CHAMOIS SHOOTING

Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 998, 14 June 1930, Page 9

CHAMOIS SHOOTING

SPORT IN THE SOUTHERN ALPS A number of hunters celebrated the first open season for chamois and thar by stalking chamois last week-end in the Mount Cook region. The result of two days’ sport was three fine beasts, two with good heads, and all with beautiful skins. On the first day a party of three worked up the Hooker Valley, leaving the Hooker Track and scouring the lower slopes of the Moorhouse Range. Mr. E. Hutchison, of the Hermitage, was successful in bringing down one animal, but although others were sighted, their timidity and quick flight saved them. The second day a party of six went up the Tasman Valley. They left their car at Husky Camp, about four miles above the Blue Lakes, and, dividing, followed up the gullies of the Mount Cook Range under Mabel and Rosa. In all, about 30 chamois were sighted, but many were in the far distance. Mr. H. Coxhead and Mr. J. Moffitt. of Timgiru, each secured a head, and the whole party was greatly impressed by the excitement of the sport. As yet chamois seem more popular than thar shooting, and as the chamois seem more numerous and more widely distributed over the various ranges, this is regarded with favour.