Thread: Advice for DIY tahr hunt for nonresident

@mountain_lunatic - when you look at a map and think "that's not so high" or "I can get from there to there in x time easy", consider this: some of us have hunted this country our entire lives, and often measure progress as hrs per kilometer, not kilometers per hr. Mountain and bush hunting fitness is a question of perception related to the terrain you typically hunt, our bush will give you nightmares, especially if your nav is shit. Find a 10 story building, put 10 kilos or so in your pack, put it on and pick up a length of scaffold tube (a rifle might make people nervous) and spend 10hrs or so bashing up the stairs to the top, then back down to the bottom - rinse and repeat with the occasional break for a few minutes. Then decide on your fitness. You get in the shit on some nasty bit of hill, it will be fitness and bloody mindedness that keeps you alive.