Epic 6 Day West Coast Chamois and Tahr Hunt | Catch n Cook

[@craighammond6645]

Not many people walk in to that hut, and certainly not in 1 day. Your a machine. The bird is a rock wren

[@NZWildAdventures]

Thanks mate! Certainly was a hard walk 😂 but an awesome spot. I'll look a rock wrens up, cheers 😁

[@ryansonghurst4883]

Ive walked there in a day before, probably took me more like 15hrs though!.... was originally just going to Nolans but when a couple of rats came scurrying out when i opened the door I opted to keep going! haha

[@tane6394]

What’s the name of this hut?

[@craighammond6645]

@@tane6394 smyth hut

[@tane6394]

@@craighammond6645 thanks for that mate

[@ChasingaPlate]

What a mission Tasman. As if it wasn’t impressive enough and then you bust out the sausage maker and smoker! Really incredible. Nice one.

[@NZWildAdventures]

Thanks mate! Haha glad you enjoyed the vid, those saussies were niiiice 😁. Cheers for watching

[@2hands_and_a_brain917]

That stock is taking some punishment now Tasman, but its getting some character! Thanks for taking us along, the imagery is always amazing, nice sharp pictures and no macho stuff bs so many other videos out there, just good candid material. One of the things I like most about your reels are no foul language and derogatory comments about the prey you hunt. I respect you for that, and you always remove the carcasses from the waterways. I recommend this site to many people who want to know what ethical hunting looks like.

[@NZWildAdventures]

Yeah hahaha she's taken a beating for sure 😂 thanks for the feedback Stu, really appreciate it 😊

[@deebee5214]

Another excellent vid Tasman! You should consider writing a Hunting Cookery book given your array of "recipes" lol. And for a while I was thinking "What.....no Mincer??" but then it appeared. Cheers Man.

[@NZWildAdventures]

Hahaha that would be hilarious 😂 not a whole lot of variety in the recipes just yet though 😂. Thanks for watching 😁

[@craighammond6645]

Your a hard case lol, carrying in the mincer and the ingenious smoker. Your a real character, keep it up

[@NZWildAdventures]

Haha cheers mate appreciate it 😆

[@antoninosolano7667]

Struth mate you are a champion you take life by the horns and you have an awesome experience good on you 😂

[@NZWildAdventures]

Thanks bro 😁

[@jahhman5986]

I’m addicted bro thank u

[@MyFamilyGathering]

Tas Those snags look so delicious 🤪. Bet they taste fantastic.🤩😝. What a venture. Fantastic. Loved this like all the others.👏What a trip👌

[@NZWildAdventures]

They were so succulent 😋 thanks for watching glad you enjoyed it!

[@brooketamihana7204]

bro that was so awesome to watch!! thank you for sharing!

[@Kinleith621]

I have met some hard case good bastards in my many years bush bashing……you are one of those. 👍👍 as for making snags in the scrub..legend. 😎

[@NZWildAdventures]

Hahaha cheers mate 😂 they were so succulent 🤤

[@Australian.Hunting.Backcountry]

I really appreciate how you put your vids together and how much effort you go to on these trips.

[@NZWildAdventures]

Thank you! Really appreciate your comment 😊

[@cameronmaclachlan1459]

Thanks for the videos man. You are livin the dream hardcore. Super inspired everytime i watch u.

[@NZWildAdventures]

Wow thanks mate, glad you're enjoying em!

[@ianwilkinson3425]

Hinu for days on that doe. She was phaaat. The sossys looked dam good Tas. Awesome hunt bro. Well earned 👏🏽 👉🏽💥🐐

[@NZWildAdventures]

So Phat 😆 they were juicy! Cheers mate, thanks for watching 😁

[@Max-lf4br]

my god mate, the views are absolutely breathtaking and you've done an absolutely stunning job portraying the wilderness and the hunt with this video.

