FEW AND FAR BETWEEN
This one was about me and the Mountain Goat himself, Jason Thomsen heading into some West Coast scrub country in late November in search of a big, mature bull tahr for Jase. With trips few and far between these days however, it’s more about catching up and if a mature trophy ends up in the cross hairs, that’s just an added bonus.
With one of our good mates Mikey based at Franz Josef to do some pilot training, I shot down from Nelson the night before Jase and I were due to head in to our hunting location, to catch up with him, have a feed and a yarn about hunting.
The next morning dawned with patchy drizzle coupled with the standard coast low cloud blanketing the nearby tops. With only three nights planned, we couldn’t afford to bust into the hills a day late while waiting for the weather system to pass but it was not looking good at this point. Jase turned up after his drive from Queenstown and we grabbed a coffee while yarning to the pilot about the chance of getting in, glancing at the same time
