Congrats and well done on your trip. Sounds like everything worked out perfectly with a couple of nice trophies.
Send me a PM if you want help for any future NZ hunts.
Even with the delay in the price increases I decided to drop out, I was really only collecting general deer points. My son and I have enough points in CO, WY, MT and AZ to keep us busy.
There is hunting to the north of where you hunted. Its public (DOC) land and has deer in good numbers, but not great trophy potential but with some luck, and a week of hunting, you should get the same size of deer that you got with Ollie.. And you get to shoot as many as you want at any time of...
Enjoy your training guys, great idea. If I was closer I’d be there!
I do have a hill close to me for training, it’s 450m vert and 6kms so similar and good for hunt training.
Just returned from a stag roar hunt in the same area as 2024. No shooter stags seen but a great place to spend a week interacting with a lot of roaring stags. Here’s a few photos.
I’m in the same situation as you, my son turns 18 next year and I have been buying him points.
My plan is to keep buying points for him for deer and elk but just apply for sheep and goat tags. Very low odds to draw a tag, but figure it's only another few dollars to play that lottery.
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