Fiordland Wild Natives Wapiti Trip 2022

Hey Guys

Our Fiordland mission is finally here, with the FWF ballot opening again this month here is the release of last years mission into Wild Natives block, hope it gets you all frothing for the next bugle!
Jump over and check the video out.
Would be great to hear your thoughts!
Hope you enjoy! and bring on next year.

https://youtu.be/bKqRfYEusmI

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This is a challenging trip...gives me thought of purchasing a sony alpha.

Epic scenery and footage. What weight were your packs ?

Thanks mate, amazingly massive place aye.
Pack weights were between 30kg - 27kg with rifle

We met you guys on the (briefing) night so cool to hear your story. You made it through the weather a lot better than my mate and I! We made the decision to play it safe and get out on day 4 as all our gear was torn up, soaked and the country is unforgiving. We saw 2 small bulls in our short time actually hunting. Cool to see the different terrain in the other blocks, like you say it is massive in there and should not be underestimated! The briefing night was little dissapointing in my opinion, im not sure if it was early or just didnt happen but i would have liked some general information about how the pervious periods had gone, forecasted weather etc etc

Great watch, thanks Mate

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We met you guys on the (briefing) night so cool to hear your story. You made it through the weather a lot better than my mate and I! We made the decision to play it safe and get out on day 4 as all our gear was torn up, soaked and the country is unforgiving. We saw 2 small bulls in our short time actually hunting. Cool to see the different terrain in the other blocks, like you say it is massive in there and should not be underestimated! The briefing night was little dissapointing in my opinion, im not sure if it was early or just didnt happen but i would have liked some general information about how the pervious periods had gone, forecasted weather etc etc

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Yea mate we certainly covered some ground and we were very grateful for the amazing hilleberg tents in that storm!!
The briefing was terrible man, I have talked to a lot of people that were not very happy with how that was run, but I guess the drama of Covid and rule changes etc would have been pretty hard for them. I duno.

Thanks guys for showing us yr amazing vid,bloody good effort climbing around those tops with packs n rifles.

Gidday and thanks. Real hunting in (un) real country. The way you have filmed and crafted the story is way better than 99% of the "we shot a trophy" vids.

Thanks again for sharing!

Great stuff, thanks for sharing your epic trip.

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Great stuff, thanks for sharing your epic trip.

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+1 Fiordland is a special place :cool::cool:

Nice footage. What period was it, I'm guessing not 1 or 2. Maybe all the good 3 and 4 year olds had already been picked off!

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Nice footage. What period was it, I'm guessing not 1 or 2. Maybe all the good 3 and 4 year olds had already been picked off!

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We had period 3.
Seems like quite a lot of young bulls were shot this year. Bit of a shame

I really enjoyed that. Great effort from all of you.

Watched not long after you made public.
Great footage and scenery.
Looks like you had a good run with the weather rain wise at least.

Thoroughly enjoyed watching that. Very well made vid showing the full hunting experience and the good and bad that goes with it. Lucky you had good tents, wondering how my mineret would handle that weather.

Great trip guys. On my to do bucket list.

Cheers guys would recommend it to any keen hunter!!

Thanks for that really professional done! Like the bloopers at the end:XD:

Parrot was a Kaka. But you probably already know that:).

Really impressed with the footage. Looks like you had a good bunch of guys with you which makes a huge difference.

Question: What happened to the feet? ie how, why & out come…..what would you do differently.

Thanks again:)

Great video in some truely awesome country. You sure put in the hard yards.

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Thanks for that really professional done! Like the bloopers at the end:XD:

Parrot was a Kaka. But you probably already know that:).

Really impressed with the footage. Looks like you had a good bunch of guys with you which makes a huge difference.

Question: What happened to the feet? ie how, why & out come…..what would you do differently.

Thanks again:)

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Thanks man, yea we figured out the kaka in the end

The feet were a bit of a cock up, let’s just say new boots into fiordland is not a good idea (not me) hahaha