Extreme Ambush Hunt - 7 Days in Remote Wilderness
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- 7 Days Hunting & Camping In Remote New Zealand Wilderness. Camping in the mountains, hunting for Bull Tahr, Chamois, and Red Deer.
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As predicted, there are a few comments from misunderstood viewers about killing animals and not bringing out all the meat. I don't usually respond to such but here it goes, hopefully clearing it up for future viewers. In summary, No, I did not carry out all the meat from the animals shot, just what I could carry. Tahr (and ALL other mammals such as deer, pigs, etc were introduced to New Zealand as the country was originally only populated by birds and reptiles (NO MAMMALS). Himalayan Tahr and Chamois were introduced to New Zealand in the early days of European settlement for sport. Both animals have found the Southern Alps of the South Island ideal habitat, but have become a major threat to the ecosystems in these alpine areas according to certain government agencies and if the numbers are not kept under control by recreational hunters, Helicopters are sent in and they shoot the Tahr by the thousands only to be left rotting on the hills. While I believe in utilising as much of any fish or animal I hunt for food, there are limitations. We carried what we could physically carry ( I have a beautiful supply of Tahr and Chamois meat now in my freezer at home) but left the rest on the hills. It may be difficult for viewers in certain parts of the world to understand such, but compared to many countries we have large populations of introduced species such as Deer and Tahr where numbers need to be kept under control which includes help from recreational hunters like myself. If not, numbers get out of control ( This is the case especially with deer, pigs and goats. When numbers are so out of control, this causes lots of devastation to native forests and alike then government agencies like to drop lethal poisons like 1080 which cause a lot of the animals to die slow painful deaths and talk about full eradication in areas which end up with less options to hunt wild meat for hunters. In the ideal scenario, I would love to take all the meat out, but it's not always viable, especially when you are in remote mountains 10 hours hike in, and no Helicopter to bring us out AND with me having ACL surgery just months before. Don't get me started on respecting animals, as most people who are commenting about the above have most likely never shot a rifle, or even held one. Peace
Nobody commenting about bringing out all the meat has ever experienced a hunt like this or dare I say a hunt at all. Your response is spot on although I'm afraid it will fall on deaf ears. You're a beast and I'm sure you have more true respect for animals and wildlife than any of these keyboard warriors. Fantastic as always.
Well said, Ollie. I just gave a brief synopsis…
As conservationists controlling exotic, invasive animals & plants, which if left unkept will alter the natural ecosystem that has evolved over millions of years, is imperative to preserving such a system. This is conservation on a landscape level by only targeting a few introduced species, and anyone engaging in such a practice of protecting a system by controlling these species should be commended.
One needs to realise that when these species were introduced to NZ their natural predators where not introduced alongside them, and there were no native predators present that could adapt to hunt them, hence the importance of people to fill that predator role.
@@vanzijlp Cheers for that. Might be important to highlight some of those facts in future videos. It's good to inform people as if you don't know, you don't know. However, It seems some people seek these videos out specifically just to cause debate and get attention.
@@olliecraig-primalpursuit Thank you for responding, I genuinely didn't know this information but I feel like I can understand your motivations from a societal pov much better now. Your writing does not fall on deaf ears and I greatly appreciate your clarifications here. I'm glad to know you have a freezer full of the meat as well and are working to preserve the natural ecosystem as well as take these magnificent shots at great distances which I was impressed by, but just was feeling uneasy as I didn't have the knowledge yet which you clarified here. Cheers. I greatly appreciate you taking the time to clarify for those of us not in the know. Thank you and keep it moving!
I've been living away from NZ for a while now and nothing makes me miss home like your videos, Cheers Ollie!
A dreams land call New Zealand - Thank you for taking us on this trip. Cheers from Bahia Brazil
Great video, Ollie. A bit of a departure from the usual, great to see the amazing high country
Well done my brothers...thankyou for showing us how a kiwi should conduct themselves in this enviroment and reminding us how precious our country is.
Beautiful footage as expected, I take my hat off to you both, your sacrafice to give us this amazing video.
