Steve7mm08
Well-Known Member
Midweek after Labour weekend Kiwigreg and I headed south with a number of things to do. First plan was a couple of days looking for Tahr, next was a long range shoot with the reprobates from the deep south and thirdly the pickup of the new Frewza which Crazyman kindly picked up.
Yawn was supposed to come on this trip but he pointed out that he had tickets for the opening session of Michael Jacksons new movie, seeing as he had his MJ costume ready he flagged the Tahr hunt. :
First day on the hill was an early start, walking further up the creek to a suitable spot for glassing. I spotted three tahr relatively high up further up the valley so off we went. When underneath them we climbed up a spur to a tussocky knoll where we could have a better look.
Another group of nannies were seen but climbed high into the bluff and out of sight, a few younger bulls were mincing around on a near vertical face. I then spotted what I thought was a decent bull lying up in some scrub between two bluffs.
After an eternity he stood up for a stretch and copped a 300gn SMK for his troubles. The range was 491yds with zero wind. At the shot he jumped out of his bed and took a leap downhill out of site. I was feeling very confident with the shot so we waited 20 mins and headed up for a gander.
Where the shot was taken from, Bull was bedded up in the bluffs mid left of pic
Kiwigreg prepping himself for a climb up to the bull
After a bit of mucking around we got into the spot and I quickly found the bull lying dead about 25 metres below his bed. I was disappointed to see he had 10 1/4" horns, I would have sworn he was over 11" but thems the breaks.
The young bull, first Tahr for the 338 EDGE
338 Edge
Yawn was supposed to come on this trip but he pointed out that he had tickets for the opening session of Michael Jacksons new movie, seeing as he had his MJ costume ready he flagged the Tahr hunt. :
First day on the hill was an early start, walking further up the creek to a suitable spot for glassing. I spotted three tahr relatively high up further up the valley so off we went. When underneath them we climbed up a spur to a tussocky knoll where we could have a better look.
Another group of nannies were seen but climbed high into the bluff and out of sight, a few younger bulls were mincing around on a near vertical face. I then spotted what I thought was a decent bull lying up in some scrub between two bluffs.
After an eternity he stood up for a stretch and copped a 300gn SMK for his troubles. The range was 491yds with zero wind. At the shot he jumped out of his bed and took a leap downhill out of site. I was feeling very confident with the shot so we waited 20 mins and headed up for a gander.
Where the shot was taken from, Bull was bedded up in the bluffs mid left of pic
Kiwigreg prepping himself for a climb up to the bull
After a bit of mucking around we got into the spot and I quickly found the bull lying dead about 25 metres below his bed. I was disappointed to see he had 10 1/4" horns, I would have sworn he was over 11" but thems the breaks.
The young bull, first Tahr for the 338 EDGE
338 Edge
