by Tony Orman | Apr 16, 2021 | Features, Hunting
Deaths of hunters during the popular autumn hunting period may, on analysis, reveal more than just a hunter’s misjudgement and wrong identification of a movement in the bush. It is this aiming and firing at ‘a movement in the bush’ that gives a strong clue to the...
by Ben Hope | Mar 10, 2021 | Editor's pick, Features, Hunting
It was just going to be an evening hunt, but it inadvertently ended up being an overnight trip. It so happened just a few years ago on an overcast autumn evening, I was headed up into the hills on a high-country station to photograph a stag. My Labrador and I...
by Tony Orman | Dec 15, 2020 | Editor's pick, Features, Hunting
Good Friday 2016 will be a day Southland high country station workers Ryan Carr and Dan Keys will never forget. On a pig hunting trip, the duo got two boars – 270 and 348lbs. The second wild boar was of a size that is hard to imagine. After gutting, the animal weighed...
by Tony Orman | Oct 22, 2020 | Editor's pick, Features, Hunting
One evening a couple of years ago, Lloyd and I were hunting some South Island backcountry that featured some rocky outcrops – an ideal habitat for native falcon. As it was nesting season, it was not long before we were startled by the whoosh of a swooping falcon...
by F&O NEWS DESK | Oct 22, 2020 | Editor's pick, Features, Fishing, Hunting
Beginners luck seemed to work for Dwayne Sweeney and his crew when they caught a record marlin in April 2018. But it isn’t Sweeney’s beginners’ luck that we’re talking about here; rather, it’s of the two men who accompanied him on his boat on that beautiful day...
by Ben Hope | Sep 7, 2020 | Features, Hunting
Hunters usually have a favourite hunting spot and they like to look after it, particularly the deer that live there. A hunter can plan their own game management by way of selectively taking a deer relative to the time of the year. August and September see a reversal...
