Thread: DIY Nonresident New Zealand hunt

Originally Posted by res

Yea, it's the policed part-I know a few guides(mostly fishing) and there is no way they have paid for all the places they take people.

I'm all for charging overseas people something to use our outdoors but saying they should use a guide is a lot like the gun shop owner the other day saying all gun sales should go through a shop-blatant self interest.

But guiding would be the best way to make the most of a visitors time

I would agree with the last statement. You can spend a lot of time figurine out where animals aren't before you find one. If you want to make the most of a brief (and I would class 12 months as brief for our country) then some guiding and / or local knowledge can make a big difference.

Knowing local conditions and hazards means less chance of something going wrong. Knowing what will or could be needed and what will not will also help. All this knowledge is often from experience, so a guide of some sort will help a lot. By guiding, I would refer to helpful locals as well as not all guides are professionals.

Certainly worth looking at.