CHOOSE :- FREE RANGE, FAIR CHASE, PRIVATE PROPERTY
Rifle hunt the best areas on the slopes of Mt Ruapehu with the expert help from your hunting guide. We have a range for you to sight in your rifle or you may wish to loan a rifle for your hunt. Rifle hunting territory ranges over rolling hills through native forest clearings or hunt close up within the Manuka scrub lands.
Bow hunters are welcome on Lahar Farm. Guides will maximise your opportunities by using our tree and platform stands in the “Black Forest Estate” or you are welcome and encouraged to spot and stalk the clearings, there is a daily trespass fee which is wavered if a trophy deer is shot.
A Green hunt is for those who want the thrill of stalking without the kill. You may be guided onto the roaring stag for those once in a life time photographs. Advisable to bring your own cameras or video equipment but you are welcome to use ours and we will create a CD copy for you. Guides will use our “Black Forest Estate” and make full use of the bow stands. Photograph the magnificent backdrop of Mt Ruapehu with your stag out in front, available all year.
New Zealand DEER HUNTING seasons. Rifle and bow hunters may hunt deer all year in New Zealand, there are NO seasons. The exciting time for hunting is the Roar or Bugle. Book to trophy hunt deer in the peak time of the rutting season, from late March to mid May, otherwise trophy hunting is available from March to September. Note * all booking deposits for the “roar” are non refundable, but transferable once, with three months notice of change to a booking for the same period in the next year.
Tahr and Chamois: No season, but best time for the rut and winter skins is May to AugustWild fowl season: Begins on the first weekend in May, prime time is the sort after opening morning. Season then lasts for the next four months.
Other species: No season for :- Arapawa ram, feral goats, boar, rabbits, hares, opossum.