Gary Joll’s Trophy Dream – Part Two
Early April 1959 found Gary sitting in the cockpit of a well-worn Cessna 180, with the legendary pilot Tex Smith, leaving Queenstown’s Airport ...
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The Great Unknown – Mountain Journeys in the Southern Alps
Books on transalpine climbing and tramping the wilderness regions of New Zealand don’t come any better than this publication.
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Gary Joll’s Trophy Dream – Part One
The High Country and the fascination of hunting it – particularly the Mackenzie Country – took a keen hold, and the possibility of finding a trophy ...
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Back to the Big Country
I recall with pleasure the happy days spent hunting the big country beyond Lake Tekapo some 26 years ago.
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Legends – Stalking with the Deans Brothers of Canterbury – Part Three
The winds of change by the 1930s had caught up with the red deer. The government had already carried out shooting forays, but now the elimination of deer was ratcheted up a notch.
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The Life and Times of Jack Luttrell Book Review
The hunting community will be grateful that John Riley decided to collate the life story of Jack Luttrell, retired hunter, farmer and collector.
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Book Review – Down a Country Road II
Sportsman and outdoors writer Tony Orman promised readers that after he’d travelled down the dusty country road in 2018, there’d be more tales to come.
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Legends – Stalking with the Deans Brothers of Canterbury – Part Two
The 1919 season was highlighted over the ranges in the Waimakariri River Valley, when several reasonable stags were bagged by licensed stalkers.
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Legends – Stalking with the Deans Brothers of Canterbury – Part One
The pioneering achievements of William and John Deans, whose parents arrived in New Zealand from their home in Ayrshire Scotland in 1840, are a well-recorded historical slice of our colonial history.
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Legends – Erlton Wilson’s Classic Otago Trophy of 1929 – Part Three
At the end of March 1929, Wilson and Clem Anderson were still persevering with the Otago country around Makarora and camped at Kiwi Flat where they had two blocks to stalk.
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Legends – Erlton Wilson’s Classic Otago Trophy of 1929 – Part Two
For the stag season of 1928, Erlton Wilson was allocated Block 31 and chose to share this expedition with another shooting friend, Henry (aka Clem) Anderson.
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