South Island, NZ

Fallow Ventures

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Hunt two of the most requested game species on our 75,000 acre South Island estate - the royal Red Stag and a beautiful Fallow Buck. If timing is suitable you can hunt the Stag towards the end of the Roar and at the beginning of the Fallow Rut. 

 

Includes: Red Stag and Fallow Buck, 4 nights accommodation, breakfast, lunch, dinner, snacks, tea/coffee, transfer from/to agreed airport, guiding by Professional Hunter, hunting license for the hunting area, field trophy preparation, unofficial measuring of trophy, trophy photography. Firearm use and ammunition if needed.

5x Day Red Stag & Fallow Buck Hunt Combo

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$8,500usd

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The New Zealand Fallow Bucks boast some of the most beautiful palmed antlers in the world. Their rut runs from mid April through till the end of May. They come in a wide range of colors - some are spotted and others are solid colors.

 

We run these hunts from March until August each year.

 

Includes: Fallow Buck. 4 nights accommodation, breakfast, lunch, dinner, snacks, tea/coffee, transfer from/to agreed airport, guided by PH guide, hunting license for the hunting area, field trophy preparation, unofficial measuring of trophy, trophy photography. Firearm use and ammunition if needed.

5x Day Fallow Buck Hunt

From:

$5,500usd

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Fallow deer or Dama dama dama were amoung the first species of deer to be successfully introduced to new Zealand. They are the most variable of any deer species in New Zealand with four quite distinctive colour phases.

 

 

  • Melanistic: In New Zealand this is the most common colour encountered. Brown-black back with paler grey-brown underside and neck. There are no spots or tail patch.

  • Common: Light red brown sides and back with conspicuous white spots and a black stripe down the back. Colour grey black in winter.

  • Menil: A paler version of the 'common phase' fallow, in summer coat, but doesn't attain the darker winter coat.

  • Leucistic: In young animals a creamy colour which with age (by second summer) become's pure white. Such white animals are not albino having dark eyes and nose.

 

We have multiple options for hunting Fallow both free range and estate options.  Their rut usually runs from Mid April  through to the end of  May or mid June this changes year to year but we have found generally by the start of May they have started rutting.

 

They are a very alert deer and a lot of fun to stalk with bow or rifle in hand.

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