Adam in NZ pictorial (adding pics daily)

[adam]

Last afternoon I put in a great stalk for this guy, with the velvet still holding on to his tops he grazed onto a small clearing that I had been watching for the last 3 days, I got to 20 meters of him and took a hard angling away shot. He travelled 60 meters and went down cold. A young 6x6 12point free range bush head.
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Now the real hard bit, getting the animal out to fully utilize it.
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Nacker'd to the max, but worth pushing on.
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[adam]

Graham Cash and Matt Willis glassing some some reds in the distance
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A young boar and some wild sheep, they certainly get along even with the pig eating one of there dead.
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The boar laid down and I made my way around the mountain top to get into position , you can see me top left at full draw.
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A black stump broadhead from the diamond marquis took the boar full penatration from last rib to the front of the chest, he never made 30 meters
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[adam]

Matt showed me the best way to carry an animal with short legs out like boars and I put it to practise.
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[Bowfly]

Very Cool Adam! GREAT STAG!.
So thats where the saying Piggy Back comes from :D
Glad you had a great trip. Ive been looking forward to the report.
Rod

[Ben Kleinig]

Glad you had a great time; your pictures are marvellous as per usual!

[Clinglish]

looks like you had an awesome time Adam, have you gotten down off of cloud nine yet.

[adam]

Thanks guys, was a great trip for sure. Same spoiling the artical in the mag I'll save the other picture of the trip for it then once the story is published Ill post away the other photos. i took 600 to 700 photos so heaps to go around.

Still on the cloud Clint, not just from the hunting but the people I met over there.

Adam

[Jezza]

Great pics Adam and wat a spectacular view

[rudy]

Good to see you had a safe and sucsesful trip Adam. Great photos once again.
How hard did you find the hunting over there?

Dowse

[cooke]

howd cashy go with his new recurve??

[adam]

The hunting was very hard for the reds due to there habit at this time of year, and mountain boars never come easy, but thats half the fun hey.

Cashy never got out with his recurve, the terrian was more suited to compound hunting.

[kal_mike]

Good to see you got into the New Zealand spirit with the carry out, its not something I've seen much of in Australia. That stag is a good head for a bush stag.

[rory]

Great country for sure, a must hunt!

Well done on the red, and the carry out!!! LOL :)

[Mozza]

well done on the red Adam:)
I can't imagine how hard that thing would have been to carry out:o
I'm sure you will savour every mouthfull of the meat;)

[spiderbait24]

well domne adam, hes a great stag.

goodin pig too.

[macka]

Bloody unreal Adam, and thats a bloody good effort carrying that red out. I have shot a couple red doe's with the gun of late and i couldn't imagine how hard it would be to carry a stag! Looks like the trip was well worth it with memories to last a lifetime.

Macka

[Clemo]

Seen kiwi doggers carrying boars like that, they use their dog collars to tie the legs then carry them like a back pack.
Never seen it done with a red stag. :P

[Friar Tuck]

Welcome to the Kiwi hunt Adam - well done and a top bush head. Carrying the deer out like that is not uncommon in NZ at all, although the resting part was a little unusual. Can't say I've used one as a pillow before :P

[baconbuster007]

top hunt adam, beautiful scenery over ther hey. will have con the missus into coming over there for a "holiday".

[Bowdy]

A "BIG CONGRATS" Adam ,
That's a top effort on a quailty bow shot "Free Range" Red, WELL DONE!!!
Looking forward to more pics and the story.
Grant.