FIORDLAND CHAMOIS

We were only days away from starting our leave. Having spent many weeks preparing for our roar trip and with the whole month of April off, it was lining up to be a cracker until the unexpected happened

WRITTEN BY ~ ADAM MCGRATH

With the entire world facing a pandemic and NZ going into full lockdown, our dreams of finding a mature Fiordland Red stag in the roar were cut short. The first few weeks of lockdown were stunning here in Fiordland and the bluebird days just seemed to go on and on. Knowing the hills were full of roaring stags made that time especially hard for keen hunters, so it was then and there that my good mate Aaron and I started working on a plan for as soon as lockdown lifted. It was mid-May and the chamois were in rut mode so we decided to target them first as there was a resident mob we had been watching some months earlier. Then we’d hit the bush for a feeding stag. With…

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