[@NZWildAdventures]

Thanks bro! Beautiful spot in there, glad that came across in the vid, really appreciate your comment 😁

[@tonychilton4321]

Well done Tasmin, you certainly bring a real twist to your remote drips with your no. 8 wire inventions and cooking techniques. Your not shy of putting in the hard yards, which is a great discipline when your hiking and hunting alone. Great vid

[@NZWildAdventures]

Hahaha thanks Tony! Certainly like to keep the trips low cost 😂 really appreciate it 😁

[@vaughantutty2227]

Talk about compulsive viewing, thanks again for another great video

[@NZWildAdventures]

Hahaha thanks for watching 😁

[@briargoatkilla]

You're gonna have a million subscribers one day.

[@NZWildAdventures]

Thanks mate 😆

[@hukfin1774]

Awsome once again Tasman keep them coming real enjoyable and the word real is because that is what you show us☝☝☝

[@NZWildAdventures]

Thank you! Glad you're enjoying the vids 😁

[@kiwigecko1]

Fantastic.!!!!!!!~

[@StingrayBay]

Another awesome adventure, so beautiful, your camera work is getting better and better👍🥰

[@NZWildAdventures]

Thanks Dad 😁

[@waikarimoana]

Awesome effort and great outing, very nice video and footage, enjoy life while you can and thumbs up for a great show,, Tony

[@NZWildAdventures]

Thanks Tony! Glad you enjoyed it, cheers mate 😁

[@darryncosgrave9117]

Nice, my partner and I went up the Wanganui Mach 2024, what a heinous walk, the track has washed away substantially since your vid. You are amazing the hours you walked with the weight you carry, much respect to you!!

[@NZWildAdventures]

It's a pretty hard trail aye 😆, sounds worse now 😅. Cheers mate! Pretty spot up there makes is all worth it 😁

[@jeffh676]

Brilliant watch. Thanks for all the effort you put in. We live in a wonderful place.

[@NZWildAdventures]

Thanks mate! We sure do 😊

[@KiwiKaimoana]

Awesome, a flying fox then a hot pool, pool must have been awesome

[@NZWildAdventures]

Hot pools were soo good 😁

[@summerdenize]

Yass looking forward to the new vid 😁

[@robw1364]

Amazing place so beautiful loved the colour of Water

[@Kiwisallsortsadventures]

Epic. Mate that was along walk in especially in a day

[@pauldensem3643]

Legendary effort Tasman. You are like a chamois yourself with all that rock hopping... man that looks like hard work. Certainly glad to see you took the mincer and the smoker looks awesome!

[@NZWildAdventures]

Thanks Paul 😂, it was pretty hard haha, and that mincer is pretty much an essential bit of kit for anything longer than a day trip 😂 cheers for watching 😁

[@ascend9327]

Awesome video brother, love the whole thing, really inspiring, well done

[@NZWildAdventures]

Thanks so much bro, glad you enjoyed 😁

[@johntumai827]

Excellent video, great footage! What an adventure!

[@leonardvirtue5753]

Nice 😊 🤠👌👌🤙💯🎣👍.. beautiful!!!!!🤩👍🤙

[@StefanHaworthNZ]

Cracks me up the gear you haul in. Good on ya.

[@NZWildAdventures]

Cheers mate 😂

[@Jim_Lewis_Venni_Vendetta]

Never fail to impress Tasman, haha.

[@beachhermit7171]

That is some seriously beautiful country mate!
Almost as good as Tassie! 😜
Thanks for another great vid!

[@NZWildAdventures]

Super pretty aye! Would love to visit Tassie one day, looks awesome over there! Thanks for watching 😁

[@magasiva6963]

Another awesome mission, cheers Tas

[@TheBighorn1]

Great video once again. The mincer tho... Omg

[@rawilson6407]

you go on some wicked adventures bro and the whipping up a batch of sausages mid trip 💯👌🏽 you the man bro thanks for sharing 🤙🏽🤙🏽

[@NZWildAdventures]

Cheers bro, glad you enjoyed! Thanks for watching 😁

[@LHTWH]

Epic hunt. Some rough country. Might be too much for me. Keep the vids coming please.

[@NZWildAdventures]

Thanks! Was a big trip for sure 😅 plenty more to come!

