Sporting Shooter

The lucky charm

Ben Williams and I had organised a long weekend of backpacking into a nice, remote location he had been eying off for some time but the weather gods weren’t playing the game. We had about 100mm of rain over 24 hours and with the foliage being so thick we decided to go to another spot that had been burnt out a year ago. On the way in, walking along a ridge about four or five kilometres from a road, I looked down to find a horseshoe on the ground.

it in the tree and walked

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