Thread: Hunting in New Zealand

Hi!
Let me know if a post like this doesn’t belong here, I’m using this forum for the first time.

I’m Fabian, a hunter from Bavaria in Germany. I will be traveling to your great country in March/April next year!
The first two weeks I’ll be traveling with a good friend of mine (also a hunter) from Denmark. After that, I can’t decide what to do. The thing I enjoy most about a holiday in a foreign country is being outdoors, living off the land, meeting local people. You could call it “having the local experience”.
Emil, my Danish friend, really wants to go hunting and hiking in the mountains of the South Island and he wants to shoot a chamois badly. I don’t care what I hunt, as long as I can eat it it’s fine for me. I have a big hunting reserve here in Bavaria and I’ve been hunting a lot in a second reserve in the Alps as well so I’m experienced in hunting in the mountains as well as with red deer, roe deer, wild boar, badger, beaver, chamois and a lot of small game like fox, ducks, crows or hares. I don’t care about trophies, neither do I care about the species. I just want to have a nice adventure outdoors 😊
My questions for all of you would be:
Are there any spots or areas you could recommend, on one hand for chamois hunting as a foreigner on the South Island and on the other hand an area where I could go stalking (even for a feral goat would be completely fine for me) by myself or with someone local after my friend leaves?
Do I just have to buy a hunting license and a license for the area that I want to hunt in and then I’m good to go for whatever (legally huntable) animal I can find? Is it possible to rent guns or should I bring one from home? The hunting system in Germany is very different, here you have to rent a reserve if you want to hunt somewhere and then it’s yours for the length of the contract.
What would be the best place to stay? Is it possible at that time of the year to sleep in a tent and go to a lodge or something like that every third/fourth day to recharge camera and phone? Or would it be smarter to rent a lodge or something from AirBnB and just start stalking from there every day?
Does anyone want to join me/meet up? I know it’s quite far in the future but we could talk a bit before I arrive to get to know each other. 75% of the fun in hunting is the companionship for me! And it would be less boring And who knows if you ever want to come to Germany to shoot a roe, boar, beaver, badger, fox, duck, crow, hare or whatever I’ll be sure to make that possible in my hunting reserve!
I’m sure there are a lot of more questions to come but that’s it for now 😊
Thank you, guys, in advance!

Best,
Fabi