PurpleCrow
CGN Regular
- Location
- The Chilly North
How much do they charge for an outing like that?
New Zealand hunt report.
- Thread starter Mr Wolverine
- Start date
- Location
- Southern Vancouver Island
For a short stay hunting trip, you sure packed a ton of fun & nice trophies into that time frame. Very nice!
Can you get Canadian Club over there?
Can you get Canadian Club over there?
Mr Wolverine
CGN Regular
- Location
- Manitoba. Canada
A five day hunt for Chamois starts at $7,000 (worth every cent
) and the price goes up from there.
Mr Wolverine
CGN Regular
- Location
- Manitoba. Canada
For a short stay hunting trip, you sure packed a ton of fun & nice trophies into that time frame. Very nice!
Can you get Canadian Club over there?
Yes, it was a very intense five days. As for Canadian Club, no I always look for a local brew when I am abroad and I wasn't disappointed
Awesome stuff!
Is that due to human intervention that the population is high? Like humans expanding pasture land, culling predators, providing more grain crops to eat, and so on? I think in most cases this it the cause, but I wondered if you knew.
Is that due to human intervention that the population is high? Like humans expanding pasture land, culling predators, providing more grain crops to eat, and so on? I think in most cases this it the cause, but I wondered if you knew.
Mr Wolverine
CGN Regular
- Location
- Manitoba. Canada
These Goats are descendants from goats that were taken to New Zealand during a gold rush at the Shotover River. They escaped or were released when the gold rush was over, now they live in groups and destroy the grass tussocks. They have no natural predators, no Fox, Dingo, Coyote or Wolf live in New Zealand so the population is out of control.
Donny Fenn1
CGN Ultra frequent flyer
- Location
- East Kootenays
the goats are feral and shouldn't be there in the first place, they, like a lot of introduced species run rampant over the landscape (think wild pigs here) stripping the vegatation down so the indigenous wildlife are left with little to forage on
some of the Galapagos islands that were once pretty much jungles are deforested rocks due to the feral goats
Great photos of a beautiful landscape and an amazing adventure!
Dont know why, I love flying, but I always wonder what if?
That doesnt look like a great place to make an emergency landing.... good thing you didnt have to.
Dont know why, I love flying, but I always wonder what if?
That doesnt look like a great place to make an emergency landing.... good thing you didnt have to.
angrysoldier
CGN Ultra frequent flyer
- Location
- under your bed
wow, looks like a great time.
Thank you for sharing the video as it was great to watch. It was also nice to see the SP1 and its brass deflector as I was wondering how you kept the ejecting shells out of the pilots way.
Blasting away with an AR out of a helicopter over beautiful countryside, life doesn't get much better.
Blasting away with an AR out of a helicopter over beautiful countryside, life doesn't get much better.
John,
Thanks for these photos and story - nostalgia hitting hard at the moment.
To have an AR with magazines holding more than 7 rounds requires special licensing. I rather suspect that the company running the helicopter culling operations have Dept of Conservation (DOC) special licenses that allow them to use those. (To hunt deer on crown land, you need no hunting license - to hunt in the parks, you need a license to hunt in the park, but they're free, and DOC issues them along with a list of places they like to hide...)
I've lived there twice, hunted Tahr and Chamois (never saw any when I was out) (maybe I'm a bad hunter), and it's not for the faint of heart. The hills they live in are STEEP, as you can see from John's videos. Went on a goat cull or two using 4-wheel ATVs. My first one my friend and I got 43 in one day before I ran out of 6.5swede, and another day, walking a farm, I took 14 off to their makers. A young fellow I coached at the time described his trip hunting red deer once in "Otago". They were going to where they thought they'd find some deer, and saw a great white mass walking across a paddock (Kiwi for field) - They thought it was sheep to start, but it turned out to be a herd of 1500 feral goats..
So... Why did I come back to Canada? Hmm.. Oh, there was a recession....
Thanks for these photos and story - nostalgia hitting hard at the moment.
To have an AR with magazines holding more than 7 rounds requires special licensing. I rather suspect that the company running the helicopter culling operations have Dept of Conservation (DOC) special licenses that allow them to use those. (To hunt deer on crown land, you need no hunting license - to hunt in the parks, you need a license to hunt in the park, but they're free, and DOC issues them along with a list of places they like to hide...)
I've lived there twice, hunted Tahr and Chamois (never saw any when I was out) (maybe I'm a bad hunter), and it's not for the faint of heart. The hills they live in are STEEP, as you can see from John's videos. Went on a goat cull or two using 4-wheel ATVs. My first one my friend and I got 43 in one day before I ran out of 6.5swede, and another day, walking a farm, I took 14 off to their makers. A young fellow I coached at the time described his trip hunting red deer once in "Otago". They were going to where they thought they'd find some deer, and saw a great white mass walking across a paddock (Kiwi for field) - They thought it was sheep to start, but it turned out to be a herd of 1500 feral goats..
So... Why did I come back to Canada? Hmm.. Oh, there was a recession....
Thank you all for the reply: this is exactly what I figured it would be, just not as bad. These goats and feral pigs are the hunts I would love to go on: being able to help return natural habitat to the indigenous species it belongs to.
I'm jealous!!!
John: You shoulda plugged a couple more hundred for us!