[@anthonymeco]

Awesome!.. Spotted you scootering from southshore last weekend 👍.. Trademark yellow bush shirt proved positive identification 😅

[@NZWildAdventures]

Thanks! Hahaha just took the new scooter for a quick spin, that's funny 😂

[@MyFamilyGathering]

Goodness me. Seriously. Unbelievable. But I loved the content and the sheer audacity of your hunt. 👊

[@NZWildAdventures]

Thank you! 😆

[@Marius_vanderLubbe]

Excellent vid.

[@rumpyNZ]

Another epic mission as always Tasman, love seeing the inspirational cook ups you do, I'm sure you could carry a lot less if you didn't eat so much though. 😂

[@NZWildAdventures]

Thanks mate 😂 absolutely could cut down a lot, but where's the fun in that 😂😅

[@nzmeateater]

Cool vid Tas, get a pair of puttys to stop the rocks going in your boots. That place has had a hammering from the 1080 poison over the years, so may have something to do with low numbers, for the deer anyway.Thanks for sharing the vid👍

[@NZWildAdventures]

Thanks Fred! I've actually got gators, but wee puttys would be great on occasion 😂. I find the gators are way too warm when you're making tracks. Interesting point re 1080, i wonder If that is the reason 🤔. Thanks for watching!

[@nzmeateater]

@@NZWildAdventures yea the wet suit puttys I use are good, stretchy,
I dont think Tahr eat the poison, doc tried that years ago with no success, not sure about Chamois? Bit of the reason I never did much in there, not many animals,but cool to see the top hut in your vid aye., yr fit as mate👍 oh to be young again lol.

[@NZWildAdventures]

Mm good idea, I'll look out for an old wetsuit 😋. Yeah not sure about chamois aye, though I wonder if the lack of deer was a geography thing rather than a poison thing, no idea though 😅.
I actually get away with so much not-training just due to youth 😂 thanks Fred

[@nzmeateater]

@@NZWildAdventures You can buy the puttys I use, made from same material as wet suit, The Waitaha, Wanganui, Whataroa and a few other valleys been hammered by poison and they all low deer numbers, takes a few years for numbers to get back up,. But I think there still the odd pocket here and there where the numbers are good. Yea Great fittness when were young,,Im 54 now, body has a few more niggly pains that come easily and take longer to go away ,,sore Back , knees, hips, ,,,all from doing what we love ha!😁

[@pauldavies4870]

Wow, the edge of that track, above the river, on the way in looked a bit dodgy. But this is NZ Wild Adventures, so nothing less is expected. That whole walk, every day, had awesome and epic scenery. You could easily have made a three hour movie! I found myself wanting to do that walk, and visit that hut, but then 25km, 13hrs and if the master that is Tasman felt tired, well, the helicopter seemed like a nice alternative. It made me smile when you decided to point without speaking, now that’s real exhaustion evidence. The cliff waterfalls were running hot. Had there been recent rain? Some of day 3 looked disgusting, esp that steep gorge stuff, but oh the reward to be on the top with no wind and peace and quiet. Great lunch spots, though to be honest, around every corner looked like it was a good lunch spot, and nice MacGyver work on the “backpack”. And more than the walk in, that narrow gorge back to the hut looked very dodgy, but the usual dodgy I guess, ie “fall and die slowly”. It always looks like you cook for 10. But then those sausages looked amazing, so every one of them was needed! And you were lucky to have a hut kea. I can watch those birds for hours - though with the kea, the eye and that leg, maybe you were a deformed animal area. Did the water taste ok? 😊

[@NZWildAdventures]

Hahaha that cliff was potentially one of the more dodgy spots this trip 😂.
It was so pretty aye! Was slightly concerned the vid would be too long, but seems to be well received so far.
Haha well after 4 months of work and little hunting, the old Tasman bod was feeling it every step of the way 😂 a heli in there would be fantastic though, such a cool spot.
I think there was rain a couple days before I arrived, the waterfalls had gone down a lot by the time I left. Gotta mix in a good amount of dodgy as hell with she'll be right mate aye 😂.
Those saussies were marvelous! And yeah haha probably a good 4 kilos of them went down a treat 😂
Water tasted great 😂 was a bit odd seeing all those weird animals though!
Thanks Paul, glad you enjoyed it 😁

[@2bfrank657]

That was Rock Wren! Lucky find, they're quite endangered and not very common. I've never seen one myself.

