HUNTING WITH LLAMAS

After a long morning lugging a hind and yearling out of a frosty Canterbury river valley, I remember thinking ‘this is really a bit stupid, I’m going to hurt myself doing this’

WRITTEN BY ~ TOBY NICHOLLS

I have back issues already from falling off a horse in my younger days so I am a bit conscious about making it worse. On this occasion, I was loaded up with boned out venison and there was no turning back. A few months later, inspired by some serious time racked up watching YouTube videos I decided to embark on a journey to find someone in NZ who might be able show me how to hunt with pack animals. After just three phone calls I managed to find some people who hunted with llamas, and this is the story of the trip that followed. I was heading into the St James conservation area with a new buddy Brad, who I’d met on a meat hunt last spring. Brad had seen…

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