I'll get this party started.
Back in '07 I had planned on hunting New Zealand but my passport was greatly delayed due to CBP requiring everybody to have a passport for entering Mexico. This created an enormous backlog and by the time I recieved it the ticket prices had doubled.
I then set aside the idea because I wanted to hunt as much as possible with my teenage kids while I still had them at home.
Now they are gone and I have an empty nest. So I pulled the trigger and bought tickets for myself and a friend. At $982 after all taxes, LAX to Christchurch, I think that was a great deal.
Our plan is to hunt for tahr and chamois in the alps and time permitting, waterfowl. We will be hunting DIY on public land (DOC) backpacking up to the tahr (no helicopters) and staying until we harvest or time runs out (2weeks)
We will be hunting May 13-28 but that will be like November in the Canadian Rockies. We will be using vintage 1970's jansports because they can carry it all and then some. A couple of weeks ago I was in a mountaineering store and I saw this new "old" pack for sale, the D2 "Retro" back by popular demand.
http://www.monstermuleys.info/photos/user_photos/9951img_0091.jpg
Back in '07 I had planned on hunting New Zealand but my passport was greatly delayed due to CBP requiring everybody to have a passport for entering Mexico. This created an enormous backlog and by the time I recieved it the ticket prices had doubled.
I then set aside the idea because I wanted to hunt as much as possible with my teenage kids while I still had them at home.
Now they are gone and I have an empty nest. So I pulled the trigger and bought tickets for myself and a friend. At $982 after all taxes, LAX to Christchurch, I think that was a great deal.
Our plan is to hunt for tahr and chamois in the alps and time permitting, waterfowl. We will be hunting DIY on public land (DOC) backpacking up to the tahr (no helicopters) and staying until we harvest or time runs out (2weeks)
We will be hunting May 13-28 but that will be like November in the Canadian Rockies. We will be using vintage 1970's jansports because they can carry it all and then some. A couple of weeks ago I was in a mountaineering store and I saw this new "old" pack for sale, the D2 "Retro" back by popular demand.
http://www.monstermuleys.info/photos/user_photos/9951img_0091.jpg