Thread: PRS is it a discipline practiced here in nz

Originally Posted by Woody

Simon and Malcolm Gillice have running these types of cimp for years. They also established the Hihitahi challenge which incorporated a 10km hike, several varying range shooting stations, native plant identification, navigation tests, emergency first aid tests, observation tests and traversing tests. Most of tge shooting was time limited and included range estimation. No range finders or gps were allowed or any other form of referencing other than map and compass.
These were a very good test of outdoor hunting skills but ultimately insufficiently patronised by hunters because some did not want to expise themselves to open competition of all skills. Thought the concept great and competed annually with about 40 others.

They stopped running them last year, it may come back in fashion but the number of attendee's made it untenable, so 2018 was the last one.

Bagheera won it a few times too iirc at least the 2018