Hunting Legends – Vern Wilson’s Wild Places – Part 3
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.
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Hunting Legends – Vern Wilson’s Wild Places – Part 2
Invariably with the passing of time, a lot of keen hunters turn their sights towards fallow deer, as the lure of a paddle-shaped antlered head appeals to many.
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The British Empire Exhibition – Wembley 1924 and the New Zealand Deer Heads
Precisely 100 years ago in 1924, the British Empire Exhibition, a trade show, was held at Wembley in England. It included a display of some of New Zealand’s finest deer-stalking trophies, and they attracted worldwide attention.
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Just a Little Hunting Story – Book Review
There’s more than the title suggests within the pages of this book by Peter and Dawn Carter – the hunting adventures the duo share with the reader are diverse and widespread.
Read MoreHunting Legends – Vern Wilson’s Wild Places – Part 1
Claiming trophies of all New Zealand’s game animals is known as the ‘Grand Slam’ and is the reserve of few hunters. For Vern Wilson, his quest for this honour closed in 1990 when he shot his final animal, a sambar stag.
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Further Off The Beaten Track
It's been four years since readers were introduced to Dave Shaw’s first book, “Off the Beaten Track,” and here we go again – this time venturing even further.
Read MoreBetter Late Than Never
In 1994, I was given a Ruger .308 for my 21st birthday. Over the next few years, I joined my two uncles and older brother on annual deerstalking trips, flying into the Whirinaki Forest.
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Hunting Legends – Archie Kitto – Carrying Out the Very Best – Part Three
Leaving Makarora early in the morning, the journey soaked up about nine hours of travel along the Haast Pass trail.
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Hunting Legends – Archie Kitto – Carrying Out the Very Best – Part Two
No doubt the stalking success the Kitto team enjoyed in the country bordering the Matukituki Valley attracted them back season after season, and in 1922, Archie was again triumphant in his determination to acquire a trophy.
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Hunting Legends – Archie Kitto – Carrying Out the Very Best – Part One
Over a period of 33 years, few stalkers can claim to match the stunning success achieved by Archie Kitto as a result of his hunting in Otago and South Westland.
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Hogs, Dogs and a Rifle
Here’s the latest book from a woman hunter who knows what it’s like to push through the blackberry, gorse and matagouri and settle with a raging wild boar.
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Hunting Legends – The Life and Times of John Faulks Makarora Farmer and Hunter – Part Two
Faulks’ association with the Makarora Valley had made him popular with a number of early stalkers – men like John Forbes, Carlisle Studholme and Major Robert Wilson...
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