BUCK TO BULL

It was 10pm on the night of the Fallow ballot closure. I got on the blower to my mate Jake, a keen English lad who is always up for an adventure

TOBY WALKER

“Yeap, sounds like a plan” Jake replied, as he always does. So, we both put our names in the hat for the ballot for the following year. 2020 closed with all sorts of epic alpine adventures done and dusted. At the start of the new year, the Fallow ballot was drawn and we had been allotted a desirable block for mid-May. We would catch the tail end of the rut. As it drew closer, we were feeling excited about spending five days chasing Fallow after hunting Reds around the Canterbury hills for two weeks the previous month. It's a great time of year to be a hunter - Reds going late March into April, then the Fallow rut, followed by the chamois rut in May then a bit of tahr…

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