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A WORD FROM THE EDITOR

Q&A

Hard Work Paid Off • This trip had been a long time in the planning and had failed on two previous occasions due to weather and injuries

LIGHTNESS IN THE DARK • It all started when I got the email from the Fiordland Wapiti Foundation, congratulating my mate, Brad, and I on drawing the Dark River Wapiti block for period two

DEER VS MOA • My knowledge of moa and their history in New Zealand didn’t go much beyond what I’d learned as an 8 year old at school

THE HOPKINS • 'The story began a beautiful blonde in a wood fired hot tub on a cold rainy day' ... and now that I have your attention, I’ll back up a bit!

SOMEWHERE NEW • I’m a sucker for hunting in new areas; I know it might not be the most effective way to secure meat or find a trophy but there’s just something about venturing into an area when you’ve spent hours poring over the topo map.

PRIVILEGE AND SACRIFICE • As the roar was a bit of a fizzer for us, we devised a plan to head down to our favourite DoC block for a 4-day hunt, in the hope of getting my first stag

WHAT CAMERA SHOULD I BUY EDITING PHOTOS Part 6 • For this issue we’ll deviate a little from specifically ‘what camera should I buy’ to delve in the dark art of photo editing

BORN IN THE USA PART 2 • I had been sitting in a Kamahi tree, about 6m up, for an hour and a half. Not long for treestand hunting standards

HUNT LIGHTER GET READY PART THREE • Next time you go for a weekend hunt in the mountains consider packing a 3kg bag of sugar!

TAHR BALLOT BLOCKS THE JACOBS • Squeezed under the rugged and dramatic Bannock Brae Range, the Makawhio or Jacobs as it’s known is home to some of South Westland's finest scrub. And is one of the more Northern ballot blocks in the Hooker/Adams wilderness area River travel can be painfully slow with the bush being strewn with boulders and problems to skirt around, and a network of tahr trails that just always seem to end up in a jungle of vines. But if you have the patience for hunting tahr in the scrub and side creeks, you won't be disappointed.

SCAMPER TORRENT HUT • Scamper Torrent hut is another of the huts we’ve profiled on the Remote Huts website. It is located in the Waitaha Valley in Westland in the upper Scamper Torrent Basin This is a picturesque and remote setting that can be accessed in a day from the Waitaha roadend by a reasonably fit party. Scamper Torrent tumbles from the basin in a series of waterfalls down into Whirling Water, one of the Waitaha's larger tributaries.

SOMETHING ABOUT ELK • This yarn really begins when I was a ten-year-old kid, reading too many hunting stories of early Wapiti hunters in Fiordland. Tales of 50-inch racks and of Wapiti screaming their heads off sowed the seed in my head.

THE GAC UPDATE • NZ Hunter readers and regular followers of the Game Animal Council will be somewhat familiar with the increasing demand for New Zealand hunters to take a more active role in herd management

BENELLI LUPO IN 308 • Benelli’s new entry into the bolt action rifle market – the Lupo in 308

HUNTERS ELEMENT ATLAS JACKET • Back in Issue 63, we reviewed what was then the new hunting coat from Hunters Element – the Odyssey

SPECIFICATIONS

GETTING THE BEST OUT OF YOUR LAYOUT BLIND PART TWO • If you read the first part of this article about layout blinds in the last issue, you would have realised how much time I spend hunting with them and how much I enjoy doing so

WAGGING SCHOOL FOR THE BUCK AND THE STAG • It was a Wednesday morning when my mate Blake and I...