Sport - Hunting

There was a time in New Zealand's recent past, when every country town, had one or more helicopters based there involved with wild venison recovery to feed a growing export trade. As the wild deer population was reduced and deer farming became widespread, helicopter recovery operations slowly ceased in most locations. Fiordland and South Westland today remain the only areas with full-time venison recovery helicopters still flying. Professional photographer Olivia Page was given the opportunity to record WARO (wild animal recovery... read more

Dave Saxton has done more in one lifetime than most people could do in several. in a life filled with adventure, he has known triumph and tragedy. Drawn to the outdoor life from an early age he has hunted, fished and explored more of New Zealand than almost anyone else. He settled in Haast before the road went through, regarding it as the last frontier in New Zealand, a place where a man could fulfill his dreams. No single book could cover everything Sax has done in his lifetime so far, instead Dave Drangsholt who hunted with and ... read more

Author Graham May was never a deer culler, never a contract meat shooter and never part of the venison recovery industry. He is and has always been a true sport hunter, hunting for the love of the sport. Now retired, he looks back over a lifetime of hunting adventures.

This new book tells the amazing story of red deer in New Zealand since their introduction in the 1850s to provide sport for settlers. At first, some great trophies were taken, but before long deer had so expanded in numbers and range they were eating out the native forests and raiding farmland. This led to their being declared a pest, and to control measures that created a hunting subculture encompassing all levels of society. There were the deer cullers, employed by the government in a vain attempt at eradication, and from whom ar... read more

Lilybank Safari Lodge was a trail breaking business established to provide hunting opportunity for visiting hunters. Gary Joll (with his business partners) purchased Lilybank Station and the pastoral lease that went with it, with government approval, to operate a hunting business. Almost before the ink was dry some sections of the government had changed their mind and tried to stop Gary in his attempts to set up a tourist hunting business, which at its peak generated millions of dollars in overseas earning for New Zealand. As a pio... read more

Kim Swan's lifetime of possum hunting experience will benefit any person who ever wondered....What left their lemon devoid of rind but still on the tree, where the walnut crop went,what pooed on their picnic table, what scratched the dog's nose, what the kids had bailed up in the wood shed. If you like or love your home garden, your orchard, your woodlot, your stock, healthy forests, native trees, endangered bird life, export earnings...You should read Kim Swan's book and learn how to do something about the threat to all of these t... read more

Hunting Adventures is Greig Caigou's very readable and vicariously enjoyable collection of one man's back-country adventures in the New Zealand bush and high country.

This book on processing wild pigs and deer is written by Darran Meates, one of the country's leading butchers of game meat. Practical down-to-earth text and over 250 photographs show how to field dress, skin and butcher pigs and deer, caping techniques, food safety information for game hunters, and recipes for venison and wild pork. It also tells the inspirational story of The Game Butcher, Darran Meates, from leaving school at fifteen and taking up a butchery apprenticeship to running his own business and fronting a television hun... read more

For the past 14 years the author has been at the sharp end of recovery programmes for kiwi, kokako, kakapo, kaka and blue duck. As a result he has spent thousands of hours in the bush observing, capturing and monitoring some of New Zealand's most endangered icons.Kiwi Hunter is an unsanitised firsthand account of the battle to save New Zealand's most distinctive animal, the kiwi, now threatened with extinction. Sid frankly confronts the issues - trhe counter productive conservation politics, aerial 1080 poison operations, and some ... read more

Clive McKenney has a passion for pig hunting. 34 stories of pig hunting adventure based on the personal experiences of the author. Good hunts, great hunts and tragic hunts, all are the lot of this dedicated pig hunter. Superbly illustrated with colour photographs by the author and his partner Sheryl (a talented professional photographer). From the dense bush of Central North Island to the wide open spaces of the South Island, the author has been chasing pigs with a dedication and success that few can equal.

There's more to Reg's pig hunting than pigs, it's the dogs, the people and the events that come together, not always the way they should, that create the backdrop for this book. This is Reg Carr's fifth book.Reg Carr - pig hunter, raconteur and observer of life both human and porcine. This is Reg's fifth book, if you have read one before you know what to expect, if you haven't, prepare to enjoy, as Reg takes you the reader along on some of his many hunting trips. There's more to Reg's pig hunting than pigs, it's the dogs, the peopl... read more

Ted McLaughlin has led a full and adventurous life. This is his autobiography spanning nine years living on his own for long periods in the mountains of New Zealand's South Island. Travelling on horseback with pack horses and hunting deer on foot, all in the era before the advent of helicopters, Ted has had to survive a lot of close brushes with death which has made him very self reliant. It is completely true in every detail - it was a tough life which was not for the faint hearted!

Warning: Pig Huntingitis is very infectious, people have been known to catch it just by reading about it. If you own an old 4WD truck with a dog box on the back, a long pointed knife, a collection of motley looking dogs and when you are talking to your mates every second sentence has the word "pig" in it at least once, don't panic, you already have it. As for the rest of you, proceed with caution. Chris Fraser discovered pig hunting later in life. Already a successful hunter, the invitation to join a friend on a pig hunt started so... read more

Author of Fallow Deer Hunting in New Zealand and Pigs at my Doorstep, Bob Pittaway recalls some of the memorable hunts in the hills of New Zealand. A mainly North Island hunter Bob has ventured south to Stewart Island for Whitetail, the mountains of the South Island for Chamois and Tahr, as well as pursuing Red Fallow, Sambar and Sika deer in the north. The book covers forty years of a very active hunting career, with some first class trophy animals along the way. The book finishes with some advice to hunter's wives from Bob's wife Wendy.

Dave Drangsholt moved to the South Island of NZ in the 1960s to further his interest in deer hunting,he eventually became a deer culler with the Forest service.A deer culler in the 1960s was required to hunt in the bush and in the high alpine regions.He has since worked for Parks Victoria and DOC in NZ. With the knowledge gained over the years he recounts the lifestyle of "the good old days".

Following the sell-out success of the first edition of Spot X - Hunting New Zealand, we have added over 300 new hunting spots making this edition over 40% bigger! Illustrated with 1:50 000 & 1:250 000 topographic maps Information on over 1000 hunting spots species available Accommodation access, permits, restrictions Xpert hunting tips that all hunters will need to know when planning their next adventure.

Hunting is the practice of pursuing living animals (usually wildlife) for food, recreation, or trade. In present-day use, the term refers to lawful hunting.Hobby is an actvity carried out in one's spare time, for pleasure or relaxation. Put the two together and you have the most fun you can have with your pants on. Join the author on his hunting around New Zealand as he activly pursues his hobby- hunting for Red Deer, Fallow, Chamois, Tahr and the ultimate trophy - Wapiti

Paul Askin author of the very successful New Zealander Pig Hunter's Handbook, takes a more laid back stlye as he recounts some of the more memorable hunts from his many years of pig hunting.There is more to pig hunting than you might think! These are yarns about the pigs, people and dogs from hunts on both private and public land.    

The further adventures of Graham May. He takes the reader along on some of his more memorable trips. Altough retired and confessing to slowing down a little, Graham manages more hunting than many a fraction of his age. With the ability of a natural story teller and a bush poet this latest collection of yarns is sure to win even more fans than his first book. - Publishers advance information