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Havent posted much here for a while so thought someone might be interested in a couple of hunt pics - specially since there hasnt been many hunt pics lately. Had three days in the NZ Southern Alps last week , free-range , best available type hunt with AR Forum member Trackersnz as guide. All foothunting , none of the dreaded helicopters that everyone here loves so much.  Me with my bull - about ten inches. Not a world beater but a fair representative of the species, and won the hard way.  Here is my hunting mate Kim with his bull , shot high up in a snow chute and retrieved in the dark on hardpacked ice without crampons. A well-deserved animal. ________________________ Old enough to know better | ||
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Nice Muzza Yes good to see some hunting photos  "Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few." Sir Winston Churchill | |||
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Very nice. Some day I hope to hunt down under.  Perception is reality regardless the truth! Stupid people should not breed DRSS NRA Life Member Owner of USOC Adventure TV | |||
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Good one. Glad to see that while some of us had to be doing the other stuff you were up there doing it. | |||
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Great pics Muzza! Regards,Shaun. Kids in the back seat cause accidents,accidents in the back seat cause kids. | |||
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Tough looking country. You put me right on with those cartridges mate. They know their stuff. Thanks | |||
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So Muzza do you really need to be an olympic athlete to hunt tahr ? The hunting imperative was part of every man's soul; some denied or suppressed it, others diverted it into less blatantly violent avenues of expression, wielding clubs on the golf course or racquets on the court, substituting a little white ball for the prey of flesh and blood. Wilbur Smith | |||
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nice work, what sort of distance were you covering in a day? top pics. greg | |||
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Bushchook - you dont need to be an olympic athlete , but you do need to be fitter than the average bear. I thought I was pretty fit for a middle-aged flat-lander , and had been walking and cycling in preparation - but no way was anything like fit enough. You need to be hill-fit , and your knees and ankles need to be used to sidling across real steep country and handling uneven rocky shit. Greghud - we hunted one river valley , so didnt cover a big area in a day . Mostley climbed up the riverbed during the day to gain some altitude, then climed high up the side of the valley and glassed the cliffs above to find tahr.Camped at about 3300 feet asl , then climbed another 2000 feet to where the tahr were.Hunting in the late afternoon / early evening and scrambling down the shingle slides in the dark back to camp. All good fun , but much easier if you are really fit......    ________________________ Old enough to know better | |||
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Gidday Muzza, Don't worry too much mate, I work in the hills everyday and I can tell you that even if you are hill fit it still bloody hurts. You just recover quicker. I sweat buckets so the tittie pack (hydration pack) gets filled at each opportunity as I drink shit loads and puff more. I think Tim finds it about the same as us but is just a bit more adept at hiding it. He's also a bit younger than us too though he hides that well also.  Its definitely worth the effort though and it is up there that I hope to kick the bucket doing it full bore. Great photos too mate. Happy Hunting Hamish | |||
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You are right about it being hard work - and I know one hunting guide that slept very soundly the first night home too... Maybe getting to middle-age means you have to suffer more so you can prove that you can still do it ???? The guy who invented those camelbak hydration kits is champion in my opinion..... ________________________ Old enough to know better | |||
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Thats not the slopes of mount Doom in the back ground is it Muzza?  Nice trophys ------------------------------ A mate of mine has just told me he's shagging his girlfriend and her twin. I said "How can you tell them apart?" He said "Her brother's got a moustache!" | |||
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Well done Muzza. Nothing like doing it the hard way | |||
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Those rocks must be murder on boots?  Regards,Shaun. Kids in the back seat cause accidents,accidents in the back seat cause kids. | |||
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Congratulations. A couple of great trophies taken the true hunting way. | |||
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bloody great effort! I want to go Tahr hunting one day. i dont mind climbing the steep stuff but its going back down that i really hate. reckon i should just stay in the low lands hunting reds and sika? | |||
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Just do it. You will never get up there if you dont make the first step. Going down on the small shingle is easy and fast - its those bigger rocks like in the pics that are hard on your ankles and knees - and the scrape on my Redfield scope is testament to how easy it is to arse-up in the dark... Easy Rollins - those were new boots prior to the trip , and they took a fair beating but held up pretty well . They need a good dressing with preservative and they will be fine. Still have a sore knee from those damn rocks tho... ________________________ Old enough to know better | |||
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nice job !!! it's nice to see someone that gets it done without a chopper. | |||
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Beautiful country! "Let me start off with two words: Made in America" | |||
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Muzza: On foot is the only way to go. A ten inch tahr is better than a 15 inch taken by helicopter. | |||
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Nothing against helicopter hunting...but I do agree with the above. Well done! I need to make that trip some day soon! ****************************************************************** R. Lee Ermey: "The deadliest weapon in the world is a Marine and his rifle." ****************************************************************** We're going to be "gifted" with a health care plan we are forced to purchase and fined if we don't, Which purportedly covers at least ten million more people, without adding a single new doctor, but provides for 16,000 new IRS agents, written by a committee whose chairman says he doesn't understand it, passed by a Congress that didn't read it but exempted themselves from it, and signed by a President, with funding administered by a treasury chief who didn't pay his taxes, for which we'll be taxed for four years before any benefits take effect, by a government which has already bankrupted Social Security and Medicare, all to be overseen by a surgeon general who is obese, and financed by a country that's broke!!!!! 'What the hell could possibly go wrong?' | |||
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Is New Zealand the only place to hunt the Himalayan Tahr? I haven't seen or heard of any hunts offered in their native lands of central Asia. Another animal I would like to pursue someday....I enjoy High mountain pursuits. | |||
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Your're my hero!!!! Congratulations on a hard earned Tahr!!! Regards, D. Nelson | |||
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