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BUCK TO BULL

“Yeap, sounds like a plan” Jake replied, as he always does. So, we both put our names in the hat for the ballot for the following year.

2020 closed with all sorts of epic alpine adventures done and dusted. At the start of the new year, the Fallow ballot was drawn and we had been allotted a desirable block for mid-May. We would catch the tail end of the rut.

As it drew closer, we were feeling excited about spending five days chasing Fallow after hunting Reds around the Canterbury hills for two weeks the previous month. It's a great time of year to be a hunter - Reds going late March into April, then the Fallow rut, followed by the chamois rut in May then a bit of tahr interest from

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