Kaitiaki to the bone gentlemen...yes sir...
Thanx for taking us along Ollie. Spectacular countryside!
How Awesome is NZ!! & Ollie. Love the change up of scenery. You can do no wrong in my book.
Agree! 😊
Dannnnng!! Some savage terrain down south. Real hunting.. well done and good effort staying strong out there bro.. mean as 💯💪🏽
Nice to see you branching out to the mountains Ollie. As always amazing adventure
Nice work Ollie, we have some amazing country down south. This is inspiring me to make the effort to visit!
Hung over but the perfect adventure to watch while having my coffee before i go get in the water for a dive forster nsw Australia cheers ollie
WOW so exciting. You always impress me with your videos, but this amazing 👏
Bro you really make some of the best videos on CZcams
Great content. Amazing environment. Congrats on the tar. Thanks for sharing.
Ollie I'm so punmped to see new kinds of content, thank you!
That was outstanding. So impressive. Like you a bit lost for words. Well done Ollie and Max. Can't waoted to see the mounted heads.😊
Great hunting video, keep them coming!
Brilliant Vid mate.... Well done ! Keep the Hunting ones coming please ! Cheers
Really enjoyed your video great to watch
Awesome video man. Well done. You’re a legend bro. Keep it up cheers.
Great vid bro! The hard yards make the prize so much sweeter. Great tahr!
Give the Heli company a shout out.
That was actually sick man! I really enjoyed the whole thing. Got a good captivating production going on, nice 👌
Great to see a decent number of animals in the high country again.
Loving the on land hunt Ollie great content brother
Give the chopper company a shout out. We have to hold ourselves to account. Harassment of game in the U.S. is illegal.
This is Aotearoa, New Zealand
Kia ora Archer, here in Aotearoa all land mammals are introduced, as such are pests. If not controlled or eradicated, they are destroying the bush and nature. So hunting is encouraged and apart from not hunting on private property, there are few restrictions. Greetings 😊
The Chopper company is being dealt with away from CZcams, not the place for that here. Harassment of game such as Hazing, which the pilot was doing, I believe is also illegal here in NZ (or used to be). Luckily It was on the last day of the trip with already a few animals taken otherwise It would be a different story.
@olliecraig-primalpursuit completely useless by the heli pilot, they are a cocky bunch
@@vanzijlpwhy go for the bull then? Why drop everything?
It's definitely tough carrying a injury and putting in the big yards like that. I've been there myself it can be a mental, physical, emotional, challenge but you will never forget that trip. 💪
Amazing, Ollie. just really cool ❤
Awesome adventure Ollie. Thanks for taking us along. Bummer about the chopper on the last hunt.
You're such a tank ollie fresh out of surgery and already climbing tahr territory 💪🏿
Your the man bro don't worry about the haters just keep doing you and keep bringing us all that epic footage like you do 🤘🏿 CHURRRR!
Best one yet man! Such a great video you should be super proud👌
Cheers mate!
Love how down to earth you are ollie . Awesome video bro 👌 👍
awesome can't wait to see more
What can I say? Unreal hunting area, tough climbing, great hunts. As a fellow hunter I can appreciate the tough hunts that lead to success. I just shot a huge black bear in Alberta Canada with my bow. Good luck the the hunters of the world.
Aweome video. The scenery and adventure was outstanding. I'm ordinarily more into the ocean/Spear fish content but this was truely amazing footage and really showcases what NZ has to offer. I follow a few other channels but the Primal Persuit content/quality is leagues ahead.....well done mate 🤙
Amazing Olli what a mission! 💫🎉☺️
Epic! That Helicopter was a real letdown though... psychological game-killer.
Awesome vid Ollie. Just as promised…while we waited. The option of the tramp and slog to get to the prize is always worth it in the end. Keep on walking..
Stunning trip bro. Never eaten Tahr steak looks like a tasty beast. The Kia looked like they were keen on a feed. Amazing views of the mountains and a mean feed can't get better the that.
