Thread: Meat hunter in NZ

Originally Posted by Moa Hunter

He Recovers ALL of the meat and said he had the rest of the day packing it out with the one stag. That second stag was in his prime and carried a top notch head so better to leave him as a breeder regardless. Come back and take him when he's grey on the muzzle.

After the fording of the glacier river on the Tahr hunt he's earnt my respect. Even with the chest waders, the cold from that glacier water with chunks of ice going past would penetrate to the marrow - the bones would be aching like they were broken.

In his book american buffalo he packed out the buffalo he killed in Alaska in pack rafts and damaged his feet quite badly. I think he said it was six months till the nerve damage began to come right.