NZ Hunter

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A Word from the Editor

A YEAR LATER • There I was, nestled into the tussock and picking up a few deer in the adjacent creek heads and gullies, warming themselves in the first rays of light. I had my eyes on a young stag on the other side of a basin and I watched as he fed his way across a shaded creek head. He wasn’t quite what I was after though so I continued my search for a more mature animal

SIKA Success • I’d barely finished my sentence when a stag let out a loud single call just a couple of hundred metres down the spur we were on. The hunt was back on!

Richie's Time to Shine Again • With February nearing an end we knew the stags would be getting close to performing their usual disappearing act

Tararua 10 • My goal for the 2018 roar had initially been to simply roar up and shoot my first rutting stag in the bush

Live Animal Gallery

One Out of the Box • Another helicopter ride booked to fly into another area of Canterbury...Pete and I had been giving this area a bit of attention over the last two or three years, with not a great deal of success in securing a good mature stag

Alpine Adventure • It was a hot, muggy West Coast afternoon when Dustin and I got to the chopper pad. Tourists flocked about the place, trying to get flights to look at the glaciers

BERETTA Gallery 500 YEARS. ONE PASSION

GREDOS Ibex • The mountains of Spain hold a special place in my heart. There are several large mountain ranges all with their own characteristics in this beautiful country and I intend to sample each of them along with their game

A Guide to Roaring Stags • The New Zealand bush is a peaceful place to be on a crisp autumn day. Once you've clawed your way up through the jungle country away from the river noise, found the more open spur and your boots are gliding along an easy game trail, the only sounds are the birds and the breeze and your legs brushing the ferns

SHORT RANGE HUNTING In the Bush • My last article was basically about stalking and some of the skills that we seem to be losing as hunters these days

The rifle

Scenic Photography • In the last issue I offered up some tips on landscape photography and composition

AGE THE Bull • This is the 20th in our series of guess the age of the bull.

DIY Jetboat • There are lots of different types of jetboats. Most of the time jetboating NZ rivers is an adventure so we need an ‘adventure’ boat. It just so happens this is also the perfect boat for hunting access

The Paradise Duck • Having profiled a number of native bird species over the last 20-odd issues of NZH, we figured as the game bird season is now approaching, a run on game birds would be appropriate

Two Tales Same Story • Flashback to last century when I escaped my studies with two other young guys and we headed to the Lewis Pass for a weekend hunt

Kaweka Candy Store • Is there a better place to be than sitting high up in the Kawekas with a gentle breeze blowing, the sun on your back and the eternal hope of all hunters as you sweep the country with your binoculars searching for deer?

A bit of BUSH DENTISTRY • Here are some tips on how to age your animal

Who Needs a PLB? • The modern Personal Locater Beacon (PLB) is tiny, reliable and relatively cheap

Mullins Hut • Mullins Hut is one of three community maintained huts in the Toaroha valley in central Westland

The Cardinal Sin • It had been one of those frustrating mornings that the ‘goose gods’ dish out all too often. After all these years of honker hunting you’d think we’d have learned to...