With two of the three “F’s” here (Fat, F**ked and Fifty), and the other one less than twelve months away, I take every opportunity to sneak away for a hunting trip and have a chance to fulfil the only thing left on my bucket list. Typically the time rocks around quickly and being self-employed you […]

Richard O’Driscoll, Phil Gray, Steve Elgar – Author: Richard O’Driscoll It was snowing on Mt Ruapehu as we drove south from our annual ‘summer’ holiday at Turangi. The weather didn’t look flash and I thought for sure that it would be my third cancelled DA fly-in trip. Even though there was a phone message from […]

Last Sunday the 28th October, 2012, saw eight Senior Members of the Bush Branch, N.Z.D.A. meet at the Car Park, South of MT Bruce, to await their mode of transport, Jason Diedrichs’ Hughes 500, which was going to ferry them into the ‘Roaring Stag’ hut for a maintenance working B, and a bit of R […]