Thread: Seeking Hunting Mentor

Originally Posted by Bagheera

Its not uncommon to team up with a more experienced hunter so your idea is a good one. Quite a few are keen to pas on whatevrr they ve learnt themselves. The best place to meet is face to face via mutual frein,ds or at a club trip.

I shot my first deer on a bushcraft course with the upper hutt branch under the expert guidance of Robin Blake. I still see qiite a few of those guys around on the rifle range sevrral decades later. Anothrr idea is to join a tramping club like hvtc or ttc. There are usually a few hunters there. Also you ll get a good grounding in bushcraft there ( dare I say it- more so than with straiht out hunters) and see a lot of great country that you can later choose from for hunting trips.

Dont worry that experience spotlighting will disqualify you from joining the NZDA. Its perfectly l
Legitimate on private land. Just grovelly hard work and who would bother except to fill the freezer ?

Since your identity is just new on the forum you could change your username to something more wholesome like "oleria" "greywacke" "karearea" etc. Have a look through the alphabetical list in this site to get an idea ir good and cringeworthy handles.

Thanks for the heads up, Shags is my nickname ive had since i was 10, my entire family and friends call me by it, Im pretty shore some of my best life long friends wouldn't know my real name

Sounds like NZDA might be a good bet, have got the membership forms printed out so I think I will look at signing up.