Well my first trip to New Zealand we are on our way
Going for Tahr South Island
Report on return
Larry

hope it goes well for you

Look forward to hunt report

Have fun Larry!

I know that you'll love it.

Thanks
Sitting in LAX waiting for plane.
Leaves in about 2 hours I guess.
May shoot a chamois also
See ya soon
Larry

Have a good time. Don't pull a "Todd," "swallow dive" off the mountains.

Lotsa snow in the Alps at present too....

Good luck Larry, I'm off next week too for tahr, chamois and anything on four legs that moves. Four of us got a tahr block for two consecutive weeks on the South Westland side deep in the Southern Alps starting 25th so will work in with the weather.
Taking an Alaskan in with us this year so hopefully he can pull down a few trophies. Going to be bloody cold but got the gears for this and the 7mm-08 all loaded up ready to strike.

should a couple of reports then

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Originally posted by wazza56:
should a couple of reports then

Provided I got some fingers left after frostbite

Just a brief report
What an amazing place more game than you could ever want.
Seen about 100 tahr already my partner shot one about a 12" one already
Can't send pictures from the iPad
My turn tommorow
Larry

Good luck on your hunt, dear friend. Stay safe and bring home the big one.

Sounds great! Who are you hunting with mate?

Hunting with Adrian and Brent Moody Mountain Hunter of New Zealand.
Their main places the north island we are hunting on a private ranch in the south island
We are about 60 kilometers west of Geraldine.
We are right on the Rangitata River.
Great place lots of game seen shooter bulls by the bunch everyday.
Took a nanny for a full body mount with the bull full body.
Larry

Sounds like a great trip with lots of game.
How long will you be in country over there?
Going to do anything else besides tahr hunting?
From what I"ve seen NZ is a beautiful country that would need some looking over as you might not get a chance to go back.
Wish you the best.

Shot a bull and a nanny this trip
My buddy shot a bull and a fallow deer.
I will be setting up hunts for this great area
Lots of Bulls and you don't need the major expense of helicopters.
I am 66 and walked up the mountains here seen Tahr I could have shot from the 4 wheeler.
Just way under hunted only a few hunters a year.
Larry
Next year I will hunt another tahr and the Sandbar deer and maybe a few others.

So glad you have had a good hunt Larry and of course always great to spot good numbers of animals.
No chamois? While I like tahr I just can't go past chamois as the premium animal here.
I think they are more difficult to shoot than tahr especially if running.

Hope you do return again and can get onto more good animals. Did you try eating tahr? Better than best beef in my IMO (not old bull though).

We've got some poor weather at the moment here on the Westcoast and Northern South Island where I live but hoping by Friday next it will have all blown away and we can get into our tahr block on Saturday, the trigger finger is getting real itchy.

Hope to see some photos of your hunt soon.

Chamois on the next trip
This was an investigative trip to help book hunts.
Will do others next year.
Great place
Looks like we where going to get some bad weather but just a light rain today
The first couple days just great .
Larry