New Zealand hunts

[Shooting Stix]

Here is a free range Red Stagg while I was hunting in New Zealand

[Shooting Stix]

Here is a nice goat we took at the last light of the afternoon

[Shooting Stix]

     I can’t seem to download my pictures of my trip so the first day we went on an afternoon hunt for an Arapawa Ram when we spotted a ram on a hillside we got to 250 yards and the ram saw us and ran to 300 where he stopped and I shot putting him down.
     After that I hunted Bull tahr for 5 days with opportunities on big tahr (13 inch) everyday but for some reason nothing worked out until I had an opportunity at a younger bull about 12 inches and I was wore out so I decided to take him. After a perfect heart shot it jumped off the cliff and dropped to his death then a nanny and a young bull jumped from my Side of the cliff and decided to take the nanny for meat which was a great shot about 150 yards.
     While tahr hunting I shot a wallaby and shoot black possums with a 22 at night which they were in the trees and fence posts.we tried for hares but were too quick and kept missing. We ended up taken 2 hogs also with dogs in the same area
      So we headed south to hunt goats which we had 3 big billies together which I shot at the largest Billie chest on but missed to the left. All 3 banded together which we thought the last one was the biggest and shot him 3 times last shot was 400 yards but he was the second biggest.
      The last day we went to hunt free range Red Stagg so we went out on foot and were spotting groups of 20 on the hillside so in an hour 100 red deer total which we had a group in front and didn’t want the staggs to push a group of 30 away so I took the first stagg in a group of 5 males at 150 yards and my hunt was over in an hour the overall trip was awesome and can’t wait to go back.

[starbailey]

Congratulations on what sounds like an amazing trip!

[dilleytech]

Sounds like a pretty game rich inviroment. I would love to make the trip some day and would focus on fallow deer I think. Wonder why more people don’t hunt them?

[hunterofelk]

Nice stag.  Sounds like a great adventure.

[Shooting Stix]

Sounds like a pretty game rich inviroment. I would love to make the trip some day and would focus on fallow deer I think. Wonder why more people don’t hunt them?

I think it’s a budget issue not the desire to hunt them I wanted to shoot one but financially I couldn’t

[dilleytech]

Sounds like a pretty game rich inviroment. I would love to make the trip some day and would focus on fallow deer I think. Wonder why more people don’t hunt them?

I think it’s a budget issue not the desire to hunt them I wanted to shoot one but financially I couldn’t

What’s makes them more expensive?

[Shooting Stix]

Sounds like a pretty game rich inviroment. I would love to make the trip some day and would focus on fallow deer I think. Wonder why more people don’t hunt them?

I think it’s a budget issue not the desire to hunt them I wanted to shoot one but financially I couldn’t

What’s makes them more expensive?

Fallow go for $2000-$3000 and some places more if over 200 CIC

[dilleytech]

Oh nevermind I was assuming the was DIY for some reason. Do to the stag size I guess.

[Shooting Stix]

That’s a free range stagg if you see a stagg over 320 inches it’s a high fence operation this is a good representative stagg for a free range stagg. I shot the first stagg that in range since I had a day to hunt and had so many staggs around us that we had to make a decision before the animals started moving away

[dilleytech]

Yes I assumed it was free range but sounds like you were guided? Hence the cost.

[Shooting Stix]

I book hunts so I have to work with outfitters and yes I have to pay for hunts also

[Shooting Stix]

Here is another try

[OutHouse]

How does the red stag taste?