First Time Tahr
MY GOOD mate Ned and I started planning our first NZ hunting trip around nine months before we left and after scouring forums, Google earth and DOC maps had come up with several options on likely places we wanted to hunt.
Our goal for the trip was to get our first NZ tahr; an animal that while not only having excellent vision, hearing and sense of smell, also lived in some of the most daunting terrain NZ has to offer. Inaccessible cliffs, scree slopes, flooded rivers and native flora that loves to poke holes in you among other hazards, has brought many a prospective tahr hunter unstuck over the years, so we were looking forward to the challenge.
After completing the lengthy process of flying out of Australia with firearms, applying for a NZ visitors firearm license and several other hurdles one has to jump to make the trip a reality, the day had arrived for us to leave.
