Thread: Whiteout Chamois

As josh said he put out an SOS and commented how rewarding it is to take out visiting hunters. So i put my name down and this is how it went.

I picked Rupert up on saturday night to shoot some wallabies and a tahr. After getting to know Rupert over a feed of indian takeaways with my family i was satisfied he was mentaly stable and was happy for him to stay at my place and to take him out for some animals.

We went out 9pm for some wallabies with a couple others we managed to get 16 wallabies Rupert shooting 2 or 3 i think. most shot by the guy with the 243. When we moved to the next block the wallabies dried up but the rabbits came out. 86 rabbits later we were done it was 2am and day one was over.
Day two rolled around too fast, 6am and we were up. We got our kit organized and set off to the mount cook area. The forcast was poor but we went for a look anyway. After a couple hrs we were at twizel, it was pissing down and was black as black where we were going to hunt. Im not the most experenced hunter and i didnt want to get us into any shit so the tahr hunt was called off. The 3.5 hour round trip was not in vein as we found out the pies in the oasis in omarama were very good.

When we got home i took the kids and a surley wife to the movies to make peace while Rupert recovered from the 3.5 hours sleep.

4pm Rupert and i set some deeks up on my pond it was a very quiet night. We only managed a Parrie which Rupert was stoked with as they were on his list of game he wanted to shoot. the next day we went back to the spread and after half a hour of not seeing anything i called up the niehbour for permission to stalk his flood channel. After missing a group of mallard Rupert ticked off another species, black swan he shot 4 which is an act of treason in england.

It was great to meet Rupert and hunt with him. It was a shame we couldnt get on to tahr but he did end up with 3 new species of game crossed of his list. Today a guide is taking him after tahr, good luck to him.