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Nz Hunter Magazine
Greg Duley Luke Care Fi Duley Andy Lyver John Bissell, Andrew Buglass Greig Caigou, Corey Carston, Richard Hingston, Glenn Morris, Hunter Morrow, Roy Sloan, Points South, Paul Stenning, Matt Winter Bull tahr – Sean Bayley ■
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A Word From The Editor
The first real bite of winter is hitting the hills as I write this. The roar is well and truly over, and we’re into our planning of the cold months ahead now. We had an awesome sojourn in the Greenstone after Fallow, we’ve done our first sortie after
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Speculation Tahr
We were thinking about going to the West Coast, as we had done a few tahr trips over the past years but mostly on the eastern side. A couple of weeks later we got in touch with Dylan, a mate who lives in Ross on the West Coast and the three of us dec
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Q&A
HEY GREG I have a couple of quick questions regarding the Tikka .270 that has featured in a couple of episodes this season. What length is the barrel? It looks quite short. With the shortened barrel what range do you confidently shoot? Do you find t
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Pear Shaped
Over a few beers we decided to check out some Central Otago country I’d always wanted to look over. Central is great in that most of the weather that wrecks hunting along the main divide is not much more than wind by the time it gets to those great t
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East Coast Trifecta
What on earth is that roaming on the riverbed? After weeks of scouring over Google Maps for potential east coast public land to target, we selected an area where we thought we could achieve the ‘east coast trifecta’ – a bull tahr, a chamois and a Re
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A Greenhorn On Murray River
Stories of Whitetail deer had been drawing my interest since I’d lived in Invercargill and I was eager to experience the hunting that Rakiura had to offer. Booking a hunting block was easy, and the Department of Conservation website had all the inf
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Live Animal Gallery
Nikko Stirling are proud to promote this page aimed at celebrating our game animals. Send in your photos of live game animals to nikkostirling@nzhunter.co.nz and go in the draw to win an exciting product each issue. The prize for this issue is... A
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Urewera Boars
These days we try head down to his haunts around Wairoa at least once a year. It’s always great fun, staying in the old huts or shearers quarters and having a good catch up over a few beers each night. This trip Jack had arranged access to a propert
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Pig Hunting Photography
Plenty of you will have seen the blurry iPhone and point and shoot bail photos that pop up on social media. As pigs are often pulled up in dark gully bottoms and heavy cover, the opportunities for decent photos are rare, and these little cameras simp
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TAHR & CHAMOIS SEASON
Richie had got lucky (as per usual) and drawn a tahr ballot – and a very good one at that – but that was our only concrete plan going into the month of May. The only problem was the tahr ballot clashed with the opening weekend of duck season and as l
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First Trip After Tess
I had a friend join me this time for the first five days. He had recently built a custom 6.5 SAUM and was keen to use it in some open country. The weather did not favour this type of hunting however as it rained off and on, with strong south-west win
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BERETTA Gallery 500 YEARS. ONE PASSION
SEND US YOUR HUNTING PHOTOS FEATURING ONE OF THE BERETTA FAMILY OF PRODUCTS AS LISTED ABOVE AND THE WINNING PHOTO WILL RECEIVE A PAIR OF STEINER OBSERVER 10X42 BINOCULARS RRP $699 Entries should be emailed to editor@nzhunter.co.nz - Subject: Beretta
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WINTER Hunting Tips
Alpine hunting naturally takes you into some pretty serious terrain. It’s one thing to be an experienced hunter, but having an understanding of the objective hazards (hazards that are a natural part of the environment and therefore cannot be eliminat
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Jetboat Driving Tips And Tricks
Like lots of things, jetboat driving is easy to do, but hard to master. The good news is that jetboats are about as simple as it gets for something with a motor. Water blasting out the back of the boat propels you forward; angle the jet stream, and t
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Kerry Crayfish
Biting cold swirling winds meant we would have to hunt low and close to camp if we didn’t want to freeze on the exposed ridges. Emma and I had dropped down low into some gully systems full of old man red beech. There was plenty of sign on the ground
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The Night Sky
By taking that concept of long shutter speeds even further, it is possible to make some stunning images at night in seemingly complete darkness. With intentional use of a few fairly drastic exposure settings and a couple of extra pieces of gear, you'
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Sami A Change Of Pace Part 1 - Indicating Dogs
With business and family commitments requiring a lot of my time these days, I made the decision after more than a little soul searching. A lot of it was about what was good for the dogs. I owed them that much. And just like that, I had no pig dogs.
