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Art, you and your team are the "MEN"!!!

Seven wapiti on opening day, Wow!

Congratulations. And good eating, especially that funny four antlered eight legged elk in the back of the ute!

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Looks great. Where were y'all?

Congratulations to your wife!

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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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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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This is really good information John. Thank you very much for your help. As I mentioned in the PM, much rather have the free range than fenced..again, not criticizing..each to their own..

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Remember NZ is also a good destination for sika deer in the North Island and Tahr and Chamois in the South Island.

Gryphon wrote a story of his hunt for tahr on NE. Have a look at it.

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I got an email back from your friend

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Friend of a friend. I do not know the outfitter at all.

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Ripp,
I hear the Aoudad hunting in the Palo Duro Canyon are is good and very free-range.

After taking my cow last week, we saw some Aoudad with big horns while chasing axis/chital does ( they won): we came across a coyote hunting the same game I was - that is a no-no and the ranch manager is glad I shot it.

I took my daughter elk hunting in Montana for her college graduation years ago. It was too warm and the bulls were mostly still up high, but she did take a nice mule deer buck at 400 yards with her Weatherby 7mm WM. Her guide was amazed and trotted half a mile to tell me, but I just told him that all Texas gals can shoot like that. And all Texas dads can lie like that.

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