A few live animal pics from 2014. Bear with me if I muck the links to the photos up, been a while since I was here.

I used to be a member here but had to re register. Had a lot to do with the heli-hunting debate that was raging on here a few years ago. Still loving it out there in the Southern Alps hunting on foot.

Great pics!

Nice pics . Glad you are back posting.

Welcome back mate. Top photo's

Welcome back. Great pictures.

Thanks for coming back.
Great to see what they look like while alive too. Good photography. Let's see more, you've got a great start.
George

Thanks for the 'welcome back' from you all, I'll keep the photos coming if you want them. It's our off season here in NZ, always a challenge how to keep the wolf from the door over the off season, Heading into the alps right now to catch the last of the winter fur on the possums, back soon.

nice pics hope things are good over there

Hi Wazza,

We're all good thanks.

Here's a couple of rare pics, whitetail deer are in very low numbers in NZ, I spend a fair bit of time hunting them in the wilderness each year. Two nice pics here one of a mature doe, the other is the same doe with her yearling and twin fawns, spent a neat half an hour with these guys before they blew my cover.

nice looking animals, still having trouble with that herd from the air

Biggest problem right now is a huge 1080 dump through a lot of that country the DOC is on a 'save the birds' campaign.

Here's a pic of an 18 month old chamois, which was not too far from the deer.

yea read about that, not good even with repelant

Wazza,

There was an article in the local paper last week, where a group of volunteers found 4 dead whitetail within a 4 km2 area (obvioulsy its thick bush and they didn't find every dead deer in that area). If you apply that to the whole area poisoned that the whitetail inhabit, thats quite a big dent in a herd of animals that I estimate to be no more than 500.

I found a few more.

They are nice Billies

nice, stag free range?

Billy goats are free-range most of them in the area we hunt have horns in the late 30's up to 43 inches.

Stag is an estate stag, silver medal, if I saw that boy in the wild I'd be very excited.

Chamois is a young buck, free-range wilderness animal we left him for another day.

Yep saw a few of those up Cardrona in April when we got to have a look at their fenced hunting compound, mate Lars knew a young Danish guy working there.