Thread: new Zealand big game grand slam?

Originally Posted by Bavarian_Hunter

Why not aim for the South Pacific big game?

Add on our big game:

Chital - Dumb as bat shit
Water Buffalo - Dumb but $$
Banteng - $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$
Hog Deer - Good luck

Thats my aim, I'm plugging away at em.
So far have:

Red
Fallow,
Chital,
Sika,
Tahr,
Sambar - to be improved hopefully this May

Originally Posted by Bavarian_Hunter

Thats my aim, I'm plugging away at em.
So far have:

Red
Fallow,
Chital,
Sika,
Tahr,
Sambar - to be improved hopefully this May

Once you have done the lot you can start on ticking them all off with the bow, now that would be a challange. I would love to get a chital, they are nice looking animals

Originally Posted by PerazziSC3

Once you have done the lot you can start on ticking them all off with the bow, now that would be a challange. I would love to get a chital, they are nice looking animals

Thats the great thing about bows, got my fallow down there but a long long way to go!
Chital are more beautiful in real life than even the pics, theyre just so stupid its not really hunting. They are herd animals that live in open plains and you can easily get to within 150 m from them while they're looking at you (in a car even closer) before they'll move off. also because of dingos they dont like to stray too far from farms so they're always within 5km. The challenge is that the difference between a cracker and an average head is only 3 or 4 inchese which is hard to judge on the hoof.

They'd be a great challenge with the bow though and thats what I'm planning on doing in the next couple of years

Originally Posted by PerazziSC3

Just wondering who has done this? Would be pretty sweet to get a trophy of every big game animal, im just trying to get all of the animals first.
Just thinking what their is

Goat
Pig
Red skin
Fallow
Sika
White tail
Chamois
Tahr
Rusa
Sambar
Wapiti
Moose?

I have them up to chamois hopefully get a tahr and sambar this year. Once I bag one of each I will start on getting fussy with trophies!

Any others for the list?

I have done all the UK species.

Red
Sika
Fallow
Roe
Muntjac
Chinese water deer
Wild goat
Wild boar

Just need to make a start on the rest of the world now.

Cheers

I've got:

Wild Pig
Red Stag (10pt)
Whitetail

Here's my 2 reds from this year.



And some other old stuff. Not even sure where they all are now.



Tahr (12.75")



Chamois (10")



Here's a beauty from the meat days when I was a bit younger ...



And here's a cast that I picked up in the Ruatiti public land 4 years ago...



Anyone can get this stuff. The secret is doing the hard yards and living long enough. I have been fortunate so far with the latter, and not very good at the former

Originally Posted by Tahr

Anyone can get this stuff. The secret is doing the hard yards and living long enough. I have been fortunate so far with the latter, and not very good at the former

Living by that motto is what keeps me in the bush!

wow thats an awesome fallow cast tahr. Also like the shape of that tahr head. My only "trophys" are chamois buck and arapawa ram. Lucky i have time on my side to add to the list

how old are you perazzi?

21 man, your about the same age arent ya?

Yeh probably got a couple of months on ya. Need to keep reminding myself that when I look at my trophy room and get disheartened ha

Jeese guys, i only took up hunting this year at 55, you two have got 'heeeeeeeeeeeeeeeps' of time on your side!!!!!!!!