Thread: Advice for new hunters?

Originally Posted by Frodo

Jump onto the DOC website Hunting: Things to do find out the location of hunting areas which hold the animal you're trying to hunt, and then jump onto.......

This website. https://www.topomap.co.nz/ Type in the hunting area into the search box, and it'll come up with a topographical map. Study that map until your eyeballs are about to pop out. :0)

Let it be your best friend - and if you don't quite understand topo maps, do some research, and then get back to that website and study whichever hunting area that interests you.

Use it in conjunction with everything you learn about wind, weather, animal feeding patterns, animal locations during different time of year...etc, which you'll find out about in these two books (one of which was mentioned by northdude):


Buy both of those books - essential reading. And then get out there and make a tonne of mistakes and learn from them. :0) I'm still trying to figure it out myself.

Good feature of the topo maps site is you can use the slider bar at the top to fade from topo to satellite imagery