The 2006 has been a big one for me. Thought I'd share a few more photos taken over the past few weeks. Enjoy



This lady shot a very nice Feral Goat, it scores in the top 20 of SCI trophy records.


Here's a nice Silver Medal Red Stag

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Here's that Silver Medal Red Stag.




A cracking good Tahr at 13 1/2 inchs and a beautiful mane. Shot in June.

The snow came in June and July, but didn't slow us down any.
Here a very nice Red Stag. Gold Medal SCI 370





A very nice Tahr, one of the bigger one's we took this season. 14 inch horns and no. 12 in the SCI trophy record book.
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A few trophies lying on the front lawn.
The Elk went SCI 400
Two Gold Medal Red Stags, One Silver Medal Red Stag and one "Management" cull Red Stag.
On the right a small fallow Buck.

We also hunted Sika on several occasions. You have to go to the North Island for these.
These two Sika were exceptional.
One shot free range and the other shot on a Game Ranch operation. I'll let you guess which is which.

This young girl is 10 years old and shot this Red stag using a 300 WSM Bansner.
Shot it at 147 yards and hit it dead on the dot. Couldn't have done better myself.

Bird Hunting was a blast. Always a good way to fill in time during bad weather or between Big game hunts.
We hunted Ducks, Canada Geese (Greaters) and Black Swan, as well as Pheasants and Quail.

Try that again. Still coming to grips with the photo posting.

A couple more Chamois.
10 inch and 9 1/4

We shot a couple of White animals.
A White Fallow Buck and a White Red Stag.

Here's afew more great Red Stags:



Mother and Daughter. Mum shot the stag. A nice Silver Medal Red Stag. Son (18) Got one too. A very good Gold Medal Stag SCI 386.

One of the bigger stags taken was this nice Gold Medal SCI 450 Red Stag.




Another impressive looking animal is this one SCI 400 It had nice big drop tines.

We shot a lot of wapiti this season. The biggest scored SCI 490 and is a new No.1 for the SCI record book. This one scored SCI 377.
A Non-typical head and a most memorable hunt in the snow.




So now it's all over I'm looking forward to a bit of hunting for myself. Off to Alaska next week to hunt Black Bears, Grizzly and Caribou. Can't wait and will hopefully have a few stories to post in a months time.
Hope you all enjoy the photos. Apologies if the formatting is not 100% and the file sizes are large.
Regards to all.

Some huge animals there,were the Sika taken on Ngamatea???
Thanks for posting them.

Good luck in Alaska,take lots of photos.
Do you plan to video tape your hunt in Alaska??

G'day TP.
As you can see I've finally worked out the photo posting thing. I'll take my video to AK, I did last year as well and got some good footage of two Bull Moose having a scrap, this was shortly after I'd been treed by one of them. I was stuck in the tree for over an hour.
Biggest problem is that the video packed up in the wet conditions (SE Alaska) I'd welcome any advice on how to overcome the moisture problem.
Just got one of those fancy DVD video cameras, and have been practising on the guided hunts.

BTW If you're down this way, come and have a crack at the Canada Geese, I've got quite a good set-up now (Boat, Blinds, Decoys, Calls etc), and there's plenty about. You can hunt them all year round.

The Sika came from the Hawkes Bay side of the Kawekas. Near Puketitiri.

I got a Sony DVD back in March,very happy with it.

Few tips about them,battries don't last long and always,always take a spare disc with when hunting.
I ran out of room on a disc in on my Buffalo hunt and missed a cow being shot
You can buy water/shock proof cases,that you put video camera in and use the camera when its in this case.

I'm very keen on some Geese,ill stay ill touch.

Also the opportunity to "Clean-up" / Cull some end of season animals. After 1st October.

You got some nice animals Tracker...makes me want to go back to NZ.

some nice animals, its a shame there not all wild.

Yeah I wish they were all wild too, but just isn't going to happen with current game management regimes here in NZ. Guess this shows potential of what could be.

Gidday Tim,
Looks like you had a great season.

In photo 2 is that the Waitaki valley in the background or the Haka.

I need to get back down your way to get into the wallabies so I can get some dog tucker.

You don't have any places that need culling jobs done on them or goats do you???

Happy Hunting

Hamish

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Originally posted by TrackersNZ:
Yeah I wish they were all wild too, but just isn't going to happen with current game management regimes here in NZ. Guess this shows potential of what could be.

good point.

it is a shame they aren't wild deer what sort of money are these guys paying to pull the triger on these animals ?

what DS were the jap's ?

a mate of mine shot one of the biggest wild sika stsgs i've seen in years in the roar, in a similar area to where you were hunting

Nice animals, where did you get the seed stock from?

I am surprised by how many non-typical red stag trophies you harvest, is this common in New Zealand or do you manage for these trophies?

Also, how do you calculate the annual offtake on the ranch? Is it 50/50?
Cheers,

Gabriel

in most cases Boghossian the stags are breed on velvet frams for bulk size then sold to the game pack for people to pay big money to shoot

this is a few pic's of some velvet stags on a propety just north of Taupo that are heading for game parks.
some of the bigger ones off this place get to 30+ points
ugly heads if you ask me i'd rather have a nice even 12-16point head any day but each to there own

Congratulations Tracker! Awesome stags and awesome scenery.

Nice photos and good on you for making a buck, but its just not hunting is it

For Alaska make sure you go the hard, sealed case route.

Take 3-4 times the batteries that you think you would ever need.

Same advice as TOP PREDATOR on the discs as well. Keep an eye on the light in that part of Alaska also.

With a low, grey, THICK overcast be sure to choose between sharp focus/appatrent grain size versus getting all the action in the can.

Keep an eye on the purge valve on your case.

LD

PS I've schlepped Pelican cases all over the world over the years. Hopefully they make a camera case. If so, it will get the job done.

LD

Hey Tim, great pics!

I saw the stoney point shooting walking/shooting sticks in some of the shots...how have they held up? I haven't ever hunted with a set for very long...wondering how long they might last.

Travis

Excellent photos thanks for posting its nice to see what are the pro from the other side of the world doing ,congratulations.DrJuan Pablo Pozzi