This is the real definition of friendship ❤

Ol tobys a good mate

Awesome place the tararuas, I went past totara flats hut back in 2003-2004 so its been there for a few year's nice stag!

Awesume guys , cheers , shaneo , nelson, 👍🍺

Awesome place. Thanks for sharing.

@thegrundinis4199

8 ай бұрын

Thank you for watching!

Good to see plenty of hand saws too

Another classic, great watch on a winter's day👌 Love the rich history of the place and how good to shoot that stag

@thegrundinis4199

Жыл бұрын

Thanks Glen glad you got a kick out of it! I would love to learn more about the history of the flats and how it was farmed!

Awesome vid!

Yer some buetiful country.

Thanks for the video memories from fifty years ago came storming back

@thegrundinis4199

Жыл бұрын

Hey John awesome stuff 50 yrs!

Beautiful spot that, I was hunting there a lot in the late 90's. Good to see Sayers is just the same.

My father's (Alick Sayer 1905-1983) home away from home. He started heading into Totara Flats from a very young boy, as did his siblings. He never came back empty handed and placed venison, pork and fish on the table. Miss the old codger.

@thegrundinis4199

11 ай бұрын

Wow that is interesting. Was he Dick Sayers son?

Your short films are bloody great. Very real adventures captured really well thanks for sharing

@thegrundinis4199

Жыл бұрын

Thanks Grant we enjoy making them and I am glad you appreciate them!

Awesome video mate That hut is a great hut been there a few times

That 9ptr in the hut was still there in April 2022 a shame someone took it .. love your video especially because I've spent a lot of time in there in the last 10yrs

@thegrundinis4199

Жыл бұрын

Hey mate yeah real shame its gone! I remember Hoppy telling me a story about how a tramp was taking it down when he walked into the hut - well fair to say that tramp probably never set foot back in that hut again ha!

Cheerz boys.. that 2nd stag lookd like the pill when above him hit the grass. . Cool vid massive

These old huts are fantastic I'd love to spend a summer living in the bush staying in these huts there are also some older huts that are off the maps and maintained tracks. I found one in the early 1990s patched up the roof with a sheet we found under the hut cleaned it up abit and stayed there in the weekends for a few months did more repairs sealed the roof and painted it would hunt near buy and pan for gold cut a bit of a track in so I could ride the bike in and walk the last bit not to scare the game . We got a fair bit of gold and would shot a pig or dear and cook up heaps of meat the just pan .but I had to move back to Christchurch and my hunting partner died soon after .went back 30 years later to find it still there worse for were but our repairs in 1991 ment it was still there. I shot a deer and my mate got some pigs I more than paid for the trip wit the gold I paned the cooker was still in good condition but it needs a new roof I'd love to do that and spend 6 months there and get all the gold and show It to my young nephew to come to for his lifetime get away spot Ld

@thegrundinis4199

Жыл бұрын

Wow Awesome story mate! Yes the back country huts are a pretty special place even if they are made by the odd hunter or trapper back in the day.

Great vid mate, shot a stag on the grass flats, on the last hunt I did around Tutuwai hut area, back in 2020. I find the grass flats in these areas, quite productive over the winter months. Seen 7 stags before on the flats up top end of the Tauherenikau valley. Cheers for uploads.

@thegrundinis4199

Жыл бұрын

Good stuff, yes great to see a few deer kicking around! in the 80s it was tough pickings with all the choppers doing venison and live capture.

Another good watch mate. Real down to earth NZ bush hut stuff. Love it. Ol stag icing on the cake with such a trip. Look forward to the next clip.

@thegrundinis4199

Жыл бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it Nick!

Bloody awesome mate - was a great watch as always! Enjoyed the bits of old photos and stories. Nice work finally nailing one on the flats 👍 Cheers!

@thegrundinis4199

Жыл бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it Mad Fisho! It was a fun trip despite the rain.

What a blast from the past for me too !...I used to shoot back there in the.late 70`s. Enjoyed your vlog, thanks!

@thegrundinis4199

Жыл бұрын

Thanks glad you enjoyed it!

