by Katie White | Apr 7, 2022 | Editor's pick, Features, Hunting
Matt Butler shared his passion for outdoor adventure as a fly-fishing guide in Otago for six years before his work became another COVID casualty. “Once the borders closed, my work totally dried up, as it was wholly reliant on foreign tourists. So, during the first...
by Tony Orman | Feb 10, 2022 | Features, Hunting
A nibbie is an essential item for musterers, particularly in the South Island’s mountain country. Talk to high-country sheep musterers of the old days and high-country farmers today – whether they’re teenagers or in the autumn of their years – the nibbie was and still...
by Ben Hope | Dec 2, 2021 | Features, Hunting
Often when words get out around hunting circles that you shot a deer, the inevitable question is always asked: where did you get that deer? Anyone asking such a question has to be naive to believe a successful hunter is going to share the exact location. I remember an...
by Tony Orman | Oct 22, 2021 | Editor's pick, Features, Hunting
Decades ago, I headed to a new job in Hawke’s Bay. It chanced that a chap in the office was a keen hunter and we got chatting. So when Ralph offered to take me out hunting, I jumped at the chance. He took his camera while I took the rifle. We hunted some ferny,...
by Lisa Potter | Sep 23, 2021 | Editor's pick, Features, Fishing, Hunting
While the 28-year-old has worked hard to become a full-time artist, her profile got an enormous boost from a recent illustration she did in support of farmers. Her ‘No Farmers. No Food. No Future’ design proved an immediate hit and perfectly captured the sentiment...
by Tony Orman | Aug 24, 2021 | Editor's pick, Features, Hunting
Many years ago – somewhere in the early 1960s from memory – the late John Henderson and I climbed up onto the tops of the Tararua Range behind Ōtaki to Kime Hut. It was evening when we arrived and that night, the weather turned to the south. The southerly lashed the...