[@NZWildAdventures]

Thanks, they were pretty cool to see 😁 hilarious hopping bopping behaviour too 😂

[@mattharris2018]

Bloody epic

[@neilmason4135]

Great video, i just got back from the same mission, your name was last in the hut book! I hunted Vane stream

[@NZWildAdventures]

Hilarious 😂 awesome spot aye!

[@jayrichardson5059]

Awesome video like always mate those sausages casings work better if they are wet

[@NZWildAdventures]

Ahh I'll have to try that next time 😂 Cheers mate!

[@RedSonja.]

Cool video wandering thru the bush👍 but Bro! I’m from nz and even I struggle to understand u🤭I’ve never ever seen a tar before🤫

[@NZWildAdventures]

Yeah hahaha I'm terrible I know, tryna work on slowing the speech down a bit 🤣 magnificent animals in person! Cheers mate 😁

[@Roman-hs7pl]

Awesome video how do you navigate so well ?

[@NZWildAdventures]

Thanks! Fairly straightforward with the major valleys, this one had a marked trail up to hut too. Also got a map on my phone which can do GPS if necessary (not essential though), just handy for referencing for planning and executing each hunt 👍

[@lukewardlaw6261]

awesome

[@rhysforbes]

Another awesome adventure. Now how about sending some sausages over to an expat kiwi in oztralia?

[@NZWildAdventures]

Thanks mate! Hopefully you can make some of your own, perhaps a little less dry than mine 🤣

[@motboyzie2982]

Hey Tasman, what is that mincer/sausage maker you are using please?? Im keen as to get one. Just to use at home mind you 👍 Dont think I will be putting it in my backpack 😂 Love the vids, keep it up !!

[@NZWildAdventures]

It's just a cheapie mincer that I got from savebarn in ChCh 😂 think it was around 35 bucks, and sausage horns were from aliexpress cos I couldn't find any in nz. For the sausages I'd recommend a sausage maker tube syringe thingie though, it's kinda slow to fill them with the mincer. Hahaha it only weighs a kilo, why not 🤣. Thanks mate glad you're enjoying em!

[@keranduley1570]

Yes Bird was a Rock Wren - Xenicus

[@NZWildAdventures]

Thanks Keran 😊

[@NZ-Culler]

Cool video, where's your accent from? what rifle make and calibre do you use?

[@NZWildAdventures]

Thanks mate! Just a standard shocking kiwi accent 😅. She's a Tikka T3 in .270Win, with a rimu stock I made last year 👌

[@lukebrooks4766]

👍👍

[@michaelroe9926]

Curious about your reasoning for choosing .270 over other calibres like the 308

[@NZWildAdventures]

Familiarity mostly, grew up using em and they're a good flat shooter with plenty of juice for a large variety of game 👍. Plus, dad reloads in .270 so that brings down the cost a little 😆

[@normanphillipsakacheezel4944]

Mean mate shit you do the miles

[@Jarom.M]

What kind of plastic do you typically wrap your meat up in?

[@NZWildAdventures]

I use Thicc plastic bags (think they're 120 microns, around 600x900mm, no leaking though that when they're new and easy enough to clean for next time 😁. Though I've learned it's super important to cool the meat properly 😅. Those bags make good pack liners too!

[@Jarom.M]

​@@NZWildAdventures sounds good. I'll keep my eyes out for a reusable set of bags, too. Cheers!

[@NZWildAdventures]

No worries, got mine from total packaging ltd. in wigram 👍 about $1.50 each

[@hikingzone]

7:13 name of the Hut 🛖 ?

[@NZWildAdventures]

Flick us a pm 👍

[@ingimarmenzies5975]

The bird is a rifleman. Like yourself.

[@NZWildAdventures]

Hahaha cheers mate, though it may be a rock wren based on the posturing 🤔

[@2bfrank657]

Similar shape, but rock wrens have massive feet, spend lots of time on the ground, and that bobbing shown in the video is very characteristic of rock wrens. Riflemen hang out in the trees.