Looking Back
As I looked back over the year’s adventures, I could honestly say 2025 had been nothing short of extraordinary.
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The Next Generation Takes the Lead
With my boys now well established in their teens, these days, I’m more and more becoming the one dragging the chain, as the seasoned bones and muscles find it harder to keep pace with the next generation.
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How I Built Mental Skills Through Life and Hunting
Hunting in New Zealand is high on the degree of difficulty scale when considered globally.
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Hunt of a Lifetime – Not in the Ruahines Now
So, there we were, loading the trailer, cracking yarns, catching up on a few years of life and pointing the ute south toward Osoyoos, heading for a mountain range hard up against the US-Canada border.
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Sika Stag of the Windthrow
It was mid-February and hot as heck. The weekend arrived, and Kahu the kuri (dog) and I set out for another solo adventure together.
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The Trouble with Morning Hunts
These yarns I’m telling here are amongst some of the more memorable ones which, funnily enough, are the ones that typically go wrong and generate a bit of Type 2 fun.
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Wallaby Hunt
When I hear the word ‘wallabies’, I think of Eden Park and Bledisloe Cup matches.
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Grandma’s First Deer!
My mother, Liz, was up from Blenheim visiting us in the North Island for a week last April, and during her visit, I asked her, “Is there anything you’d like to do while you’re staying with us?”
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First Tahr, First Lesson
Ultimately, we decided on the east coast of the Southern Alps, as access is more straightforward and the terrain a little gentler.
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Two Generations in the Doon: A Fiordland Hunting Story
We set out to conquer the Doon River Wapiti block with one thought stuck in the back of our minds: Our grandfather (Bill Sutherland) hunted this same country more than 60 years ago.
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Sika Roar 2025 Into the Battlefield
It was coming up to that all-too-familiar time of year again: April – the month that’s marked on every keen sika hunter’s calendar.
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