Editor’s Letter – May/June 2022
My family and I recently moved to rural Canterbury to a quaint little village surrounded by mountains and streams with plenty of hunting and fishing nearby; as you may expect, we’ve never been happier.
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Bucks ‘n’ Gobblers … and those darn parries!
Instagram is a funny app; you can like photos and videos, share them, follow people, stalk people – even win competitions! Lucky for us, my wife, Chelsea, won a competition for a five-day hunt down in Ranfurly at Doctari Hunts over the 2021 fallow rut.
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Ageing Fallow Bucks on the Hoof
With synchronised steps, two fallow bucks strut straight towards the small cabbage-tree clump sheltering me, blinded to my nearness by their unwavering focus on each other.
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Metal in your Meat? A global research study
In 2009, I was cutting the front quarter of an animal apart and found a small lead fragment behind the shoulder blade.
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Ladies Tahr Hunt
As if peppered by a shaker, the snow tussock halfway up the mountain face was speckled with bull tahr.
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A Day of Days
Wynand, another mate Floris and I – were all piled in the cruiser along with the dogs Smokie and Sneak, and we finally hit the road.
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The Full Package – Part 2
We advanced up the valley for several clicks till we found a good glassing spot, stopped, glassed, and then competed with each other to find the dodgiest description of where the tahr were that we’d spotted so the rest of the team could find them too.
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Reloading for Accuracy
This is the first article in a series that will focus on the process and equipment required to make accurate hand loads. Straight up, it won’t cover every aspect of reloading but will instead focus on key aspects that have the biggest influence on accuracy.
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Tier 1 Deer
As a teenager, I was drawn to the ‘meathead’ way of life – lifting tin, running amuck and chasing adventures. Weekends for me were often filled with some sort of fitness challenge designed by my mates and me to push the limits and test our mental fortitude.
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Hunt Rivers, Hunt Light
There’s no need to panic, because when we hunt rivers, we hunt light. We’ve no need for big spreads that fill every landing spot, and we’re not trying to draw in birds from other ponds or other people’s decoy spreads.
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Hunting Legends – Rex Forrester – Delivering the Dream
While Rex Forrester himself was never seriously considered to be a trophy hunter, his lifetime of service to the New Zealand hunting scene included the innumerable times he put a smile on the faces of 100s of hunters who bagged their dream trophies while under his watch.
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Building Your Own ‘Old School’ Duck Decoy Spread
There’s something satisfying about making your own gear to hunt with. It adds an extra dimension to a hunt – a bit like watching a gundog you’ve personally trained do great work.
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