Awesome terrain ❤
With all the fishing you do in salt water i cant help but wonder if you do any fresh water fishing as NZ has some world famous trout fishing ? It is on my bucket list to visit NZ for some adventures trout fishing and ocean fishing. Stay safe out there Ollie !!
I started on trout fishing for 2 years, then I went to the ocean, and it spoiled the trout here. Salt water fishing is much more fun, more species, more bites...
Epic adventure bro. Put in the hard yards and got the rewards 🤙🤙 Some big country we have here in the South Island, keeps ya honest 😜😜
Good work mate. Top effort.
Love your content brother, regardless of whether you're out hunting or fishing🙌🏽
Thank you for sharing your adventures with us, I have no idea how long I've been watching you but it was back when you had an inflatable and your content was just as good then, cheers👍🏽
Thanks mate good to hear you like the vids!
Just another reason for me to pursue my NZ migration. Lovely terrain, great mountains. Nice hunt. 😎👌🏼
You will never regret it. I haven’t
yes and our national cusine now is curry
Awesome video, mate. The old ACL is a pretty common injury, but thankfully, it can be repaired pretty well these days. Imagine a hundred years ago, we'd be left lame for life. Had mine done a few years ago, and have been giving it a good workout ever since. Keep up the good work.
Love ur videos mate🤙🤙amazing adventures
man i love new zealand
great video ollie
Awesome Ollie great vid guess after this is where you called in to say hi to josh James with the heads lols well done , cheers , shaneo, Nelson, 🍺👍
You are one tough hunter. That looks like incredibly hard going.
I can't believe how disrespectful of other hunters that helicopter was. Glad you'd already got your animals.
Thanks for sharing an amazing hunt. #NewZealandtahrhunt , #NewZealandSouthIslandhunting , threw a few # to help raise the visibility of your channel for the you tube search algorithm - great channel and you deserve more views.
Ollie ya legend 😊
Tore my ACL and obliterated meniscus back in 2008 and still feel it every time i get out of bed, especially the cold mornings😬😔
glad to see you back out there a year later 'doing it to it' 😊 something about us crazy country boys😅😅😅
Don't forget to grab a mean feed of Blue Cod and Paua while you're down there😋😋😋
South Island is something else, before i moved to Aus i spent 15 years bouncing back and forth between the Waikato, Manawatu and Otago.... guess i'll be back one day🤔
Great video keep it up, maybe some more west coast adventures 👍
Epic!
great content makes me wish I was young aagin you crush it in everytime keep it coming
I snapped my ACL clean in half in 2010, my knee is stronger now though.
You must have forgotten that shooting extreem angles, the bullet goes hi !
Stunning videoing though and great scenary, but I'm bias, I'm a South Islander.
Legend
Awesome stuff mate. I walk many k’s for my beach fishing, only to have some experiences ruined by JetSki joyriders. Much respect, the scenery and sense of accomplishment is second to none. 🤙🏼
love the hunting videos a bit different from just fish fish fish
Mean. Your mates a weapon, letting you smoke everything!
Cheers
Great to see some Kiwi High Country. It’s always a humbling experience in the mountains. If you’re ever in the states I’ll take you out for a Montana archery elk hunt. Keep up the good work.
Thanks mate. I've thought about trying for the Wapiti (Elk) ballot here in NZ but think I would rather go to the states and try there with the bow as much better genetics and would be an awesome trip in different terrain. (Need to get into bow hunting first which I am putting off as I know I will become addicted). Plan was also to head to the states for a holiday and buy my setup there as so expensive down here in NZ
I love how you guys call them wapiti down there as that’s about American as a word as you can get !
I live in a pretty sweet town in Montana and am fortunate enough to be an hours drive from some pretty heavy wilderness areas. Lots of predators, big animals and bigger country.
I always say I don’t hunt for trophy animals out here because every animals is a trophy because they live in trophy country.
The prices you guys pay for gear is outrageous. When you get a plan for your holiday in motion don’t hesitate to reach out. I can send you some info/photos/potential places to hunt.
