NZ Hunter

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NZ Hunter

A WORD FROM THE EDITOR

THE GREAT Southern Alps • After a very successful roar and opening weekend of duck shooting season, my morale was high, counting down to our annual tahr rut trip

A LONG TIME COMING • I hadn’t felt the pressure on a shot like this since I was gripping Dad’s old Miroku 308 and a Pureora stag crested the hill in front of a much younger me

EVOLUTION of a BOWHUNTER • Back in 2012, I did my first Sambar hunting trip with my good mate, Simon Bullivant. To cut a long story short, I got taken to school by these deer and the terrain they lived in. I could stalk in reasonable bush and could make good shots within a short to medium range

WHAT CAMERA SHOULD I BUY Part 3 BRIDGE CAMERAS, SUPERZOOMS AND SPOTTING SCOPES • Now that we’ve covered the pocket sized stuff, we’re going to step up to a class of camera referred to as ‘Bridge Cameras’

Antlers Among THE SNOWGRASS • Covid 19 and lockdown had put paid to our plans to hunt stag in our beloved mountains, but my partner and I had used the opportunity to fit in some heavy backpack training and maintain a reasonable level of fitness

How to Kill a Wapiti • A few years back I was sitting beside the one and only Jack McKenzie. He was then in his early eighties and the most experienced Wapiti battler of the day.

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Hunting Feels Good • Of course hunting is good for us - but why?

WINTER CHAMOIS • With the lockdown events and unable to hunt the roar last year behind us, we were very excited to be heading south on another West Coast hunt

THE HERRICK CONNECTION AND THE MYSTERY OF MOOSE LAKE • This sounds like the title of an exciting, drama filled-novel, doesn’t it?

MY NZ HUNTER RIFLE BUILD • This issue wraps up the ‘My NZ Hunter Rifle Build’ series

TROPHY TUSKS AND A CLOSE SHAVE! • The end of March was fast approaching and the first good autumn rains had quenched the parched Northland countryside where I live

New BROADLEAF PART 1 • The broadleaf is widely regarded as one of the most preferred food plants of introduced ungulates

NUTRITION IN THE WILD FATS Part 1 • In this series we will dive into the big wide world of nutrition covering all of the key elements, including how to apply some of this theory into everyday life, and for when we are on the hill

WHO BROKE THE PIG HUNTER? • Well the statistics say that it was actually the pig hunters who broke themselves!

AGE THE BUCK • This is the 34th and final issue in our series of guess the age of the bull.

#FIREARMSAFE SCHOOL FIREARM SAFETY COURSE • John McGlashan College in Dunedin became the first establishment in New Zealand to run the new SCHOOL FIREARM SAFETY COURSE from #firearmsafe (Firearm Safety Training Ltd)

LOWER OLDEROG BIV • Lower Olderog Biv is located in the Arahura catchment in Westland, one of the key pounamu rivers for Maori prior to the arrival of Europeans

POLARIS RANGER 1000 EPS PREMIUM • I was very excited to take the Ranger 1000 Premium for review

TIKKA T3X LITE VEIL WIDELAND • The Tikka T3 (now T3x) is understandably the most popular hunting rifle in New Zealand

SPIKA TERRA PUFFER XONE PANT & GUIDE TOP • We’re seeing more and more from the Australian brand Spika, you might recall their Drover pack system we reviewed back in issue 81

I THINK THERE MIGHT BE THE ODD DUCK HERE • By far the hardest part to writing an article is the start. I mean, how do you actually start to write the story that is in your head?

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