Thread: Big (potentially final) South Island Trip

Originally Posted by nor-west

The Haupiri Trent tops country held some beauty heads in the early 1980,s saw a few very good heads on the deer pile at Aickens (chopper shot ) and saw 2 great heads when hunting the same area with my Father in Law in 1980 so good genetics in that area. Probably shot out by Waro nowadays.

This. Good advice. Do some homework on it and spend double the time you'd think necessary and you just might be surprised. I shot a very good stag in the North Esk about 10 years ago (on private land but it'd probly come in from DOC land)