Thread: Thank you NZ Hunter!

Would be interesting if rec hunters have shot a descent stag in there the last 2 years or so? Usually see or hear something? So with social media and the WARO comments - appears maybe not much about head wise recently?

I didn't hear of anything great. There was a different operator doing WARO the last couple years and he had seemed to have a scorched earth fly all day for one deer approach. The decline in deer numbers on the tops was significant. The Wanganui got hit particularly hard due to being close home for that fella.
The deer will be back but operators like him do worse damage than the others who've been in it for the long run.

Watched it last night, the guy that shot the moose cracked of the two shots unbelievably quickly - especially for a bolt action.

But man those moose are whoppers!

Thanks @GregD and company

Great to hear the real story of African Trophy Hunting as a conservation and rural community welfare tool being told.

Media would have you believe that it is hunting decimating Africa’s wildlife but in fact it is population growth and habitat destruction.
Trophy hunting is a tool to allocate land and resources to conservation area, without Africa’s animals are stuffed.


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Originally Posted by Finnwolf

Watched it last night, the guy that shot the moose cracked of the two shots unbelievably quickly - especially for a bolt action.

But man those moose are whoppers!

You wait as long as they do or pay as much as some guys do on guided hunts and you shoot until its not standing. There are many frantic shoot the thing again while guiding. The shot paid off but thought it wasn't a great angle but that could easily be the camera angle and I don't know what cartridge and projectile he was running.

Fantastic episode last night. Loved the the chat from the Professional Hunter in Zimbabwe. I found it very interesting and an aspect you would not see from western media.

Woow some buitifull big hunting areas in yr show last night.The size of that moose was amazing.
Thanks for showing.

Great episode. Emils old man is crack up. The quality of animals in that Poland hunt was awesome. The management plan, environment and then general education and ethics of the hunters really does show the possibilities when things are done well. Nothing like beautiful big red stags to get this kiwi hunter excited!

Originally Posted by outdoorlad

I’d say Waro is stuffed for a few years, the stags have got a pass this roar with the lockdown so things are looking up for the serious Alpine Hunter in the short term.
@GregD What an huge walk, my knees got sore just watching it great so see that country, and I don’t mind an episode when it doesn’t work out because that’s the way hunting is sometimes.

I hope so but it takes a long time to replace the most mature animals. It'd be interesting to see what 6 years without waro would do. Might not be as good as we would expect with animal numbers booming and straining the available feed.

Poland, Africa, and Moose! My evening is sorted, hurray for On-demand!

Originally Posted by 7mmwsm

Willie did state it was a shot any Texan would be proud of. And that's certainly what it looked like. I thought someone else had given it one as well, the shots were that close together.

I didn't rewatch but I though it went it the rear back steak into the chest cavity causing the collapse from spinal damage then the second was his mate I thought but hard to tell. Regardless it went down quick. I watched one suck up 4 rounds of 300 Weatherby like nothing happened. Was dead from the first but it stood there and looked around. It was a meat hunter so they didn't want to damage meat so where shooting perfectly broadside through the crease with partitions. The lungs and top of the heart was shredded. They are tough for sure but they die fine think they just have a lot of blood in them to drain before they conc it.

Just finished watching it.
I have never been interested in any African game except maybe a big Kudu.
Will definitely add Africa to my bucket list after that. Just for the scenery alone would be enough.
Really enjoyed the talk by the PH. regarding trophy hunting.
Poland eh. Some nice looking stags there for sure. Shows what good if somewhat strict management can achieve.
I could relate to the moose hunt. Just about every hunt is last minute after almost giving up. Some of the calling was a bit different to how I was taught.

Thought the fella who guided in BC saying you get 300lbs of meat off a moose was off by nearly half. Unless he was talking about moose in Alberta in particular. They're big boned but average over 1300lbs as a mature bull in northern BC.
You should yeild 53% weight of meat off a deer or moose.
Fastest and most accurate 2nd shot I have seen with a crank gun. If it was a Kiwi shooting it may have been head or neck shot.

Moose in pic from a couple yrs ago is still the biggest bodied one I have encountered. Just a beast of an animal. Client in pick isint a small man either.
His track was longer than my size 10 Lowa boot. I have cut up half a dozen bulls with a bit of help from the client holding things. This fella took 2 of us to hold a leg up while the 3rd worked the knife.



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Originally Posted by 7mmwsm

Willie did state it was a shot any Texan would be proud of. And that's certainly what it looked like. I thought someone else had given it one as well, the shots were that close together.

Aye, sure looked like a Texas heart shot to me. And that 2nd shot was so fast it had to be some one else backing up the shooter?
And one or both must have hit the CNS to drop it like it did.

Originally Posted by R93

Just finished watching it.
I have never been interested in any African game except maybe a big Kudu.
Will definitely add Africa to my bucket list after that. Just for the scenery alone would be enough.
Really enjoyed the talk by the PH. regarding trophy hunting.
Poland eh. Some nice looking stags there for sure. Shows what good if somewhat strict management can achieve.
I could relate to the moose hunt. Just about every hunt is last minute after almost giving up. Some of the calling was a bit different to how I was taught.

Thought the fella who guided in BC saying you get 300lbs of meat off a moose was off by nearly half. Unless he was talking about moose in Alberta in particular. They're big boned but average over 1300lbs as a mature bull in northern BC.
You should yeild 53% weight of meat off a deer or moose.
Fastest and most accurate 2nd shot I have seen with a crank gun. If it was a Kiwi shooting it may have been head or neck shot.

Moose in pic from a couple yrs ago is still the biggest bodied one I have encountered. Just a beast of an animal. Client in pick isint a small man either.
His track was longer than my size 10 Lowa boot. I have cut up half a dozen bulls with a bit of help from the client holding things. This fella took 2 of us to hold a leg up while the 3rd worked the knife.



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That's a ripper Moose Sure is a big boy. Weighing out quarters last season the biggest moose went 205lbs on one of the rears and 200 on the other. The both in the 190s in the front. When you can have 5 to 10 pounds difference in weight and you can't really see it you know they are big critters. The neck on them is like a hole other quarter. I'd say the weight is what they get back from the butcher. We let the butcher know we had weighed quarters when we would drop them off as my outfitter has had issues with it coming back very short. @R93 how did you find moose? It's shocked me how good it was especially from rutting bulls.