Success at last

[Germhound 61]

Thanks for the replies, will get some more pics up when the lambing is out the way , trouble is the camera is the last thing I think of when the fun starts.

Thanks for the antihistamine tip Stevemac ( not Steve MacCullom is it , have a mate of that name in UK and call him SteveMac) Is that an ordinary human type antihistamine what dosage a full tab ?

Seen the Albatross SP , to be honest have a passion for watching them, a replacement for the Red Kites in Wales maybe

Pig curry takes some beating , bloody gorgeous even if its just coz I cook it !!!!

[BULL 97]

that was a great read mate ,ive got afew good friends out in nz also some family im hoping to get out there xmas time if not march time for a month ,often thought about the big move , just never had the balls if i do get out for a month i think it will push me one way or the other,ive never heard a bad word said about the place except theres no foxs or badgers lol is this true? .

did hear its 3 grand per dog to get them out there is this true also?

anyhow hope to hear more from you look forward to it mate all the best

Bull

[stevemac 442]

Thanks for the antihistamine tip Stevemac ( not Steve MacCullom is it , have a mate of that name in UK and call him SteveMac) Is that an ordinary human type antihistamine what dosage a full tab ?

 

No Im stevemac from Newcastle Australia. Our stinging nettle is the same with the more wet areas having the more lush nettle we use phenergan or clartine tabs one adult dose atthe first of trouble usually does the trick, not all dogs are affected by it and some suffer much worse than others.

[Germhound 61]

Cheers Steve will get some for the pack ASAP , thats a tip well worth knowing. How are your dogs bred do you use them just for pig hunting ?

Germ (Steve)

[stevemac 442]

Cheers Steve will get some for the pack ASAP , thats a tip well worth knowing. How are your dogs bred do you use them just for pig hunting ?

Germ (Steve)

 

mine are deerhound x greyhound bitch I use one foxes and pigs and her son that I breed from a bully stag I use one the pigs he might get a run on the foxes when he is older. I hunt them with a couple of ridgebacks.

[j-a-s-p-e-r 0]

well done nice to hear from hunters on the other side of the world

[Germhound 61]

:whistling: Edited September 15, 2009 by Germhound

[Germhound 61]

that was a great read mate ,ive got afew good friends out in nz also some family im hoping to get out there xmas time if not march time for a month ,often thought about the big move , just never had the balls if i do get out for a month i think it will push me one way or the other,ive never heard a bad word said about the place except theres no foxs or badgers lol is this true? .

did hear its 3 grand per dog to get them out there is this true also?

anyhow hope to hear more from you look forward to it mate all the best

Bull

 

Bull ,

where in NZ are your family and friends ? I would imagine its not such a big move if you got family and friends out here , we never had any except for 1 or 2 people I'd met on the net but none near Dunedin, its taken a while to get settled in and to get underway with the hunting, I think it just depends how your luck runs when you get here. If I'm honest if you had offered me a ticket back to Wales in the first 5-6 months I would have snatched it off you , I just could'nt settle here.. ,then we bought a house instead of renting and other things fell into place and I'm glad I came, yet I've been on the road traveling with work most of my life - just how it goes . Its a case of there's plenty of opportunity out there/here just have to get of your arse and go get it, not wait for it to happen , that was my lesson learnt out here. It was coming over here for 2 months holiday that made us decide to move here , I thought about Oz but I was to old !!!!!!!!

No foxes out here or badgers , but you other mammals and marsupials that will test you and your dogs. I have been to a few area where the rabbits are just everywhere you look and you think wow we'll get a pile here and you get none even with 5 dogs running just the the lie of the land. When you do get in with a farm its great, I just got permission on a farm to hunt rabbits and hares and to take a pig if it comes my way 8500 acres of it , never had that in U/K the land we had the pigs off is 6500 acres try getting round them in a day and fantastic scenery even if you don't catch anything.

I've just got my firearms licience for a rifle and at the mo I'm doing a safe hunting course, 3 lectures on hunting deer, ecology, safety , map reading how to survive in the bush , a morning on a rifle range shooting various calibre rifles and then a wk'nd in the bush with accomplished hunters hunting fallow deer and if we're lucky enough to shoot one butchery lessons on the Sunday all for $100 - 40 quid !!!!!!!!!!

It cost me around £8000 for my 2 with Zappa being 29" and my white GSD was none to small the cost was up as they go on weight height and length, Peter brought 5 lurchers out with him of various sizes and it cost him around £12000, all depends on how much you do your self, if you buy or make your own crates.

Come on over give it a whirl or you'll just end up thinking what if.

Cheers Germ

[BULL 97]

that was a great read mate ,ive got afew good friends out in nz also some family im hoping to get out there xmas time if not march time for a month ,often thought about the big move , just never had the balls if i do get out for a month i think it will push me one way or the other,ive never heard a bad word said about the place except theres no foxs or badgers lol is this true? .

did hear its 3 grand per dog to get them out there is this true also?

anyhow hope to hear more from you look forward to it mate all the best

Bull

 

Bull ,

where in NZ are your family and friends ? I would imagine its not such a big move if you got family and friends out here , we never had any except for 1 or 2 people I'd met on the net but none near Dunedin, its taken a while to get settled in and to get underway with the hunting, I think it just depends how your luck runs when you get here. If I'm honest if you had offered me a ticket back to Wales in the first 5-6 months I would have snatched it off you , I just could'nt settle here.. ,then we bought a house instead of renting and other things fell into place and I'm glad I came, yet I've been on the road traveling with work most of my life - just how it goes . Its a case of there's plenty of opportunity out there/here just have to get of your arse and go get it, not wait for it to happen , that was my lesson learnt out here. It was coming over here for 2 months holiday that made us decide to move here , I thought about Oz but I was to old !!!!!!!!

