Thread: NZ Hunter Adventures, starts tomorrow, Sunday night, 8.30pm on Duke, Freeview13/Sky12

Rules are for the guidance of the wise and strict adherence of fools. I’m quite fond of that saying

I’d imagine that you’d need a concession to film a commercial TV program in a DOC managed area and you need a permit from DOC to fly a drone. With that in mind I was surprised how often the filming showed the dogs inside the hut. It would have been easy to make it appear as if they had never been in the hut.
None the less another great show with the best timed ending, almost scripted! :-)

The dogs must have had a vaccine pass to enter the hut.

Why the Antagonism ? Cant we just take the show for what it is and enjoy it . It is by far the best NZ hunting/outdoor production going.

Originally Posted by Nathan F

Why the Antagonism ? Cant we just take the show for what it is and enjoy it . It is by far the best NZ hunting/outdoor production going.

Exactly and I’m sure if a couple of Swedish trampers had turned up the dogs would have slept outside, a hut is just a dog kennel for people anyway

Now your really having a laugh must close to two years since anyone has seen a Swedish tramper in the Hermit kingdom

Originally Posted by outdoorlad

Exactly and I’m sure if a couple of Swedish trampers had turned up the dogs would have slept outside, a hut is just a dog kennel for people anyway

Originally Posted by Nathan F

Why the Antagonism ? Cant we just take the show for what it is and enjoy it . It is by far the best NZ hunting/outdoor production going.

Exactly

Swedish trampers would have been invited to the hot pools

The dogs have a medical exemption and are 'Diabetes awareness dogs'. They smell their master indicate when blood sugar is low

Another great show. Hard yards hunting alright. I prefer those episodes to ones on private land.
Persistence paid off and that stag was well earned. The dogs looked pretty well behaved so a non issue for me
I've let my dog sleep in a hut before.

Great episode and talk about doing the miles
Dogs in huts mean you need to burn less wood to keep warm
A snarling snapping critter with 2 or 4 legs would get the bums rush outside from me though

Those dogs are obviously not, half wild pig dogs that will go rogue at a moment's notice, friendly Labs under control. Good Job.

On tv shows, I watched one last night, wherein the presenter, was talking up his tracking skills and showed a Deer hoof print.

I congratulate the programme, on having such great wilderness skills, that they could come to that spot earlier, wipe the leaves clear of the ground, with their boot, leaving a clear patch of soft ground, in a semi circle shape, complete with a little pile of leaves, at one side, for the deer to come along later and leave a perfect and complete, foot print in the centre of the clear patch.

I wish I could understand deer that well.

Chesapeakes

Originally Posted by Gibo

Chesapeakes

Yes I saw that in the show, Chesapeake bay retrievers, my mistake, I didn't know Chesapeakes as a breed. My mate had a lab that looked like that, quite thick set, ergo my mis-identification.

@Copelli My mum was the same. She was in her late 80's and enjoyed the program; even when they didn't shoot something. I think enjoying an episode where they return empty handed shows how good the story is. She was never into hunting etc, but liked the story of them (mostly) walking in and also some of the climbing they did. Also; their ethics. Those ethics seem to be taken up by the younger generation on their YouTube channels too. Many of their channels are providing good content too.

We were watching it one night, it was the episode where Willie shot a huge red (16 pointer???) There was another party in the valley they were hunting in. Both parties saw the stag, and the other party buggered off after an hour or so. The Duley's stayed for about 2 days and shot it just on last light on the last night. Mum said "The reason they are always so successful is because they are patient". A wise observation from a non-hunter. I've always been amazed about the amount of non-hunters who like and regularly watch the program

As for the negative comments you sometimes hear/read; I think a lot of it comes down to jealousy. The Duley's have put their head up above the parapet and there are so many who think that they're "lucky because they get paid to hunt". Well; I reckon the realities of making a program like theirs, and keeping it high quality, is more than most people would have the guts to try. I bet they spend a lot more time behind the computers and also finding and keeping sponsors than any hunting.

Just imagine how much time it takes t set up shots, wait for Emil to get ahead of them for some angles, catch up from far behind for other angles. And the sheer nervousness of the "God I hope it's an interesting/successful trip" stress they are all probably experiencing most of the year, not just when hunting.

I think we have to be grateful to Hunting Aotearoa too for kicking off the hunting tv shows.