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Hi everyone!
Stumbled across this curious article.
I have been accumulating a collection of NZ hunting books, pretty much accidentally for the past year now. When I opened my latest addition the below newspaper clipping fell out.
Keen to hear if anyone on here has come across this story before. No clues as to when it is from sorry.
Probably printed on 1st April
Although one of the SpotX books had a printing blunder where it showed that there was Chamois in the Tararuas (or Mt Taranaki? Can't remember) was hard case
XD Could well be! Haha
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Yes, a Tahr was shot in the Tararuas although I always thought it was in the Otaki Forks area. Whereami who was on the old forum saw the dead animal. He said that it had very badly overgrown hooves - a product I guess of not being in its rocky alpine environment.
one of our staff from Wanganui shot a thar from the roadside National Park some years back so maybe pets let go - some strange ones around- sambar shot on Moki road North Taranaki - there were 9 thar known in the Naki 7 in Pouakai zoo 2 at Stoney Oaks zoo - the Poukai ones were shot but the Stoney Oaks ones dont know but when I saw them they were massive bulls --the Pouakai ones were a very sad lot mainly nannies
I saw a big bull tahr in the Kaikoiras 15 years ago.
About 5 km away bit a bull for sure
The guys I was with gave me shit all day because I was supposed to be the experienced hunter.
Anyway having some beers with the farmer the next evening one of these guys tells the farmer how useless a hunter I was because " I thought I saw a bull tahr"
And the farmer says " there's one up there somewhere with no nuts that escaped from a game farm last year "
Who looked like a dick after that ?
Are there not some thar in a couple of private estate places behind wire in the North Island?
There were 6 or so in a private block just off Marshlands road in Christchurch in the 1990's god knows what they were doing there.
I thought that Tararua one got choppered in for a laugh. Vague memory of that story from a flatmate who knew of it.
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I have heard persistant rumours that Bushy Knoll Station at back of Hangaroa Gisborne has some - but I cant confirm that - its a private safari block owned by wealthy AucklandersQuote:
Originally Posted by Friwi
I don't think it has Barry just reds and follow. Lived in the area long enough now and never heard of them been there.
thanks mate I did hear that the fences are down in places - we used to hunt it many years ago 1969 1970 ish lot of deer - no fallow then- I was shepherd at Tahunga - mate worked on it
Can’t see why it couldn’t have happened. People have been shifting animals/fish around this country ever since man arrived here. Back in the ‘90’s a mature Tahr was seen in the head of Long Valley in Marlborough, by two experienced Tahr hunters,while spreading fertiliser on farm.
The two shot at Pipiriki were escaped from a fenced hunting lodge not far away. The biggest bull is mounted and on display with the plaque reading "North Island Record Tahr - Free Range". It was not an illegal import but had escaped. The hunting outfit don't have tahr there anymore, too hard to keep in captivity. And to be fair a big part of the tahr experience is the country you find them in.
ha bit like the Wangamomona pub has a skin with long tail on wall labelled biggest possum ever taken in Wanga actually wallaby from South Island
A giant South Island possum then :-) I remember seeing it years ago
I've seen a picture of Dave Shaw head skinning a Sambar at the Footy Field on the Mohaka.
I knew Dave quite well back then and he assured me the picture was legit.
1970 our neighbour shot a Rusa back of Gisborne at Tahunga saw the head - now numbers of Rusa in that area but all got out from a safari operation a local station there tried to set up - have not heard much since but a keen hunter with a property at Ruatoria apparently let sika go up there - but that sambar on Moki road North Taranaki thats a mystery - definitely a sambar have seen the head - lot of info that a deer farmer some years ago at Tarata had rusa - but when I went out after being asked to investigate it he had sold and moved - you just never know what you are going to see
My understanding was that it had escaped from Lindale animal park Near Paraparaumu.
This was shot in the "50 acre" , Muhunoa East in behind Levin
