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Sambar/goat hunt
29 December 2016, 05:39
sheephunterabSambar/goat hunt
I finally got the video up from our sambar/goat hunt with Wildside Hunting Safaris in New Zealand up on Youtube.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XxbLh747X1829 December 2016, 11:13
HomerOzG'Day Fella's,
Sheephunterab, well done and thanks for sharing.
Nice Sambar mate!
Regards
Homer
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29 December 2016, 16:01
Big Wonderful WyomingNice one, Sambar are probably my favorite deer species in the world.
30 December 2016, 10:08
BenKKLoved the footage! Thanks!
31 December 2016, 02:34
NakihunterGreat hunt and trophy.
The info about goats coming with Capt Cooke is not correct. Pigs were brought by Cooke. But goats have gone feral from mohair farming that collapsed in the 80s. They are not wild animals and are a lot more approachable than wild animals like deer, Tahr etc.
Great fun shooting goats.
Well done & thanks for sharing.
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31 December 2016, 11:44
TOP_PREDATORCaptain Cook released Goats on many islands for ship wrecked sailors including New Zealand,Goats were in large numbers long before Goat farming boom of the 1980s.
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31 December 2016, 12:39
gryphon1Jimmy dropped a few off,no doubt for a few Wahine`s but they never documented that part.
http://www.teara.govt.nz/en/in...-animal-pests/page-5http://www.doc.govt.nz/nature/...sts-a-z/feral-goats/
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31 December 2016, 20:44
Steve416Very cool. Thanks.
Steve
01 January 2017, 07:19
muzzaGoats mainly got established in our hill country when the railroads and roads were being constructed. The working mens camps kept herds of goats for meat and milk , and when the camps moved to a new location they just rounded up the goats that were handy , and left the rest to fend for themselves.
Certainly the goat boom and bust of the 1980s introduced some angora blood into the wild stock , but the countryside was crawling with goats way before then.
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01 January 2017, 09:51
eagle27Yes I was living and shooting feral goats in South Westland way back in the 70's and managed to shoot a billy with a set of horns that were measured as number 30 in the New Zealand record book at the time. These sort of heads indicate the goat herds were well established before the angora farming era. The feral goats were quite widespread in the area I lived, some of them occupying the same country as chamois. I recall my father hunting goats in the area before I was a teenager so that dates back to the late 50's
01 January 2017, 19:10
bwanamrmCool hunt. Sambar are definitely on my bucket list!
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02 January 2017, 02:31
Paul TruccoloCongrats on a fine free range Sambar stag, to many here in the Sth Pacific, this is a most coveted trophy and yours is a fine stag, well done.
Gerald deserves the success he enjoys with his clients, he is a hard working hunter and a gentleman to deal with. Great to see him hard at it.
Thanks for the report.