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The Grey Duck
From what I gather, people have varying thoughts on the extent of that hybridisation, mainly due to the difficulties in identification. A Grey duck is fairly obvious, as is a Mallard but when the two combine to produce offspring, the identification f
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AGE THE Bull
THIS IS ONE OF THE PHOTOS OF LAST ISSUE'S BULL AND THESE ARE THE PANEL'S OPINIONS: Awesome photos! And what a great looking Wapiti bull. This is a fine middle aged bull with all the makings of a good trophy. He just needs time to complete his antler
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Caught
(I was 8 years old - over 50 years ago - so I can’t recall his surname unfortunately). Sam used to fish for trout off the spillway at Tuai power station (part of the Waikaremoana hydroelectric power scheme in the Urewera). I used to run home from s
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Conditioning Your Body For The Chase
Many people put in a fair amount of boot time to get to their hunting grounds. There is typically an early start, followed by a day of chasing quarry and moving over rough terrain to get in to those ‘hot spots’. By the day’s end, if the right opportu
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Hunting & Fishing NEW ZEALAND
The winning photo receives a Hunting & Fishing voucher to the value of $100. Send all your photos to editor@nzhunter.co.nz Note: Photos must be of a suitable size for printing - a minimum file size of 1MB is preferred. ■
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Moby Duck And Other Oddballs
I had just released a reasonably solid Brown trout and was watching him recover and swim off back to the weedy edge of the lake when I had that funny feeling that hunters often get. You know the one, when you think you’re not alone? Looking around,
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Serpentine Hut
I first travelled up there in the roar of 1973 as a teenager accompanied by the current DoC CEO, Lou Sanson. Lou shot a deer in Moose Creek on the way up - very easy back then as the deer would generally appear on a large majority of the slips and ri
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Swarovski's New Baby Z5 The 2.4-12x50 Bt
It is very close to the perfect all round magnification for the wide variety of hunting opportunities across the majority of locations and situations we encounter in this country. Combine this with the superb Swarovski custom PBC turret calibrated in
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Ledlenser Mh11
The 1,000 lumens on boost will reach out to 320m, and still get to 300m on high (750 lumens). Of course, all of that comes at a cost in weight, it’s the heaviest in the range at 179g so it isn’t a torch for expedition trips. But for general use suc
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First Lite Wick Ls Crew - Aerowool 150
It’s available in hoody, quarter zip, T shirt and crew configurations - I’ve been wearing the long sleeve crew that Cam from Points South sent up. It's been through Fiordland, the Main Divide, the Greenstone and the Kawekas. In fact, prior to this
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The Gac Update
There has been much publicity over the changes to the current firearms legislation and the GAC played a significant role is providing advice to government on the use of firearms by those who hunt large game animals. We advocated for the exemption of
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July 2019
To help celebrate Back Country Cuisine’s 21st birthday this year, they’ve decided it’s time to give their meal bags/ pouches a new look. Their new design is clean, simple and designed to retain and enhance their New Zealand heritage. Green from nativ
NZ Hunter2 min readRegional & Ethnic
Tahr Rogan Josh
Tahr should be on every hunter’s menu – it is well and truly on someone else’s radar at the moment. This subject seems to be the talk of the country, so go and get yourself a nanny. Rather than be told what to do – get out there and do your part for

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