Loved it🔥

Young toby bro was happy. He went thro some weather 2. Cheers

@thegrundinis4199

Жыл бұрын

Yep he's a little trooper.

Really enjoyed that! Cheers!

@thegrundinis4199

Жыл бұрын

Cool thanks and your welcome!

Awesome filming Kane, I've a feeling we may have bumped in to each other in the nineties, yes a very special place, don't get in there enough anymore.

@thegrundinis4199

Жыл бұрын

Hey Lance yeah we have mate!

Cool video, congrats to your boy on becoming a father.

@thegrundinis4199

Жыл бұрын

Glad you enjoyed the clip. Thanks for the congrats too!

Great place been there afew times my partner is a sayer

@thegrundinis4199

4 ай бұрын

That’s cool 😎

Well done Kane! Good reward for hunting in that weather mate!

@thegrundinis4199

Жыл бұрын

Thanks Reuben hope the fishing has been good for ya

Epic video as always! Planning on hunting down those ways later this year actually

@thegrundinis4199

Жыл бұрын

Cheers Sam hope you have some good weather when you do.

My uncles built Sayers hut..hey kane i probably bumped into you back in the day..i hunted wiohine gorge a lot and in towards totara flats

@thegrundinis4199

11 ай бұрын

Hey Bernie yeah I think we did!

Good looking spot man, it was wet for days played the patient game got the results,the amount of effort gone into filming is amazing alot of footage to go through good work your mate seems like a hardcase good bastard,id be keen to make some bread in the camp oven one day we have a few starched around the ruahines

@thegrundinis4199

Жыл бұрын

Yeah labour of love that editing lark aye ha! Cant beat a bit of camp bread on a wet day!

Cheers, yas truly soaked it in alright . Don't blame yas for the good dint in that bottle on first night..

@thegrundinis4199

Жыл бұрын

You got that right!

When I was hunting from Sayers in the mid 90's, the new totara flats hut was on the main flats and the old totara flats hut site was were the now new totara flats hut is, ha ha. Totara creek and deep creek were my best spots, and also the faces at the lower end of the gorge. was also worth the slog over into Neil forks for a few days..... they were pretty heavy on dropping 1080 on the main range then, probably still are.

@thegrundinis4199

Жыл бұрын

Hey Harold yep good spot for sure! My first deer was shot in Deep creek some nice punga guts in there aye. Thanks for watching!

excellent video ,73 now brought back many memories of totara flats with the old 303 /308

@thegrundinis4199

Жыл бұрын

Good stuff PT glad you got a kick out of it mate!

I thought I heard you say " Good Whiskey ". 😉

@thegrundinis4199

Жыл бұрын

Ha yeah too good I had to slow down after the first night on it!

@Andy_M986

Жыл бұрын

@@thegrundinis4199 😊

Shoot the hinds not the stags ,especially small 6 pointers , leave them for growing. Years ago I hunted this valley,a lovely valley and we only hunted very early morning as there were a lot of trampers in the area during the day.

@thegrundinis4199

Жыл бұрын

Thanks for your comment I needed some meat and no hinds seen for 3 days. Hunters these days should not be farming them, fine if you want a trophy but I wanted to make venison sausages.

It looked like that shot went high when you went for the second shot.

@thegrundinis4199

Жыл бұрын

Yeah I have re looked at that footage and if it hit it was very high or just over. Buggar!

They used to run the cattle up from woodside and winter the cattle out on the flat that's why the hut was put there so the family could stay there

@thegrundinis4199

Жыл бұрын

Hey thanks for that - interesting!

Great Vid. How long did it take to walk up to Totara Flats Hut?

@thegrundinis4199

Жыл бұрын

Hey William It took us 1.5hrs due to the river being up and our old legs 😀

ah my local go to.. havent watched the whole video yet, didn't find the chainsaw out the back? the sayers family have been up there in the last few weeks doing work on it. yes shame that head has found a new home.. always looked at the cobwebs on it.

@thegrundinis4199

Жыл бұрын

Ha no chain saw but lots of other junk around which could do with a clean up. Yeah sad the head went missing!

Nice shot ! Went there 2 weeks ago and seen 2 female reds in the same spot ! I'm sure I see the remains of your deer also