THE 'BEST' OF NEW ZEALAND HUNTING 

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New Zealand Fair Chase Estate Hunts

• In the North Island clients hunt with Glenn Martin. In addition to red stag, fallow buck, arapawa ram, goat, and wapiti he can offer sika stag.

• In the South Island they hunt with Brendan Matthews. In addition to red stag, fallow buck, arapawa ram, goat, and wapiti he can offer bull tahr and chamois buck.

It is membership on all relevant trophy hunting organisations, strong personalities, business longevity, huge parks rather than small pens, high quality guides, trophy genetic stock, a mixture of deer habitat, and above all else, an adherence to the ‘five freedoms’ of wild game management. These freedoms encompass shelter, food, water, habitat, and above all, the freedom to express themselves. This monster buck is an example of what is on offer.

Best of New Zealand Hunting offers all of these ingredients to their clients.

Our guides produce record book SCI trophies in several attractive and challenging regions. The quality of the genetic stock is well recognised, and these bloodlines have created particularly heavy red stag trophies. All our Estate stalks take place on foot.

Most of our trophy animals are born and raised within the parks, not released as old animals, so are truly wild game. As well as trophy red stags and elk this includes fallow deer, feral goats and pigs, wild rams, chamois , bull tahr, and numerous non- trophy red deer.

We also provide quality free range hunts for all species. Our Estates are a mixture of steep hills, native grasslands, valleys, forest, and mountain streams. All are ideal big game country with red stag perhaps the best known of the trophy animals stalked within our large game estates.

Each of our guides, organises the game management within individual estates, plans the hunts, and looks after guiding requirements. These rams were taken on the second morning of a four day hunt.

The accommodation is as good as your wallet will allow. It is recommended that a hunter allow between 3 and 5 days if stalking inside the estate. The daily rate covers guide, transport, food, skinning and accommodation. While an animal can be guaranteed, there is no guarantee it will be the biggest in the estate. Some trophy animals survive a whole season, and others survive years without even being seen. That’s hunting.

Contact Greg: fairchase@paradise.net.nz