Thread: Advice for DIY tahr hunt for nonresident

PM me if you want some advice around the areas you’re looking at I’m help to lend my opinion and help you out. Yes areas outside the ballot definitely have good chamois and tahr numbers, in good areas it’s not uncommon to sit at the hut and see both species


This is a pretty typical example of west coast tahr country which is where the ballots are, not to say there aren’t some easier going blocks though. This is in late September and there is a lot less snow then a mid winter hunt. I would not have wanted to be there in mid winter.

This is end of August and is what most of us would call some more acceptable tahr hunting country
I was speaking with a guy on a search and rescue mission earlier this year and he said the biggest issue is people from overseas not quite grasping how actually difficult the country is here based on how it looks on a map (not to say you are doing that) but it pays to always expect it to be more inaccessible than it looks, especially if you’ve never been here before. What you don’t want to have happen is getting choppered into somewhere that was a bit out of you comfort zone and you either get no hunting done or push yourself too far and get in trouble