No foxes out here or badgers , but you other mammals and marsupials that will test you and your dogs. I have been to a few area where the rabbits are just everywhere you look and you think wow we'll get a pile here and you get none even with 5 dogs running just the the lie of the land. When you do get in with a farm its great, I just got permission on a farm to hunt rabbits and hares and to take a pig if it comes my way 8500 acres of it , never had that in U/K the land we had the pigs off is 6500 acres try getting round them in a day and fantastic scenery even if you don't catch anything.

I've just got my firearms licience for a rifle and at the mo I'm doing a safe hunting course, 3 lectures on hunting deer, ecology, safety , map reading how to survive in the bush , a morning on a rifle range shooting various calibre rifles and then a wk'nd in the bush with accomplished hunters hunting fallow deer and if we're lucky enough to shoot one butchery lessons on the Sunday all for $100 - 40 quid !!!!!!!!!!

It cost me around £8000 for my 2 with Zappa being 29" and my white GSD was none to small the cost was up as they go on weight height and length, Peter brought 5 lurchers out with him of various sizes and it cost him around £12000, all depends on how much you do your self, if you buy or make your own crates.

Come on over give it a whirl or you'll just end up thinking what if.

Cheers Germ

ive got a very good friend in auckland also a aunty and mrs has a set of good friends there too whos kids went school with ares .a cousin in new plymouth and a mate who runs a bank in the south island ,so theres a few of them out there who ive been in touch with that are fairly close and about 4 other sets of people ive worked with but know them in a aquantanice sort of way.im gpoing to try and get out there for a month or so as it sounds great .cant belive its so dear to take dogs out ,how long are they kept in quarantine.? did you find work easy enough?and i heard if you own your own home still in uk you get a massive tax on it also

[Germhound 61]

that was a great read mate ,ive got afew good friends out in nz also some family im hoping to get out there xmas time if not march time for a month ,often thought about the big move , just never had the balls if i do get out for a month i think it will push me one way or the other,ive never heard a bad word said about the place except theres no foxs or badgers lol is this true? .

did hear its 3 grand per dog to get them out there is this true also?

anyhow hope to hear more from you look forward to it mate all the best

Bull

 

Bull ,

where in NZ are your family and friends ? I would imagine its not such a big move if you got family and friends out here , we never had any except for 1 or 2 people I'd met on the net but none near Dunedin, its taken a while to get settled in and to get underway with the hunting, I think it just depends how your luck runs when you get here. If I'm honest if you had offered me a ticket back to Wales in the first 5-6 months I would have snatched it off you , I just could'nt settle here.. ,then we bought a house instead of renting and other things fell into place and I'm glad I came, yet I've been on the road traveling with work most of my life - just how it goes . Its a case of there's plenty of opportunity out there/here just have to get of your arse and go get it, not wait for it to happen , that was my lesson learnt out here. It was coming over here for 2 months holiday that made us decide to move here , I thought about Oz but I was to old !!!!!!!!

No foxes out here or badgers , but you other mammals and marsupials that will test you and your dogs. I have been to a few area where the rabbits are just everywhere you look and you think wow we'll get a pile here and you get none even with 5 dogs running just the the lie of the land. When you do get in with a farm its great, I just got permission on a farm to hunt rabbits and hares and to take a pig if it comes my way 8500 acres of it , never had that in U/K the land we had the pigs off is 6500 acres try getting round them in a day and fantastic scenery even if you don't catch anything.

I've just got my firearms licience for a rifle and at the mo I'm doing a safe hunting course, 3 lectures on hunting deer, ecology, safety , map reading how to survive in the bush , a morning on a rifle range shooting various calibre rifles and then a wk'nd in the bush with accomplished hunters hunting fallow deer and if we're lucky enough to shoot one butchery lessons on the Sunday all for $100 - 40 quid !!!!!!!!!!

It cost me around £8000 for my 2 with Zappa being 29" and my white GSD was none to small the cost was up as they go on weight height and length, Peter brought 5 lurchers out with him of various sizes and it cost him around £12000, all depends on how much you do your self, if you buy or make your own crates.

Come on over give it a whirl or you'll just end up thinking what if.

Cheers Germ

ive got a very good friend in auckland also a aunty and mrs has a set of good friends there too whos kids went school with ares .a cousin in new plymouth and a mate who runs a bank in the south island ,so theres a few of them out there who ive been in touch with that are fairly close and about 4 other sets of people ive worked with but know them in a aquantanice sort of way.im gpoing to try and get out there for a month or so as it sounds great .cant belive its so dear to take dogs out ,how long are they kept in quarantine.? did you find work easy enough?and i heard if you own your own home still in uk you get a massive tax on it also

 

Hi Bull,

my other half has just sold her house in UK and we hav'nt paid any tax on it first I heard of that one. There's no quarantine for the dogs straight off the plane and take them home , but they do have to have a lot of health checks jabs etc which bumps the cost up and you have to pay a small duty/import tax or similar when they land . I got my job over here when still living in UK , look on a site called www.trademe.co.nz an www.seek.co.nz I had the choice of a few and got them from these two sites , what trade are you there is a list of wanted trades etc on the nz government and various agencies that will help you with the immigration process and getting work here .

March is getting into Autumn in NZ warmer in the N Island than South but South is the quieter, as in less populated Island , get a camper and travel its the only way to do it . We originally came for 4 wks holiday but ended up extending our stay for another 4/5 wks we were enjoying it that much.

Germ