Thread: American Hunter Needing Advice

Hey everyone! I've been trying to plan a trip down to NZ for the last 6 months. Between joining this forum and doing my research on the DOC website I have a couple of areas narrowed down that I am curious about. The first area I was looking at was the Karangaru and Douglas valley routes. To me this looks like it could be some good hunting. But one negative about it is it seems that those valleys are highly trafficked areas.

The second area, which really got me excited looking at the DOC maps was the Snowy Gorge Creek that goes up into the Hideaway Biv and the Snowy Gorge Hut. Not only does this area seem like some good hunting, but according to DOC there is a variety of species to hunt in this area. I am not looking at taking any trophy animals, but just a good representative species of whatever I'm hunting. (Tahr, Stag, Chamois, and hopefully a Fallow.) I am curious if there are many members of this forum that have hunted these two areas and how they treated you. Especially the Quailburn hunting block.

This trip is still about 2-3 years out. I am still trying to save up some money and vacation time as well as finding a couple of buddies to go with me to help split the costs of everything. My plan is to fly into Christchurch, rent a vehicle, and be out hunting in NZ for about 2 weeks.