Himalayan tahr deja vu. Feeding the addiction.

[LITTLEBIGMAN]

Wow is the only word that comes to mind.  Crazy  and fantastic. Congrats to you Clint.!!

Just getting to the hunt location is amazing in itself!

[hybridbow hunter]

Wow!  fantastic adventure and trophy!!!
 

[ozy clint]

so, with the drowning of my camera in the tent fiasco this is the limit of my pictures. i'm very thankful that the SD card still works. mark might have some more photos to add if he sees this thread but he doesn't get much internet where he is so it could be awhile. when i get his copies i'll post some up if he hasn't done so.

i bummed around the hut the next day and split some wood, re salted the cape, made a deadfall trap to catch the hut mice and ate tahr.

i must have slept awkwardly that night because i awoke with a stiff neck and the hike to the next hut only served to make it worse. the sleep that night was terrible and my neck was very painful and i wasn't able to move it much at all. the guys insisted that we more evenly share the weight in our packs to make it easier on my neck for the last leg out to the road end. mark carried the cape which was 8kg. paul carried some of my tent and my binos. it made a huge difference and made the hike out much more bearable.
thanks guys! a team effort as always.

[Whip]

DIY bull tahr two years in a row in the most spectacular country on the face of this planet.  What else could possibly be said? I can't begin to imagine a feat more difficult!

Congratulations on the most amazing accomplishment I've ever read of Clint.  The whole thing simply boggles my mind.  Like others have said, just getting to and being in that country is a feat of a lifetime.  To bring home bulls like that is simply hard to comprehend.  

I've followed every word of these threads each and every year and it just keeps getting more and more amazing.  Thank you for taking the time to share with those of us who will only experience it through you.

[wooddamon1]

Great story and photos, congrats on the beautiful animal. Heck of a hunt!

[Duckbutt]

TOP SHELF !!!!

[suttoman]

I grew up and lived in the North Island of New Zealand, so I am not so familiar with the territory that this story is set in.  However, this is truly an amazing feat - just like
Whip said.  There is some territory a bit like this in the North Island, and I have trekked through there in my younger days.  However, the Southern part of the South island is much more rugged and dangerous.  Climbers die there every year.

To be able to go up there - two years in a row - on public land (no fences, no guide, no canned-hunt) - and harvest two of these majestic, wild bucks with a trad bow, is truly truly amazing.  To put this into perspective, when I lived in NZ in my youth, my uncle was an avid dear-stalker (hunter).  He belonged to a club, knew all the good spots, had the latest rifle and gear, but I think in all the years he hunted, he only ever shot one deer.  Imagine pursuing a prey that is much more wary than a deer, in open country, with a bow that has max range at about 30m, in rugged mountains - is truly mind boggling.

Clint - you have my utmost respect.   I struggle to even hit a rabbit here where I live in the Australian desert!!

Sutto

[Cyclic-Rivers]

Incredible.

I share whips sentiments. I'm still in awe.

 

[John Havard]

Great posts and a tremendous accomplishment.  Thanks for sharing the journey and taking us along with you.

[Carcajou]

SIMPLY AMAZING.

[lt-m-grow]

Love this hunt.  Thanks for sharing because...I ain't gonna do it :-)

Just awesome.

[J-dog]

Very Nice, you really get after it Clint! Love to read y'all's stories

[Paul R]

I enjoyed your telling of the tale Clint, it was great to have experienced it with you and Mark again this year.

[flyne]

Congrats on the bull mate well done

[Killdeer]

Your posts are a must-read!
Thank you for sharing the story of your great adventure.

Killdeer

[yononindo]

Ozy

my hat´s off to you ...

That is a hunt I´d love to do myself one day.

I´ve been bumming round NZ for about 3 weeks in February ...

Had me some good fishing going but no bowhunting ...

Bumped into some members of the NZ Deer Stalking Association as well ...

maybe next time ...


congrats from across the pond    

[J from Denmark]

AWESOME !
and I really like your starting sentence :An addiction to adventure is incurable and can only ever, at best, be temporarily satisfied

Thats exactly how I feel... and so very well put that it could have been written by Hemmingway, Rosevelt or some of other great outdoor writers

With your permission I would like to use that sentence in other circumstances..  

Congrats !

[Warden609]

Outstanding!!!

[Tique]

Awesome is all I can say. Congratulations to you and your mates!

[ozy clint]

thanks guys.