New Zealand hunting

[nzhuntinginfo]

Getting in Close

This photo was taken a couple of days ago on public land.

The weather was beautiful morning but a spoiler helicopter was buzzing the area shooting venison under a special licence.

Our alpine chamois are hunted 24/7 so I was lucky to get this close.

The eye of a chamois will catch the slightest movement, even from behind and above so every movement has to be made in slow motion.

 

[norma 308]

Hi my hunting mate is off to your neck of the woods mid April for 3 wks .he flys to Palmerston north and is stopping at a place called marton some 1/2 hr away .do you know the area at all and do you have any hunting contacts at all within say a 100 mile radius .
kind regards
norma

 

[john.d.m]

Marton is bit more than 1/2 hour from Palmy. If your mate finds anything going on in Marton, let the locals know please.
We 1/2 hour north of Palmy, plenty of public land to hunt on, get a D.o.C permit from their office on Tremaine Ave in Palmy.Just be careful, it is NOT EASY hunting, steep, thick bush, hard work, I tend to hunt bush edge on private land (with permission) still not easy, but a lot easier than in the bush. I have to admit, I like to sit and watch nowadays, a lot easier.

 

[nzhuntinginfo]

I was lucky and got away.

Thanks John D.M. Great to get info from someone with local knowledge about Marton (which I don't have). Although I did send a PM.

This is what the chamois in the above picture looked like moments later when her companion fell to the sword.

A moment later she ran like the clappers.

 

[nzhuntinginfo]

Hemtragus jemlahicus

HUNTING is NOT always about TROPHIES.

This is what the best eating in New Zealand looks like at the moment.

If foot hunters don't take animals like this for meat (in New Zealand) helicopters will take them during animal control operations and then they will rot on the ground.

I climbed over 1000m for this kid. It is the finest wild game meat available in New Zealand.

 

[nzhuntinginfo]

Roar In New Zealand

The roar started early for me this year...I was lucky to get onto some good active stags in Mid March.
In new Zealand we have wild deer herds that originate from liberations made 100 years ago using founder stock from various parts of the UK and Scotland.


This photo was taken at 109m with 12 optical zoom.
When I put up the next photo of this stag maybe some of you may recognise which area of the UK the stag's ancestors originated from.

 

[Timbo61]

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[Timbo61]

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Enjoy

 

[@theroedeerguy]

Guessing that the stag in your photo is an Otago Stag, Earl of Dalhousie gifted Red Deer to the Otago province from Invermark Estate back in 1870..........quite an incredible journey for those animals.

Regards

BP

 

[nzhuntinginfo]

Red Stag Antlers New Zealand

Ben, You are quite right that Scottish deer were introduced into New Zealand but that was only into the Province of Otago. (Mine was an unfair question because you don't know where the photo was taken)

This stag is probably a pure blood descendant from liberations that were made around Nelson at the top of the South Island....these animals had been shipped from Thorndon Hall, Essex as a gift from Lord Petre.
I don't know enough about the Thorndon Hall deer to know if this is a representative animal....it could also be a Scottish head from its appearance.

I let out a very low growl. He was 109 m away. He growled back, stood up and after raking the ground started to walk in my direction.
Very exciting.

 

[nzhuntinginfo]

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[nzhuntinginfo]

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The stag put his tongue out several times and then ambled in my direction.
Each step he took reduced the distance from the 109m measured with my Leica 800.
Because the wind was blowing strongly uphill, I knew that I was in with a good chance for a good shot.

 

[nzhuntinginfo]

Public Land Stag

Hunting BLOG
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I watched his tines coming up beside me and then he was suddenly there. The pic was taken without telephoto.
This might be an older stag.
You wonder how these animals survive the relentless legal venison helicopter hunting that occurs on a lot of New Zealand's public land.
(The helicopters are not allowed to hunt during the rut.)

 

[Roaringstag]

Hi, from another kiwi hunter.

NZHuntinginfo, is your name Stuart by any chance?

Great thread, some brilliant photos on here! And some beaut animals taken by keen visitors to the country!

The sheep photos from earlier in this thread, are they the "Woodstock" merino's from the Waimak? If so, I have hunted them

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[nzhuntinginfo]

Hi Roaringstag,. The answer is yes and thanks for the appreciation.

The sheep photos are Woodstock merinos...Its great to hear that you've hunted them.

I've been up the Waimak a bit recently to see if there would be any animals that could be reached by disabled hunters... because access into the area is restricted and some of the sheep aren't too flighty.

 

[jewfish]

Roaring stag and nz hunting great to see you guys on the forum over here, I've read a lot of your threads r/ stag on the fish hunt forum, some great hunting from you guys I was in NZ hunting in 2006 in the lansbourgh hunting thar with mountain man , Jamie Carl, do you know him? He low lives in Perth oz, great guy and hunting Mad
another guy who was on the trip was a guy called nick France another thar mad hunter, iching. to return to Nz soon as I can I need a chamois bad. Keep the photos and story's coming our way
cheers jewfish.

 

[Timbo61]

Last I read of Jamie (last week in fact) he was in Darwin doing a nice little side line in Arm wrestling contest.
Iam ex-pat Surrey boy myself jewfish. Epsom born a bred.

 

[jewfish]

Hi Timbo, Epsom boy aye, not far from me I live in wallington! Yes I've seen the vid of Jamie arm wrestling he,s grown bait since the last time I saw him, how long you been living in Nz , do you get out hunting much?
Cheers jewfish.

 

[nzhuntinginfo]

Chamois at End of the Rut

This buck is mooching around at the end of the rut. (June)

The South Island of New Zealand has just experienced one of the heaviest dumps of snow in decades.
Hunting is unsafe because of avalanche danger...as far as I'm concerned anyway.
But luckily warm winds have just started to melt the snow off the river flats which means that we will possibly be able to get out hunting soon.

 

[nzhuntinginfo]

Winter Hunting Chamois

The record snowfall in Canterbury has melted back over the last month and hunting is now readily available.

Here is a group of nine chamois I found recently.

We chose to take the master buck who was still spending a lot of energy trying to chase off a lesser buck.
It was obvious when we skinned the buck that he had already lost the condition (fat) that he would have been carrying at the start of the rut.