Hunting in New Zealand

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Hunting in New Zealand   A list of the popular animals that are hunted on both Islands. While only some of the species can be found on the South Island because those animals live in the Mountains of the Southern Alps.    Red Deer Stag: The red deer...

Stag Hunt

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New Zealand Stag Hunt Just in Time There was an hour of light left in the day and we were closing the distance on a group of red stags we had been tailing all day. We were hunting in the Hunters hills range on the South Island of New Zealand. It was steep hill...

New Zealand Tahr Hunt

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  New Zealand Tahr Stalking Bulls in the Southern Alps It was early afternoon when Kerri arrived in Christchurch, New Zealand.  She was coming over from Nome, Alaska for a backcountry hunting excursion. It was a 5 day hunt that we were about to embark on in the...

Red Stag Roar

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Red Stag “Roar”   This time of the year in New Zealand is the beginning of fall, and the stags that roam the hills are coming into the most exciting time of the year, the “rut.” The “rut”, or otherwise known as the “roar” for the red deer starts in...

Take your Kids Outdoors

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Mothers, fathers, grandparents, aunties, uncles, we all have children around us, lets gets them outside and into the great outdoors. Here in New Zealand we are going into winter and we are in the middle of our hunting season. Any opportunity we have to take our kids...