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I'm going to NZ next March on a Red stag hunt. Not a big Stag hunter personally, spend most of my hunting time either in Africa, or here in the Southeastern USA on a small place me and my son hunt. With that said, I am looking forward to my NZ hunt, where I will be hunting highlands for early rut stags. Plan on taking a .375 Fl magnum double with a Schmidt & Bender scope as my primary rifle. I do have better bolt guns for this particular outing, but if you can't do it with a double what's the point?

The costs are in-line with African plains game if you are hunting "wild" stag, note- that I use the term wild loosely in this context. NZ does offer Stag hunting in a variety of venues, most of which equate to shooting animals either raised on farms or that hang out near farms for the increased forage opportunities. That type of Stag hunting has no interest to me personally, though I know several shooters that have taken tremendous trophies hunting NZ farmland.

We are staying at an excellent lodge, where the wife can relax and enjoy herself while I hunt.

As an aside, I'm taking my son, son-in-law & father-in-law to Argentina dove/duck hunting in three weeks, and have booked an Ibex hunt in Spain and a another 21 day Safari in Tanzania for 2012.

I just crossed over to the wrong side of 50, my wife swears that I'm the only man in this area that is hunting his way through his midlife crisis. Don't have a problem with that...none at all.

Luck to everyone hunting this season.

Flatswader sends...

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