Thank you for clarifying that issue with the killing of those animals. There population may need to be kept under control but I just have to admire them. They are beautiful animals, much more gorgeous looking. Goats for example have nothing on these beautiful creatures. Great hiking adventure. New Zealand is just absolutely beautiful.
Sick bro. Been hanging out for this one 👌
what cuts did you take from the tahrs bro?
Hey Ollie, I have a couple of questions for you but first, Congratulations of three successful hunts! I live about 3 hours from the Canadian Rockies in Alberta, my mates and I usually hunt in and below the foothills in the valleys and swamps for Moose, Elk and Deer (Mule and Whitetail). I did a mountain hunt when I was in my early 20's for a Dall Sheep in the Yukon, a hunt that even though I was still in decent shape from playing Rugby and North American Football still was the most taxing hunt physically I have ever been on. Your Tahr look sort of like our Mountain Goats at least in size and they have similar terrain they call home. I have never hunted Goats but I have had Mountain Goat in a stew that was very lovely.
Okay, now the questions. I do appreciate the tough terrain you hiked while on your hunts, about how far are you normally shooting? I think that second Tahr Bull you said it was a 600m shot, is that right? What are you shooting that you feel confident in taking a shot that long? Our Moose hunts are generally in a Swamp or Boreal/Conifer mix forest situation and our shots are typically under 40m if Bow hunting or a maximum of 200m with our rifles (two different seasons). My bow is a Monster Bow Dragon, and for firearms I shoot either my old but trusty Lee Enfield .303 British, or my equally trusty Husqvarna in 30.06. Both shoot fairly flat out to 200m. Second question, how did you manage to haul out all that meat as well as the horns and hides? We have the luxury of having trikes and now quads to bring the animals out and then the butchered carcass is hoisted up a game pole to keep any pesky bears, mountain lions or wolves out of our hard earned meat. To my knowledge you don't have any predators on land to worry about in New Zealand, is that correct? Thank-you for the video, I really enjoyed your adventure, as I do for all your exploits!! Cheers!! - Dave
PS - Did you manage to catch the ID # off the helicopter or find out the name of the outfitter that those hunters used? If it had been us they would have received a very hostile greeting for destroying a hunt that had been planned out, especially if they had seen you BEFORE landing. I don't know if you managed to catch up to those hunters, but I like to think you did and gave them what for!!
Zero predators in NZ mate.
@@Andy_M986 I didn't think so, thanks for confirming that for me! Cheers mate!
@canucklehead0 All good mate
hey man, just a quick reply to the first question with no disrespect to the trip or him: I think the multiple missed animals and using 6 bullets at 480m on 1 animal shows that he is FAR from capable yet alone comfortable shooting at that distance, . the real answer to that is just time and practice behind the rifle, you work your way up like most things to being confident at distance by a lot of practice at closer distances and then at the range. Another key point is just being familiar with your rifle and its ballistics so when it comes to it you can read and adjust your point of aim accordingly.
@@rubenwairau391 Thank-you for the reply! I agree completely with your analysis. I have two main rifles for hunting and know them, their characteristics as well as the ammunition I use is the same ammunition I have used year over year. I also agree that some time spent at a range will help out tremendously with his confidence to shoot at distance. There is nothing that will improve your ability to take a shot at distance than practice at a range. I know that my shooting would improve if I was loading my own cartridges but, I just don't have the room in my house to set up all the equipment needed to custom load my own ammo. That said, like many hunters I do try and shoot at least a couple times a month either at the Gun Range or plinking with my .22 so that my shooting skills stay somewhat sharp.
I've got some buddies going up through those mountains. If you come across them tell 'em not to go through the mines.
Ollie, not sure if you know that bullet trajectory is flatter shooting uphill and downhill than horizontal at the range. Maybe you know, maybe you didn't. The horizontal placement looked good for your on camera miss. I once shot an American elk on a steep slope downhill. I aimed at the bottom of the rib cage and took the top of the heart off at 150 yards.
Very new to any semi long range shots etc. lots of practice before my next trip 👍
Man!
