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  1. Born Hunter
    Oooh one final pic from the east coast, probably my favourite.
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    Cheers mate. So you should, I was looking forward to hearing about it! Nah posting on here is a personal thing, if a few hadn't of asked I wouldn't have bothered. Was in two minds anyway. I'll post a bit more tomorrow.
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    I'd love to! I could spend months either there or Montana hunting Rocky Mountain Bighorn, Dall, Rocky Mountain Elk, Mountain Goat, Caribou and legit spot and stalk Bear. But america is SO expensive because the demand in the hunting market is massive. I mean that's great because hunting dollars fuel their conservation efforts and they have probably the best conservation model in the world. But it doesn't leave much opportunity for a lad from a working class background like myself. I mean I'm doing alright considering but I'm not exactly wealthy. LOL I feel an adventure over there without a
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    So that was my NZ Tahr hunt. We faced a bit of adversity, had to change plans, it was over in a few days, we just beat the rain and we had fantastic luck. But then Kurt knows his shit and those people tend to 'be lucky'. For those wondering, we didn't harvest any meat. I think it's important to be open about that and explain why. You might not like it, you might think I'm a filthy trophy hunter and that's fine. Be respectful and we'll have a discussion about it. Basically Kurt's opinion was that mature bull Tahr meat is not worth the effort, it's a hunt for the skins and horns but first a
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    Once back at camp, we refuelled and packed our bags. This time our bags were absolutely brimmed! 100lt packs which weighed so much we needed to help each other to our feet. I asked Kurt how much he reckoned our packs weighed and he was around the same figure I had in my head. They were f***ing heavy! The pack didn't really fit me, it would slop from one side to the other and throw me off balance, if I slid on anything it was hard to stop, I was fatigued, the terrain was f***ing deadly and I just had to concentrate every step. Tahr hunting like this is hard work, people fall to their deaths hun
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    We met back where we parted at the first recovered bull and having both found what we were looking for we went to process Kurt's animal first. Finally we finished with my second bull. That cape around my neck was surprisingly heavy. Kurt had a pack to haul back to camp and I had that cape around my shoulders and the rifle. The horns nearly blind you and the awkward loading on the shoulders makes it hard to breath and negotiate alpine terrain, lol. But this was the easy part...
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    Before we began to cape that bull we both set about looking for the other two bulls. Kurt went up and into the ravine while I went down and across to the scree where my first bull from the previous evening should be laying. Found him, BIG dark skinned animal. Both horns just topping 12".
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    Sometime in the morning before the sunrise we were up for some more freeze dried cuisine in preparation to find our kills and maybe drop another. I forgot to mention that just after I had shot mine another mob right over on our right was stirred which had a reasonable bull for Kurt. With his second shot he appeared to drop it into a ravine, so we had two to recover. As expected we found the mobs again with a couple of bulls as possibles. One bull in particular quite close to where Kurt had shot his the night before had a lovely bleached mane. We moved into a shooting position and I
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    Sorted.... I think. Right... This is pretty much where the evening played out. We watched two small mobs with a bull or two party to each slowly descend, hoping that they would close distance for us. As the sun began to drop we moved as far forward as was practical with now one mob in particular at something like over 500m (I guessed no more than 350 ). That mob had a single mature Bull, real dark skin, hard to tell horn length, not that that was particularly important to me. We waited and watched and our chat became a bit more serious... He was at 450m now and I wa
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    And looking back across it was f***ing beautiful! We set up camp, got some snap on the go and immediately started glassing. The Tahr were due to descend for their evening feed any time. I found it really hard to get my eye in to begin with, Kurt was pointing out animals that sounded obvious but f****d if I could see them. Also you could hear the rocks falling and scree running from the Tahr starting to move, it was quite a cool sound in such a massive sheltered valley. We seemed to find most of the action in a particular one of these two high valleys so set about on a eve
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    I didn't quite know how far we had to go and it was probably for the best, I think we covered about seven or eight miles zig zagging up the hill side with 100lt rucksacks and rifle, first through bush, then through thigh high tussocky spikey shit, then through rocky bouldery alpiney shit... ....until finally we reached the spot he had in mind, just about high enough to find patches of snow for water but more importantly it was positioned between two large amphitheatre-like high valleys either side that fed into the main valley that we had just ascended.
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    So as a few of you know, I've recently had a few weeks hunting around New Zealand's South Island. I did all sorts so not really sure where to put this thread but the main hunt was Himalayan Tahr in the Southern Alps so I guess this 'Big Game' section is as good a place as any. In addition to the Tahr, I hunted pigs with dogs, shot duck on the opening day from a mai mai, fished for sea run trout, lamped various grass munching pests (possum, rabbit, hare) and generally experienced rural and wild New Zealand. Firstly, I have to thank @Tyla for putting me in touch with Kurt, a local farmer/hu
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    Cheers mate. Very well. When I get the energy I'll stick up a big post on it, a few folks have asked.
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    Two years ago today the Manchester Arena bombing.
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    Pic I’ve just found. Ya can just make out the huntaway stood back driving the sheep across the road with the collie type thing flanking them in the foreground.
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    We all hunt for different reasons. Personally I'd rather leave the thermal at home...
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    Simple clip point? Bowie-esque. I like them with a false edge on the tip. No idea if it serves any purpose though, lol. I like the un-ground look too with forge marks still visible.
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    I’ve absolutely zero experience with this breed, which goes for most of us here, lol. From what I saw recently in NZ they worked a mix of huntaways and collies and it wasn’t a country with much sentimentality towards working dogs! I doubt very many of this breed get ute space if they aren’t useful. Strike me as being a very robust animal for working in tough country. few pics from a page I like...
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    Well done and best of luck. Courage should be rewarded. I would love the independence of being self employed. Unfortunately I'm more of a cog than a standalone machine. LOL
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    Absolute specimen!
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    Shit move on top of another shit move sacking Gavin Williamson as Defence Secretary. 100% political. Give it time and the truth will come out.
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    Think of it more like line breeding than Adam and Eve. Like all greyhounds having Master McGrath as a common ancestor. That dog didn’t create the greyhound breed, but it is a dominant ancestor. Population genetics tend to work like that with individuals being ‘selected’ and many other’s ‘line’ essentially withering. Ps, apologies if I don’t reply any time soon.
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    It’s probably the cheapest big game/mountain hunt available in truth. I’d be confident going back self guided probably now. I’ve got a feeling for how to go about things and pretty much have all the kit. If there was a few other lads who fancied going in as a mob for a week or ten days then I’d probably be up for that. The biggest problem would be transport in.
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    While on the Tahr mission I went three whole days without a shit! I was wondering where the f**k it was all going to the point I was scared to sneeze.
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    Andddddd I haven’t seen any of the new season of GoT or the new avengers film! I could murder a Starbucks too.
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