dear sir new Zealand is awesome I suggest that you take your wife along. I did and we spent 2 weeks in NZ
here are my thoughts for you there are 2 islands north and south aukland is on the north island and it is very different than the south. If you want to hunt tahr and chamois you must go to the south island which is much more mountainous and beautiful!! ALL THE PEOPLE ARE VERY NICE AND FRIENDLY,
tahr and chamois only live in the moutains. Our versions of ranchs are what they call estates and some are very large. they raise the red deer and stags for meat to sell to Europe and velvet and antlers powder to sell to china so there are literally millions and also to sell to hunters. Hunting generally falls into 2 categories small independent type outfits that don't own any estates and hunt free range or pay the big estates for acess.
The animals aka the stags are priced by the inch they score, those inside the high fence of the estates are more expensive those outside the fence cheaper but smaller. tahr, chamois and to some extent fallows are free range as the fallows can jump the fences at will.
Helicopters are used to go into the mts for chamois and tahr or you can elect in some cases to climb and stalk.
I hunted with Glen dene station and was more than pleased and would recommend them because of the following the family is the BURDONS and Richard runs the show they have a HUGE estate and have estate aka high fence hunting or free range outside the fence hunting for everything stags, fallow, tahr chamois, goats and wild sheep. the view is to die for they own lake Wanaka and another and the mts inbetween. besides they have acess to virtually everything as the family has been there for generations and they are awesome nice people. I killed a 507 stag see my avatar, the #12 sci tahr, goat, wild sheep, etc. so enough said they got the animals and the land, etc and will treat you right.
shane quin is good too but he is on the north island thus no tahr and chamois. if you you go with Richard please ask for his guide dan or barry both excellent. as regards timing I went mid may then tahr and chamois rut and beautiful coats, stag time of year doesn't matter Richard has thousands literally in herds shoot whatever size you can afford! roar not that big of a deal but a tahr with a full mane is something to see. pm me if you need more info but that's the details of nz take your wife and sightsee too
here are my thoughts for you there are 2 islands north and south aukland is on the north island and it is very different than the south. If you want to hunt tahr and chamois you must go to the south island which is much more mountainous and beautiful!! ALL THE PEOPLE ARE VERY NICE AND FRIENDLY,
tahr and chamois only live in the moutains. Our versions of ranchs are what they call estates and some are very large. they raise the red deer and stags for meat to sell to Europe and velvet and antlers powder to sell to china so there are literally millions and also to sell to hunters. Hunting generally falls into 2 categories small independent type outfits that don't own any estates and hunt free range or pay the big estates for acess.
The animals aka the stags are priced by the inch they score, those inside the high fence of the estates are more expensive those outside the fence cheaper but smaller. tahr, chamois and to some extent fallows are free range as the fallows can jump the fences at will.
Helicopters are used to go into the mts for chamois and tahr or you can elect in some cases to climb and stalk.
I hunted with Glen dene station and was more than pleased and would recommend them because of the following the family is the BURDONS and Richard runs the show they have a HUGE estate and have estate aka high fence hunting or free range outside the fence hunting for everything stags, fallow, tahr chamois, goats and wild sheep. the view is to die for they own lake Wanaka and another and the mts inbetween. besides they have acess to virtually everything as the family has been there for generations and they are awesome nice people. I killed a 507 stag see my avatar, the #12 sci tahr, goat, wild sheep, etc. so enough said they got the animals and the land, etc and will treat you right.
shane quin is good too but he is on the north island thus no tahr and chamois. if you you go with Richard please ask for his guide dan or barry both excellent. as regards timing I went mid may then tahr and chamois rut and beautiful coats, stag time of year doesn't matter Richard has thousands literally in herds shoot whatever size you can afford! roar not that big of a deal but a tahr with a full mane is something to see. pm me if you need more info but that's the details of nz take your wife and sightsee too
