Of New Zealand Mountains & Alpine medows

[JEFF B]

oh yeah al you got to look out for that shale one wrong move bro and its all over. not a good look. but iam glad you had a real good time ye all come back now ye hear.  

[Al Kidner]

I'll be back that's for sure Jeff, just not sure where to hunt or what animals...lol.

Your dead right whip and ray, when getting up that high I was thinking...
"Now if i do a wee tumble here I'm more worried about my bow and camera!... I can be patched up"

Strange way of thinking but hell, it's my skin.

Anyway getting back to the hunt. This is what we were after lads.

 

True, free range wild red stags. Note to any hunter going to NZ to hunt the Reds: if the head gear is any bigger than this it has,or is, been in a pen... Another FACT. The ones you see with trees growing out of there skulls are fed up on suped up feed and nuts etc, to get the massive growth.

Sadly it is creeping into hunting in NZ and here in Australia as well, but there is still plenty of wild wilderness to hunt and operations that cater for this. Just tell 'em you want no high fences.

The two fellas that run the area I hunted can not stand the way hunting is going around the world, gold medal this and 100% that. And it suited me to the ground.

[Missouri Sherpa]

I wish I was in NZ hunting right now.  It's on my short list of places to hunt before I get too old to go anymore.  Looks like a tremendously good time.

[9 Mile Archer]

Alan
Great images, thanks for taking the time to share.

[Guru]

Awesome!!  Can't wait for the rest...

[JEFF B]

thanks chris      

[mmgrode]

Thanks for sharing Alan. Simply beautiful!

[Jack Shanks]

Alan, please continue your story. It's always nice to hear about someone's hunting trip and see places that others would love to go to.

[arraflipper]

Thanks for sharing the place looks to great to describe.  The pictures are breath taking, I had heard the fly fishing is great there also.  What a get away, maybe someday I can leave a few tracks there myself!!!  Showing us all the goodies you have bought makes it even that much better.  Way to go!!!!!!!!!!!

[Terry Green]

Thanks for sharing Alan.......waitin for more!!!

[JC]

Great stuff there Alan! I hope to hunt NZ someday...but certainly won't go without my flyrod too! What do ya say Tippit, should we start planning?  

[Guru]

Alan, Please continue bud    

We appreciate your time and effort, thanx

[vermonster13]

More Alan, we need more. I'm buried in snow again and threads like this are what I'm living on. So please!!!!!!

[Talondale]

Lovely country.  Nice job on the pics.  Keep the story coming. Enjoying it.

[Terry Green]

This is certainly worth another look.......

 

[mmgrode]

We'd love to see and hear more Alan! Cheers, Matt

[Lewis Brookshire III]

I think ot should be tradgang law if you cant finish a story in the first 3 days of the post!!!! LOL

Hurry up for goodness sake we are on pins and needles.

[lone hunter]

Bud there's a bunch of people here who care about what you have to say and want to share your experience.

[Ray Hammond]

that's classic elk habitat, there, if I've ever seen it.

wonder what happened to those trees there? Fire?

[Whip]

Boy, I'd give anything even to be the dog in that picture!