Just wrapping up a hunt with Wildside Hunting Safaris on the North Island and we are definitely in no hurry to get home. New Zealand never disappoints and even after dumping 8" of snow on us we had a great hunt for red stag, fallow, sambar and sika. Will get some pictures and a full report up in a few days when we get home. We will definitely be back.

Sounds great, glad you got to do it.
Be looking for the pics n report.
Have a safe flight home.
George

G'Day Fella's,

Sheep Hunter, pleased to hear you enjoyed yourself and had some good hunting!
As they say about NZ, "It's a Slice of Heaven" on earth!!!

Regards
Homer

Thanks! It was our second trip to NZ and definitely won't be our last. Off to OZ next month so we are very excited about that.

A few pictures from the trip.

One of two dead stags we found tangled in the vines. A tough way to go.

Sheephunter, looks like you had a great time and some good trophies. The Fellow has an excellent set of antlers.

Nice Sambar

It was only the third sambar stag I'd ever seen in my life...we saw two others the previous day and earlier that day but he sure looked good to me. I can see how hunting them could become very addictive. They are like 500 pound whitetails!

Outstanding! Huge Fallow Deer!

They're all great animals, esp. the sambar. Yes, they occur to us in Australia to be just as hard to get as whitetail, as ours are almost always in thick bush.

G'Day Fella's,

Sheep Hunter Ab, some cracker heads there, well done to you both!

Regards
Homer

Hunt report posted http://forums.accuratereloadin...731068212#6731068212