NZ Hunter

New Zealand’s premier hunting and outdoor magazine. For everything hunting - adventures, tips, how-tos, and reviews of the latest products. A great read with something for everyone.

NZ Hunter Magazine Ltd

A WORD FROM THE EDITOR

Up And Over • Everyone has their own reasons for hunting, and within that, every hunt has its own purpose. Some weeks the freezers are empty, and in other weeks those trophies are calling

OTAGO'S Alpine Stags • I had planned this weekend hunt a year ago, to a spot that my former work mates had talked about three years previously. Despite much talking, a few plans but no action I decided to go in there myself

PART THREE BUSH PIGLET • This deviates from the usual build article progression with a few tips on general coaching as well as rifle setup. This is about kids mostly but a lot of it applies to any newcomer to the sport.

HOW TO MEASURE LENGTH OF PULL

BIG WESTLAND BUCKS AND A ROUGE BULL • It was early January, and well and truly time to burn off the spoils of the Christmas/New Year period

OPPORTUNITIES COME WITH GROWTH • It's possible that spring time is one of the best times of the year to get your first big game animal with the bow, some of our horned varieties or chase some venison for the freezer

WHAT CAMERA SHOULD I BUY CAMERA ACCESORIES - THE END • The 'What Camera Should I buy' series is drawing to a close. Having covered cameras and the details around them, I want to finish on some of the accessories available

WELCOME TO THE JUNGLE • Recently Johnny Bissell wrote about hunting your feet, hunting locally

PUBLIC LAND ACCESS ORGANISATIONS AND HEALTH AND SAFTEY • Lobbying to maintain and increase public access is a big task, and luckily one we have a lot of support for

101 and not out • A text from Mitchell Ewart in mid-March confirmed that our hunt to Ngamatea Station the following weekend was on

NEW ZEALAND'S IVORY • What is the ultimate pig hunting trophy, a heavy boar or good hooks?

New Bugle opportinities • The Wapiti Foundation has undertaken a review on the Wapiti ballot and party sizes

A ROARSOME EXPERIENCE • It was the beginning of April, the time of year when the Red stags really get fired up, and a clear, cold morning out on the farm

BAKER CREEK TAHR BALLOT BLOCKS • Smack bang in the middle of the Hooker/Landsborough Wilderness Area is the mighty Landsborough River. Midway up-valley Baker Creek joins the Landsborough at about the confluence of Zora creek

NOLANS HUT • In the June/ July edition we paid a visit to Stans Hut in the Whataroa River

GAME ANIMALS OF NEW ZEALAND

WINNER

Hunting In The UK • The layers of rolling hills unfolded into the distance, with grass fields, crops, hedgerows and stands of oak trees forming a scattered patchwork of all shades of green - a quintessential idyllic English scene

Poems From Our Youth

BUSHNELL ENGAGE EDX 10X42 BINOCULARS • In 2018 Bushnell launched a whole new line and classification system for their hunting optics

SPRINGFIELD ARMOURY 2020 WAYPOINT • The name Springfield is synonymous with American military rifles and cartridges.

THE GAC UPDATE

BIG WATER GIANTS • Giant Canada geese over big water must surely be up there as the pinnacle of waterfowl hunting in New Zealand, if not in the world

Hunting & Fishing® NEW ZEALAND

What's New

VENISON CARPACCIO • How about a recipe that doesn't involve cooking? Well, to be fair it does require very little and some prep and equipment