Tahr thanks!
Ever since reading stories in hunting magazines as a teenager, I had eagerly anticipated the time when I would have the chance to hunt the Himalayan tahr. Some years ago, after seeing a wonderful 14"-plus mounted specimen taken by my good mate Warren McKay, I knew that the majestic bull tahr was an animal that I definitely had to hunt.
Tahrs are threatened in their home range in the Himalayas, so there are really only two other places in the world that they can be legally hunted - Texas and the South Island of New Zealand.
Several of our mates had hunted tahrs in recent years with Dave Campbell from Outback Hunting New Zealand and had given him the two thumbs up. In NZ, tahrs, like deer, have continued to spread throughout the alps of the South Island and have been subject to Department of Conservation (DOC) controlled shooting programs. Dave spent many years hunting and
