NitroX
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| 22/05/06 12:49 PM |
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Re: Adventures in Oceania
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Several hours later we were bumping our way up a narrow canyon in the Rangitata River area, glassing for tahr.
"bumping around" - sounds like a vehicle to me ???
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The only rub was some domestic sheep shared the slide.
Gryph, ask on the Kiwi forum but sheep may well be on private sheep stations well up the mountains. If they say different .... ?
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We hiked around the mountain so we could climb unseen in the shelter of a big hogback. It was steep enough, but the deep snow made it tough.
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Now the mountain ascended in a series of benches, and much of the snow had been blown away.
As for pictures some with snow, ome without:
The photo with Brittany's tahr is on a shale slope and no snow.
The photo with Craig's tahr has tussocks and small clumps of snow.
A photo of them spotting the mountains has lots of snow.
Interestingly in the photos the last shows Brittany resting her knees on a parka. The photo of her trophy shows her squatting so her pants do not come in contact with the shale. I would guess the photo with the spotting scope is a staged photo for the article. Yes sometimes writers do "manufacture" scenes for photographing for magazine articles. Why? Because if you take them while hunting, you scare everything away!
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Chris wedged a pack against the base of a bush helped her steady the rifle over it. The slope was so steep that I crawled below her and braced myself, letting her put her feet against me to keep from sliding down the hill.
Sounds like she shot from a sitting position to me ???
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I don't know the circumstances of hunt and it may well be as suggested, or it may not be. It would be a little rough if it was a fair chase hunt to be suggesting the sort of things being suggested.
Unfortunately IMO the NZ hunting scene is tainted with that sort of activity and perhaps no SCI scored animals should be able to be listed from NZ UNTIL they clean up their act. Same as SCI did for lions from South Africa.
No doubt that statement will make me popular with Kiwi outfitters.