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I asked a NZ resident friend and this is his recommendation:

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OK, your man in the US should contact Gerald Telford. GT is a good guy, very straight up, I've known him for a decade. He is President of the NZ Professional Hunting Guides. He has arguably the best free range stags in the country on a high country station down Wanaka way - very big and very pretty country that frankly knocks spots off the north island. He does some preserve work because it's expected but the free range is just that. Not sure what your guy understands but free range will mean no 40 point Christmas trees. You can't have both, but GT will be able to hook him up to solid 12 -14 point Otago-style stags that are natural. You get the odd one even bigger. info@flyfishhunt.co.nz is his email.

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Good to hear that sort of quality is possible on a free range hunt.

In the message it was also said, many landowners are no longer shooting open slather their herds of wild deer on the rough country at the "back of the farm". And managing the herds for quality stags.

Good also to hear.

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