Heading to New Zealand today

[Wade Burns]

Sitting in Dallas waiting for the next leg of my journey. Have my FE shirt on, FEduffel at my side and my Randolph’s. Should be set to kill lol. I’m looking forward to the hunt for Tahr and Chamois with a mix of some other things as well if all goes smoothly. First time in NZ. Spent some time in the South Pacific before but not this area. Excited to see some new country.

 

[Al "Shifty" Schultz]

Sitting in Dallas waiting for the next leg of my journey. Have my FE shirt on, FEduffel at my side and my Randolph’s. Should be set to kill lol. I’m looking forward to the hunt for Tahr and Chamois with a mix of some other things as well if all goes smoothly. First time in NZ. Spent some time in the South Pacific before but not this area. Excited to see some new country.

Good luck! I'm sure you will have an amazing time!

 

[YETI]

Have fun and kill some shit!

 

[Terry Houin]

Good luck and keep us posted with pics. NZ is on my short list.

 

[Ron Dan]

Sitting in Dallas waiting for the next leg of my journey. Have my FE shirt on, FEduffel at my side and my Randolph’s. Should be set to kill lol. I’m looking forward to the hunt for Tahr and Chamois with a mix of some other things as well if all goes smoothly. First time in NZ. Spent some time in the South Pacific before but not this area. Excited to see some new country.

I got an ex girlfriend roaming around NZ and she fake babied me to keep me around. So as long as you avoid her, should be an awesome trip!

 

[Wade Burns]

A few shots from first couple days

 

[Wade Burns]

 

[Wade Burns]

There’s a Tahr there somewhere!



Those Chamois sure like to hide in the rocks. Was cool to see this one up close.


Shot mine also where he ran up into a rock shelter.


Had a blast hunting these guys. My friend still has to get his Chamois hopefully tomorrow if weather holds. Then on to do some red stag hunting and some duck hunting and fishing. Thanks for following along!

 

[Wade Burns]

I got an ex girlfriend roaming around NZ and she fake babied me to keep me around. So as long as you avoid her, should be an awesome trip!

She showed me the kid. Sure looks like you!

 

[Wade Burns]

Good luck and keep us posted with pics. NZ is on my short list.

You like climbing this is for you! Was a great time. Did a helicopter drop and then hunted them up. Was a lot of fun and cool country to stalk in.

 

[Wade Burns]

Inbound with a pair of chamois this morning.

Finished up at Fox Glacier and headed to Wanaka today to drop off the Tahr and Chamois I got.

This is a pile of stag! That was just a small amount they were preparing. He said they do around 3000 heads a year.


Once done I found a hotel and a nice bar. I head to Twizel tomorrow to start my stag hunt. If I’m successful early enough then I will get a little duck hunting and trout fishing in hopefully. New Zealand is truly an outdoorsman’s paradise.

 

[Chiro1989]

Very cool, I have a Kiwi friend that just went out on his 65th consecutive duck hunting opener on 5/2

 

[Wade Burns]

Very cool, I have a Kiwi friend that just went out on his 65th consecutive duck hunting opener on 5/2

Going on my 1st tomorrow! Can’t wait.

Prepped some chamois and Tahr tonight.


Both were very delicious and tender. Wish one could bring it home. Oh well we have a few more nights of making some. Hope to add a little stag and duck to the menu as well!

 

[Wade Burns]

A few pictures from today’s travels. Completely different country. Some of it reminds me of chukar hunting country Even saw a bird dog rig so someone was likely hunting them or quail.

 

[Jeff Forrester]

Sitting in Dallas waiting for the next leg of my journey. Have my FE shirt on, FEduffel at my side and my Randolph’s. Should be set to kill lol. I’m looking forward to the hunt for Tahr and Chamois with a mix of some other things as well if all goes smoothly. First time in NZ. Spent some time in the South Pacific before but not this area. Excited to see some new country.

Enjoy and be sure to send pictures

 

[Jeff Forrester]

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Look at that here are the pictures!

 

[Wade Burns]

A few pics from this morning.
Eagerly awaiting

Picking up after a successful morning.


A stack of black swans, Canada Geese, and a pair of Paradise Shell ducks
I tripled on swans with one shot twice in a row. Even caught one trio on video lol.

And final pic is my buddy Steve holding up my Paradise ducks like he shot them!

We also did have one fatality in our crew today.

 

[Bill Mazelin]

@Wade Burns, this is awesome! Thanks for bringing us along . . . so far. Great adventure for sure. Good luck on the rest of the trip.

 

[Wade Burns]

Yesterday I got to chase stag. We hunted throughout the morning and didn’t find any until around noon. We found a group of hines with a huge stag but they busted on us before we got into position for a shot as he was bedded in the brush and couldn’t get a clean shot off. Later in the day we found some bulls grouped up as the roar is over and they are starting to bunch up again. We come over the hill and there they were. They took off across the canyon and up the other side of the mountain. We were lucky that a two track road led down to the bottom of the canyon so we only had to hike up the next part of the mountain a bit until we got within 300yds. I set up and waited until he fed into the open and took a good shot on him. He went about 20yds and fell over. Was a great way to finish off my big game hunting here! We are after wallaby today. Tomorrow I start the drive to Christchurch and fly home the following. Here are a few pics from the day.
He was an old boy. Almost no teeth left.

 

[Chiro1989]

Love those prehistoric looking racks! Gun, scope, caliber, bullet, bullet performance? Details please...