Are you the kind of hunter that conditions your gear several months before the big hunt? Or are you the kind whose doing the other way around? If you're anything like me, the day after you plan the hunt, you start preparing for the trip. I spend a whole lot of time preparing for the big hunt season, but when the day finally comes, it's almost a little depressing for me. Have you ever experienced this in your entire hunting journey? If not, you missed a lot o fun. Below are just some tips while you are still there, preparing this months beforehand to make your hunting activity, a blast.
Let' talk about my trip to New Zealand with Greg. I was not aware that my father-in-law had booked me a trip at a hunting convention. I have no idea about the outfitter of the hunt, the location, animals to hunt, the terrain, the type of hunting and all else that I should know.
The first thing that I did immediately was search the outfitter's website. I studied their site. I learned about the location of the hunt, the animals to hunt, the weather, the terrain, and a lot more. I was already pondering what animal I'd like to hunt this time. Their site also posted the beautiful sceneries- beautiful pictures of mountain summits and the massive red stags with the crowned antlers. By just looking at it, I can almost smell the fresh mountain air. And because I wasn't satisfied with what I learned yet, I bought a book about some hunter experience in New Zealand to relive another hunter's experience. Some videos are available on the internet. I've seen one video about New Zealand hunters and their great quest last season. It's fascinating to think how much more real hunt becomes when you see the real undertakings of these hunters and see how they win the game. You can gather ideas from their experiences to better hunting. This hunt preparation works best.
Next, I search over the internet what I need to know about New Zealand. I wanted to learn more about its geography, specifically, the location for the big hunt. I have seen what kind of animals are there to hunt and some helpful tips to hunt them. I have also discovered that it is composed of two islands- the South and the North. Its terrain is extremely different and its type of hunting too. It was pretty exciting to know that we will hunt on the Southern island. I was thinking that it was more exciting and fun there.
The next day, I talked to some of my friends that had hunted for stag or had been to New Zealand. These people have hunted for chamois, stag and tahr. For me, it is always best to seek advice and learn from them. They're experts because they've hunt there. I have learned from them that hunts in New Zealand are fenced rather than free range. Chamois and tahr for example, are hunt with helicopters and stags are classified by bronze, silver or gold medal depending mainly on the size and if they were hunt free range of fenced. I don't like the idea of hunting the chamois using a helicopter, I want to hunt that chamois with the power of my two legs. And it's more fun to take them from free range.
My next plan was to contact now the outfitter of the hunting expedition. I asked information about the price, hunting gears list, the exact hunting location, the weather or the physical condition of the place. Internet is very useful in giving a whole bunch of tips and ideas about the best gears you can have. I went to opticsplanet.com and began searching for best gears. I found Trijicon Accupoint Scope. Any hunter nowadays mount rifle scopes on their hunting weapons. It has been tested that with the aid of scopes, shooting is more accurate than ever. Trijicon Accupoint Scope is any-light shooting, with high transitional speed and pinpoint accuracy. With advanced fiber-optic/tritium aiming-point illumination. What does this mean to us? This riflescope provides hunters optimum aiming-point illumination and ideal reticle/target contrast. It's design for more shooting accuracy.I'm sure ou know how Google Maps work? Once I had the location, I searched it using this amazing sof tware from Google. With this, you can literally scout for place from your computer- check the surroundings, the cruise of the roads, the top of the hills, see all the nooks and crannies that hide critters. You can also print this to mark you favorite spots. Just don't forget they are a whole lot bigger in real life.
It is a must to prepare and pull that gear into test several months before that big hunt starts. Start whittling your gear down as the hunt comes near. I also start making trips to the range, to take the dust off my old rifle and make sure that once in a life time, shot counts.
As the hunting season came near, the more I became excited, and dreamed of big stags and shaggy tahr. It was tough to sleep at all, you know the feeling of too much excitement before the big day event. I did my homework- went through a lot of research, had gone over my gear a couple of times, practice my rifle skills and checked on my fitness to hunting. And all that was left was to relax and let the guide do the work.
Like what I said above, for me, the hunting starts long before the hunting trip starts, and I love doing every moment of it.
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