Hunting Books and DVDs
To Help Develop Great Stalking Skills

The New Zealand Deer Hunter's Handbook
by Alex M. Gale

At last! A complete resource for the Kiwi deer stalker. Let's face it; it's great fun to read about hunting elk in Montana or moose in Manitoba, but most of us hunt right here in the New Zealand bush where the environment and the techniques used are as unique to New Zealand as pavlova and Spaights. The New Zealand Deer Hunter's Handbook covers hunting in New Zealand from field to table. You will find extensive information on how to hunt safely, effectively and successfully; how to get your venison out of the field and into the cooker; and how enjoy the fruits of the hunt. In Chapter 21 you will find over a dozen venison recipes with easy-to-follow instructions that even a non-cook can understand.

The New Zealand Deer Hunter's Handbook is an invaluable resource guide to everything that is part and parcel of hunting in New Zealand from ballistics to venison cooking. You will also find links to over one hundred websites that will provide more information than could be contained in any single book.

Here is an entire volume of basic New Zealand deer hunting information that every hunter, beginner or expert, needs to know. Alex Gale has been hunting deer and guiding other hunters for over forty years and is the author of three other hunting books.

Soft cover, spiral bound with 168 pages and lots of colour photos.

Fair Chase
by Andy Lyver

If you are a bloke looking for a way to encourage your partner to accompany you on your bowhunting jaunts then you should do two things. First read this book by Andy Lyver. You will find it to be a fascinating story, well written and entertaining for anyone interested in hunting. You will quickly get over the fact that Andy isn't a bowhunter (You may even forgive her for it) enjoy the story of a young woman's journey from being a non-hunter to becoming as keen as her new mate.

The Second thing to do? Give it to your partner to read--she (or he) will love you for it.

When Andy married into a prominent hunting family in the Hawke’s Bay she had a choice–beat’em or join’em. It wasn't a hard decision. She'd grown up enjoying the outdoors and the freedom that life in the country offered a girl, but hunting has been something men did. With the guidance of Maco, her unflappable mate, she discovered a whole new world that satisfied her appetite for adventure, scrapes and challenges.

As a former editor of the New Zealand Deerstalkers’ Association magazine New Zealand Hunting & Wildlife, freelance writer, pilot and a seasonal cook for a hunting lodge, Andy brings a whole new perspective to the hunting experience.

Introduced by Garry Ottomann, Executive Director of The Game and Forest Foundation. Hard cover with 158 pages and lavishly illustrated with colour photos.

Stalking the Seasons Round
by Roger Lentile and Frank Saxton

Stalking the Seasons Round is the only complete guide available to hunting all seven species of deer found in the New Zealand bush. Red deer, wapiti, Sika, fallow, whitetail, sambar, and rusa are all discussed here in the kind of detail and plain understandable language the average New Zealand hunter needs.

The authors describe in vivid detail the behavior and habits month by month throughout out the year of all deer species along with feeding habits, rutting behavior, and field identification of deer are all covered along with the territorial behavior of each species. The section on reading deer sign will be especially helpful to bowhunters.

Stalking the Seasons Round is a very readable and practical book which deserves a place on every bow hunter's bookshelf. Hardback with 120 pages and illustrated with line drawings and colour photographs.