Editor’s Letter – January/February 2023
In our Learn to Hunt courses for veterans and their families that we’ve been running for the last four years, our focus and central themes have always been on the personal benefits of hunting.
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Getting the Hunters Club Call-Up
For my Roar trip this year, I was lucky enough to be asked to join good mate Anto on the West Coast. The catch?
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Hunting on a Budget – Part Two
This series covers ways to get out hunting when you’re on a tight budget. The idea came from the current economic climate and the hardship many are facing.
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Wild Weather Wapiti
Although there are close to 8 billion people on Earth, each person brings to this planet their own unique personality traits, opinions, experiences and set of beliefs.
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Scouting for the Roar
I’ve been asked on a number of occasions, “How do you know where to go hunting in the Roar?” Sometimes, it’s just pure dumb luck ...
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Day Dreaming …
An obsessed hunter is one whose mind is always drifting away thinking about past or future hunts, coming up with new places to explore or old haunts to revisit.
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The Trip that Almost Wasn’t
This year, 2022, has been a mixed bag on the weather front. Just ask the scores of hunters who’ve had trips ruined during the tahr rut this year.
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Annealing Made Perfect
Annealing is often considered a bit of a dark art – not so much a science but some form of witchery that only a select few know about.
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Worth the Wait
I reckon mid-summer is a challenging time to hunt the high country – the days are long and hot, water can be hard to find, and the animals hold tight for long periods.
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A Trip of Firsts
I’ve been claiming to be a newbie hunter for a little while now – approx. six years – and I’ve yet to chase our most abundant deer species … the mighty red.
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Hunting Legends – Recalling the Times of the Earliest Otago Guides – Donald McLennan and Jim Buckley – Part One
We’re going to look way back at a couple of pioneering individuals who, although they were themselves Otago deerstalkers, should be better remembered for helping fulfil others’ dreams of bagging a trophy red deer.
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Ask Yourself: Am I Prepared?
New Zealand is a magnificent and majestic country shaped by the elements. Wild weather erodes the mountains, washing into rivers which carve through the land on their way to shape the coastlines.
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