For the wapiti bugle of 1980, Vern, accompanied by his friend Peter Townsend, drew the Wild Natives River block, which drains into the top end of Bligh Sound.
If any Otago valley can boast consistency in giving up some of the finest red deer heads stalkers could wish for, it has to be the Young River – while in South Westland, the location with a parallel reputation would be the Waiatoto River.
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