Thread: Climbing & killing deer with my 6 XC

Originally Posted by viper

Very enjoyable to watch and informative as usual. Love your camera / filming work....not sure how you manage to do it all and do some fine shooting but awesome from start to finish.
Thanks for posting.

Practice. It's no different than getting the rifle out, but the stalking takes a lot longer than if you're just out to shoot them.

Originally Posted by Bagheera

I like to take my gloves off if the going gets difficult. You need to get a good grip on those short tussocks and shrubs.

Here is a NZ article on safe travel in the subalpine zone by Johnny Mulheron. He has written up reviews of fatal accidents in the NZ Mountains in the FMC bulletin for many years.

Almost always, there is an easier safer route nearby, if you have the patience and fitness to backtrack and find it. Don't be rushed into a suicide route.

Thanks for the post, Norway.

Thanks for the link, excellent article! I almost walked myself into a tight spot first time I visited NZ, coming around the slope it was getting steeper and wetter (there was just lumps of speargrass (name?) everywhere, made the firm ground hard to see) and I was simply unable to find a good rest anywhere and just had to keep going. That had me worried as I was too far in to get off and was more than a bit worried about sliding and gaining speed/ tumbling. Nothing happened, not a step went wrong but it left me shaken as I didn't see the trap until I was in it.