John Duxbury
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Hi Guys, I am in New Zealand, and do a lot of deer stalking in the mountains and national parks over here. It's all back pack hunting, and camping.
I mostly hunt red deer, but there are places with fallow deer about the place also. At this time of year we are hunting for meat, and during the roar in April, everyone who owns a rifle goes out to shoot a trophy.
I would take up pig hunting with a dog but I dont have a dog because the wife has a phobia about dogs.
I have shot red deer with eveyrthing from black powder .44-40's to modern rifles, mostly I use a Sako .243, a Winchester 70 in .30/06 or a BSA Majestic featherweight in .308. I have a 9.3x62 too. It all depends on my mood or interest at the time.
I am not quite sure how hunting is done in the UK, whether you guys actually camp out or shoot during the day and retire in the evening to drink brandy at the manor house
but I am coming over if that's how it is done...
I am getting ready for a two week trip to Fiordland in mid January and will have to carry everything in my pack, like a safari but with no porters.
The name is not my own - John Duxbury was the real name of one of the most famous of our professional hunters and authors - Phillip Holden. He was actually Welsh, and came to NZ in the late fifties and shot deer for the NZ government.
I mostly hunt red deer, but there are places with fallow deer about the place also. At this time of year we are hunting for meat, and during the roar in April, everyone who owns a rifle goes out to shoot a trophy.
I would take up pig hunting with a dog but I dont have a dog because the wife has a phobia about dogs.
I have shot red deer with eveyrthing from black powder .44-40's to modern rifles, mostly I use a Sako .243, a Winchester 70 in .30/06 or a BSA Majestic featherweight in .308. I have a 9.3x62 too. It all depends on my mood or interest at the time.
I am not quite sure how hunting is done in the UK, whether you guys actually camp out or shoot during the day and retire in the evening to drink brandy at the manor house
but I am coming over if that's how it is done...I am getting ready for a two week trip to Fiordland in mid January and will have to carry everything in my pack, like a safari but with no porters.
The name is not my own - John Duxbury was the real name of one of the most famous of our professional hunters and authors - Phillip Holden. He was actually Welsh, and came to NZ in the late fifties and shot deer for the NZ government.
its blowing 42mph here! Hope you are strapped in 