I can’t even begin to explain how absolutely amazing this seems.
I kept wowing throughout the entire video, thinking how incredible it all seems - the views, being out there for an entire week, in this wild, virgin nature, hunting for these amazing beasts, enjoying the fruits of nature, as god intended, that seems like the kind of life that I dream about, and work towards.
I’ve got a couple of questions -
How much do they weigh?
How do you process them after you kill them?
Just curious, did you wish you had gloves climbing up through the brush? We like your channel
Good job ldol from dipaculao aurora borlongan Philippines
Do they only take the head?
How much harder is hunting than floating in a wetsuit! Awesome effort it looks tough
Brilliant Ollie. Name and shame the chopper company and
dangerous hunters.
Ollie, the country there is beautiful! Not much into hunting, as the animal doesn’t have much of a chance with a high powered rifle. Do you eat what you kill and use the skins? I much prefer fishing videos. The mountain streams look cold and the water looks delicious.
Mint as 👌👌
Helicopter hunts as in choppers dropping hunters and then herding the animals, is becoming a real scourge of the NZ mountains lately.
How did u find the knee went man. I'm 18 months since going under knife and hunting this roar no problem at all. Looked like a hard trip for a fresh opp haha
Knee was 6 and half months post op. Felt strong as fuck, but was taking it very cautiously, mostly just a bit of swelling and stiffness after. Knee caps took the heat from all the down hill were bruised and sore for weeks
Next time you go hunting instead of taking heaps of food try take some back country packs really healthy and light to take also gives you all the energy you need 👌🏾
Yeah bro took fair few of those but just went over board on the food. We actually ended up chewing though most of it plus some fresh kill in the hills. I like to eat haha
Mate, I think you're a seal, you're better in the water 😂
Hard yards hunt, isnt max allowed a shot?😅
Come to bluff bro for a dive
wanted to while i was downs south but conditions were terrible. Will try come back down in Summer
Keep it up bro good work mean
You're a tough bugga ain't you.
If that is where I think it is those tourist hunters are allowed to be landed there and the rest of us kiwi hunters are not. Hope you recorded some illegal heli activity and report it, they have to follow AATH protocol yet most don't
First proper hunt aye ?😂
Only second Alpine hunt, done plenty of Bush including Fiordland, but coming off a bad sickness where I lost 5 kg then hitting those km's and altitude it was ruthless haha. Oh and the miss shots, well yeah lot's to learn and train about for long distance
So what you do with all the meat. I didn't see you carrying it all...😮
Recommend some more range time. Beautiful country to hunt.
Bro
genuinely wondering if you are hunting for sport or for food? cz im wondering how you could hv carried all that meat?!-
I think they just take the head. Seems a bit wrong if you ask me
For both. Carried what I could out. Would be a different story if we were getting flown out by chopper. If numbers aren’t controlled by recreational hunters then the government agencies send in helicopters and they get shot by the thousands and left on hills for total wastage. Look up history of Tahr in. NZ (introduced species)
@@olliecraig-primalpursuit yeah with no natural predators in nz numbers can rise quickly. love the videos, keep em comin!!
@@olliecraig-primalpursuitthank you for addressing this! I really appreciate how you are normally very careful about not wasting your kills, and was surprised to see you not harvesting on this trip! Awesome vid as always!
@@chrishannon9500 - In short, tahr are introduced pests in NZ and the numbers need to be controlled carefully - even aggresively at times. Recreational hunters play a part in this (as per Ollie) but there is also govt-run culling done by helicopters where they are left where they drop. I repeat, they are pests that are damaging the sensitive high country eco-system and it's important that they are reduced in numbers.
It saks
All this adventure for the sake of a few skulls and a few pieces of meat? You don't take the meat with you, but leave it to predators?
Read my pinned comment
yeah....shit shot
Soo gutted about the end with F$&kin machines again dropping guys in on areas you (we) work hard to get to honestly. I reckon these helicopter pilots must feel like parking ticket officers as they pretty much hated at times like this.
