Wapiti Hunting In New Zealand, by Greg Duley

[NZ Longranger]

Ballito,
Depends on whether you're flying in and planning on mainly working from the valley floor or not. A Sendero setup will work fine here, but is a little cumbersome and heavy if you're going to do some serious bluff work. We always take a heavy rifle for the long shots from lower down, but always have a light rifle like the Fatso along as well for climbing high and retrieving. Factory rifle wise a Tikka T3 in 7mm Mag or a Rem Titanium also in 7mm Mag or 7mm SAUM shooitng 160 AB's accurately would be my choice for the light rifle, but there are plenty of others.
What rifles do you have access to?
Greg

[Ballito]

Jeremy says you missed a few. Maybe you should use a :240 Gibbs!

[NZ Longranger]

Not sure what you mean?
Didn't miss any, 2 one shot kills at 847 and 775 yards.
He had a few hiccups on his tahr hunt a few weeks ago, but I wasn't there so can't comment.