NZ Hunter

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NZ Hunter

A WORD FROM THE EDITOR

MAIN DIVIDE BEAUTY • It was that time of year again - summer was coming to an end and temperatures were slowly dropping, meaning only one thing, the stags start roaring!

WEST COAST WAR OF ATTRITION • It started, as usual, with the random phone call. ‘Hey mate, how’s it? Good-yup cool-yea, yea I’m good.’ just how most of my yarns start off with my brother in law, Regan

MY NZ HUNTER RIFLE BUILD • With calibre and rifle decided, it’s now time to go through the components of a custom build

Bushnell® Live Animal Gallery • Bushnell are proud to promote this page aimed at celebrating our game animals.

ROAR TIPS FROM THE NZ HUNTER TEAM

KAWEKA SCRUB COUNTRY • There was not a breath of wind, the sky was full of stars and the moon was illuminating the valley

A NEW APPROACH FOR GAME MANAGEMENT PT 2: GENETICS

HIGHCOUNTRY By Horse • With Waitangi weekend approaching Sam had a couple days off that we could tack on to that and make a lightning trip to the South Island

RELOADING: TOOLING

BLACKWATCH RELOADING WORKSHOP • With the unprecedented surge of female involvement and interest in the shooting and hunting community we reached out to get an idea of what ladies want to learn the skills of reloading and what has been holding them back

FEBRUARY CHAMOIS • Bowhunting New Zealand chamois bucks with a bow and arrow in the high country seems like an impossible task

THE SLEEP-IN STAG • With the school holidays coming it looked like a good time to take my daughter and some friends on a tramp and roar hunt on the West Coast

BUCKET LIST STAG 2019 was to be my year • I was turning 62, and I knew statistically there probably aren’t too many women hunting at my age, so if I wanted to get a stag on the wall to show my grandchildren, I had to get cracking!

TROPHY CAPING 101 • Hopefully one day you might be lucky enough to take an animal worthy of sending to the taxidermist, so it is a good idea to learn how to skin for a shoulder mount and care for a cape prior to shooting that once-in-a-lifetime animal

Making It Work • A few issues back I did a series on hunting and conservation. The response from hunters to what I wrote was both humbling and encouraging

AGE THE Bull • This is the 31st in our series of guess the age of the bull.

BRUISED BACK AND BATTERED KNEES • This trip started a little different than our usual roar trip as the “Dream Team” couldn’t all get together due to some work and family commitments

Hunting In Africa From zimbabwe to namibia • 'Robert Mugabe, Zimbabwe's strongman ex-president, dies aged 95'. Headlines like this were flooding through media channels in early September 2019 as Willie and I were finishing our travels in Zimbabwe

LAKE MORGAN HUT • Lake Morgan Hut is located on a section of rolling open tops on the western side of the Southern Alps, east of Lake Brunner (Moana)

IS IT SAFE TO EAT? PART IX THE BEST OF THE REST • In this edition we are going to cover multiple risks that hunters could come across in deer

Photo Gallery

BERGARA'S PREMIER MOUNTAIN 2.0 IN 6.5 CREEDMOOR • The US company Bergara has been making a name for itself with both rifles and barrels in recent years

SPIKA DROVER PACK SYSTEM • Spika is an Australian brand that has only been here a few years

EZE SHARP BLADE SHARPENER • Kentmaster are a meat industry tool manufacturing company who have a branch here in NZ to supply meatworks and butchers

Where There's Coke There's Hope • As...