Mate it's so awesome to see what a solid game animal management plan can do for original bloodlines. It would be the dream to run into one of those wild stags on public land!! Keep up the awesome work!

@lakehaweahuntingsafaris7978

11 ай бұрын

Hi Ben, thanks for your kind words - we have restored the herd to their former glory in one corner of their historic range, if the recreational hunters of New Zealand wish to expand on our achievements it is up to them to persuade the relevant Government departments and statutory bodies to do so. We have laid the founding block.

@bendb_wildaboutnz

11 ай бұрын

@@lakehaweahuntingsafaris7978 100% agree, really hope it happens over the coming years! Keep living the dream in your slice of paradise!

Since 2009 Lake Hawea Hunting Safaris has been re-connecting hunters with the once world-famous Otago red deer herd. Our game management program, across large tracts of private land (86,000 acres) has nurtured these unique red deer back to a sustainable hunting resource; now producing traditional Otago stag trophies and a traditional hunting experience not seen since the halcyon days of the 1930’s. The world is now being re-introduced to these classical, traditional, eye pleasing stags, with their sweeping back tines and unrivaled style. This is a free-range hunting experience that is impossible to describe without having experienced it for yourself. Apologies for background noise with the audio - I'll use a microphone next season.