Americana Outdoors E-Magazine - May 2018

day of hunting was to have Danielle Sanville, from Thompson/Center, and Eric Poole of Guns & Ammo, head off with their guide Stacy on a Tahr hunt about three hours away, while Angel, myself, and our guide, Dan Rossiter, went off in search of Red Stag. For this hunt I would be using the T/C Pro Hunt- er Encore rifle in .308 topped with a Cabela’s HD Instinct 4X12 Scope . We would be hiking a lot of steep and hilly terrain so I had brought along a new pack that Cabela’s is releasing this Fall to field test it in regard to carrying all my optics. These optics included a new, yet to be released, Cabela’s Spot- ting scope as well, and that I would be putting to the test glassing the hills, valleys and dense thick- ets of ferns that make up this part of New Zealand. It wasn’t long into the glassing that morning that we spotted a group of several Stag’s bedded down on a hillside some distance away. After confirming there were at least three and possibly four shoot- ers in the group we began to work our way around to get a closer look. We ended up hunting this group all day long after that first stalk before find- ing success late the afternoon. This is just a small part of the many memories we made at Glen Dene Station that week, all of which we’ll be sharing both in future episodes of Ameri- cana Outdoors and elsewhere.

Danielle Sanville (left) Stacy Shuker(center) and Eric Poole of Guns and Ammo (right) pose with Eric’s Tahr and Thompson/Center Compass chambered in 6.5 Creedmor.

Wade (left) and Angel (right) glass for Red Stag

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Wade stalks a Red Stag in the valley below him with his Thompson/Center Encore Pro Hunter

Breathtaking views were present everywhere you turned in the Dobson Valley