Thread: Hunting in New Zealand

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Your starting point for public land hunting areas.

Get a good mapping application with the public hunting boundaries. Memory Map is excellent, with 1:50,000 and 1:25,000 topo maps with the public hunting areas clearly marked. This enables planning your access and exit points, hut locations, routes. It is a very good idea to familiarise yourself intimately with the topo maps before you enter the mountains, map out routes, waypoints etc, so you have a clear idea of your likely daily distances and net vertical climbs. You can carry the maps on your phone.

https://memory-map.com/Maps.html

When hunting in unfamiliar territory, it is vital you know where you are at all times with respect to public / private land boundaries, there's been a couple of well publicised "poaching" incidents recently where hunters have strayed onto private stations, supposedly by accident. And been caught.