New to this forum. Planning first time hunt in NZ.

[Bagheera]

For tahr, you could start to narrow off some lage areas by looking at the department of conservation tahr nanagement plan: https://www.doc.govt.nz/globalassets...an-2023-24.pdf

First off, there will be very few in the northern and southern exclusion zones.
Second, populations will have been kept low in the two national parks Westland management unit 4a and Aoraki MU 4 b. The rest were shot over a couple of years ago but erratically and pockets of nannies plus a number of bulls persist.

Chamois are more widely distributed likely present in most tahr areas ( but slightly different habitat).

Stories in magazines and on web sites like this and You Tube of seeing many animals and collecting big horn with ease are often from ir accessed through private land and take years to develop contacts to access. So they are optimistic best case scenario. Nevertheless the mountains and the hunting here are fantastic, so come sooner rather than later.