Lake Hawea Hunting Safaris
Address:
New Zealand
Otago
116 Hawea Back Rd, Hawea Flat 9382
Coordinates:
Latitude: -44.654348
Longitude: 169.300271
Administrator
Contact:
+64 3 443 7282
+64 27 3490 393
Communication language
English
chris@hawea-hunting.co.nz
Web-site
New Zealand Tahr Hunting
Tahr hunting in New Zealand is one of the most popular guided hunting trips in the South Island. Lake Hawea Hunting Safaris offers wilderness tahr hunting safaris and private land tahr hunting safaris.
Ask a New Zealand hunter to sum up New Zealand hunting with one animal and they'll say "bull tahr hunting". New Zealand has the only free-ranging herd of Himalayan tahr outside of the the Himalayas. There is just no way to describe the sight of a bull tahr until you glass one through the binoculars for the first time.
Bull Tahr Hunting - A Stand Out Trophy Animal
Tahr hunting is all about spotting that trophy animal, often when pointing out animals to hunters they'll see a nanny tahr (female), a second nanny, a third nanny, a whole group of nannies, but wait what's that massive hairy thing in the middle.... thats 'the bull tahr'. Bull tahr look and weigh up to three times the size of a nanny tahr, there is no more awesome a sight than a skylined bull tahr, with his muscular front shoulders and chest standing strong with his lion like mane rippling with the wind. What the tahr lack in horn length to other mountain dwelling species they more than make up for with their cape.
When tahr hunting for a trophy animal we are looking for an animal with horns approximately 12 inches in length, an impressive body size and a beautiful cape. Tahr hunting epitomises New Zealand hunting.
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