Up And Over

@SOUTHISLANDRIFLEWALKERS

Sometimes you just want to look around the next corner and other times you want to push yourself.

You might be overdue a catchup with an old friend and, more often than not, you just want to go for a walk and get some air. The reason for this hunt lies somewhere between all of these.

It was mid-November and Chris and I wanted to head back into an area we'd previously hunted. The underlying aim was to find me an old bull tahr for the wall, but we'd be happy to return home with some meat. If you've hunted tahr you'll be familiar with 'lowvember'; at this time of the year, they often drop down from their life in the cliffs making them an easier target for us less vertically inclined hunters. It was a plan that had worked for us before - three years earlier we'd walked out of this same area with grins from ear to ear as Chris hauled his caped 14” bull home. We set off early on Saturday morning, hoping to repeat our previous success.