A few photos and words from 2013 so far...

This year has been quite busy for me, more on the hunting side of things rather than work which is always nice.

First up was a work trip to the Nelson Lakes. My second ever Chamois, a nice young buck with nice hooks and good potential I’m told.
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My first decent hunt of the year in early March was my second ever trip chasing Sika in the Central North Island. A week camping on the tops. It is amazing how far you can go once you get up there. Managed to secure my third ever Sika, a wee 6 point stag. The number of flies in that warm NI country still amazes me.
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hillclima’s neat dogs helped carry all our gear...

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Another work trip to the Nelson Lakes with enough spare time after work to get a few sausages:
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The red roar rolled round which I spent in Otago with TripleT. A few younger animals taken unfortunately but all meat was put to good use. 26kg of sausages from one animal! Although we did well in animal numbers, the roaring was a bit half hearted.
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The Blue Mountains this year were a bit lacklustre with not much croaking going on. Did manage a poor looking buck though...
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I managed another buck in the Greenstone, but not of the same species...
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And just this last week we had a bit of a washed out trip into the Edison River. No animals were shot unfortunately
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nice

Fantastic. And great photos... well done!

Good shit! Covered some awesome country :thumbsup:

:thumbsup: Nice photos

Awesome mate. Thanks for sharing!

Awesome! Mr Wildman.

Awesome work trips

Good effort , you won't be going hungry .

Awesome :thumbup:

Been a busy man.

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awesome pics, thanks wildman. did you see many thar in the edison?

Brilliant year for you so far Wildman. Good on ya

Thanks guys. If anyone wants some venison just get in touch...

Savage, didn't see many in the Edison but it wasn't helped by the fact we couldn't get far from camp most of the time due to the large amount of soft powdery snow.... We came out early due to that.

WOW you live the dream wildman!!! bloody awsome.

Thats a :cool: wee wrap up of the year so far,thanks.

nice work wildman thanks for posting

Nice one,you've had a great time.Thought I recognized the two pooches.

wicked photographs

Sweet pics wildman.
Your definitely living the dream

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Well done. You certainly covered a lot of ground, seen a lot of country and had an awesome time doing it :cool:

Brilliant Wildman, some really nice animals there, you must have had a ball.....

Nice one mate, nothing seen in the Edison? Pritty wet eh? Did you have 6th period? Nice wee fellow aswell, wouldn't mind chasing them

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Originally Posted by Smiddy

Nice one mate, nothing seen in the Edison? Pritty wet eh? Did you have 6th period? Nice wee fellow aswell, wouldn't mind chasing them

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We seen some just couldnt get to them with the snow the way it was. Had to get up through a nasty wee gut one side of camp and through a bluff system the other... Too soft for crampons, too slippery for just boots...

Best deer in the world I reckon:)

There is fuck all snow left in there at the moment after the rain we just had, be good hunting at the mo but looks like it will poop it's pants again tomorrow, mean day over here at the moment

Yeah we just struck it bad i think. Oh well you win some and lose some:)

Don't let the missus here you want to chase some fellows smiddy! :D:D:D

You would have more chance of a leave pass to chase some fallow i recon ;)

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We seen some just couldnt get to them with the snow the way it was. Had to get up through a nasty wee gut one side of camp and through a bluff system the other... Too soft for crampons, too slippery for just boots...

Best deer in the world I reckon:)

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Shit sorry to hear about the Edison man.

We got shat on too that week.

Chris

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Shit sorry to hear about the Edison man.

We got shat on too that week.

Chris

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Not your fault... Shit happens...

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Don't let the missus here you want to chase some fellows smiddy! :D:D:D

You would have more chance of a leave pass to chase some fallow i recon ;)

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Bahahahahahah, don't need to get leave passes anyway mate I got it good

Nice pics:cool:

Spot on, good hunting

Kirk

Some fantastic photos:thumbsup: