting, and literature competitions

Politically active in promoting hunting

Close ties with other clubs and branches.

Affiliation to the NZDA national body and COLFO

Search & Rescue teams

Hunter training program

Many other hunting related activities!

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