A Great Opportunity

This story started before World War 1, February 1902 to be more exact. My grandfather was awarded a book prize at Board School, South Bank, Leeds in Yorkshire. Its title was “The Deerslayer”, by J. Fenimore Cooper. How prophetic! Yes, I inherited

I shot my first deer back in 1985, a very tasty red hind. I was hunting with “Stretch” AKA Glenn Giffen in Queensland. Today Glenn operates Muckadilla Safaris in the Territory, guiding for trophy buffalo, scrub bulls and pigs.

Roll on the years filled with lots of target shooting and hunting all over the Pacific. Fallow, red, rusa, hog stag, sambar and chital, I had taken a male of each species found in Oz.

Trips to the North, South and Stewart Island on NZ were sometimes successful, with Sika,