Oh well, they after the money like most so can’t blame them but what a living Bahaha
Old max didnt get much shooting he just went to carry the amo .Too much of this heli hunting going on nowadays should be totally banned
Yeah he's already shot some big Tahr, unless there was something massive he was happy to just be in the mountains and helping me. Good guy, that will be me in a few years helping another mate get onto their first Tahr. I don't have a problem with Helicopters dropping people in for a week hunt for example but the herd do need management and not all people are so physically capable, but the Heli Assisted hunting in absolute bullshit for sure.
So you take the head and maybe a bit of meat but leave the majority of it behind? Or did someone come and collect it, I'm confused. And then you kill a second and third one before you've managed to capture the whole of the first, or did you? I'm pretty confused here. Like why kill something massive just for a small bit and pitch/leave the rest? For views I guess, that's the real motivation behind these kills, not the meat the animal serves but the views turns into money which you can use to buy other meat yourself? It's hard for me to wrap my head around what exactly is going on here motivation-wise. If you want to eat good, why not do more spear fishing, seems like you can take the whole thing away at once and use its energy to the full potential. This just seems wasteful, but again, you're getting ad revenue so maybe it's just more popular and you're able to leave the corpse to decay and purchase meat with money you made from the video instead? I guess a wagon/rope setup to get the animal out wouldn't get as much views and overall you get less meat from killing in that way since you make money for 'trophy-style' content, like measuring the horns and leave the majority of the good meat behind to decay? Or maybe you did get the whole animal out with time, I really can't tell. No judgement, just trying to understand what motivates you to do this and why you don't feel it's necessary to be able to get the whole animal out in order to take the shot in the first place (or again maybe you did and I missed it, or maybe someone else did and it just wasn't in the video). I guess I'm partial to that way of thinking where civilizations would kill animals but use every part of it to its full potential so that the animal serves as much a purpose as it possibly can. Now again, maybe the best way to convert this animal is to do a trophy style kill because views increase in the algorithm and equate to more value to you, I really don't know, and that's why I'm posting, to try to understand what goes on in your mind and whether you want to do things differently next time or if this is what you think is indeed best. I would think having a wagon and rope setup to get the animal out would be technical and interesting in such terrain, but again, maybe you've tried that before and it gets a lot less views or something, like, there could be other factors that affect all of that which I would be curious to hear more about from you or others with experience in the intersection of hunting and social media. My first thought would be that if you weren't prepared to get the animal out then you shouldn't kill it, but then you wouldn't get as many views on social media nor would you get those tiny morsels of meat you are looking forward to. But still, something seems off about it to me, that doesn't mean it's wrong. I'd just like to know more about your philosophy around this - I assume you've thought about these things extensively. Like seeing you kill these massive animals and then eating ultra processed food out of a bag was overall confusing from a narrative point of view.
In short, tahr are introduced pests in NZ and the numbers need to be controlled carefully - even aggresively at times. Recreational hunters play a part in this (as per Ollie) but there is a significant amount of culling done by helicopters where they are left where they drop. I repeat, they are pests that are damaging the sensitive high country eco-system and it's important that they are reduced in numbers.
@@TimAndersonOfficial Hi, I appreciate the response by you and olliecraig-official. These words do not fall on deaf ears, and I greatly appreciate how this ties into ecosystem preservation and the environmental context for his activities. I also feel better about being impressed by the great distance these shots were taken at which I was confused at first if I should be impressed or disgusted to be honest with you! I should have looked up the region myself before posting as it would have at least in part answered my question and calmed some of my unease. Thank you for the words, and cheers.
@@TimAndersonOfficial but many thar hunters also protested at the notion of doc eradicating the thar. Surely the motivation therefore is sport, not assisting in pest control?
@@AH-wn6dw Oh, it's definitely sport. I'm just saying that hunters have a role in pest control too. There's lots of factors involved.
@@TimAndersonOfficial👍🏼
From the sea to the mountains I miss your spearfishing activity.
Awesome country side
Awesome video man! So inspiring, now I definitely want to get into hunting at some point 🤙🏼 For now spearfishing will do