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My Tararua Hunting Trip

He mentioned going up to a farm out of Whanganui where we used to hunt regularly when we were younger but the weather wasn’t looking flash for that.

After a few ideas floating around in my head, I finally hatched a plan and gave him a call back. The plan was to walk into a spot in the Tararua Ranges for an overnighter where I had seen a few deer in the past. It would be my first hunting trip I had organised on my own. I could finally put my firearms licence to work and

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