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Mists of Te Urewera Hunting (tails) from the bush Wilf Fuller

Wilf Fuller spent 50 years of his life hunting and tramping the misty hills and valleys of Urewera National Park (Te Urewera) or ‘The Ureweras’ as those vast expanses of native forest are affectionately known to his 1960s and 1970s generation. Wilf stalked these hills, initially as a government-employed deer culler hunting Rusa, Red and Jap deer as well as wild pigs. Then for 20 years he made his own living through meat-hunting and possuming. In more recent years the knives and rifles have been left at home in favour of the camera.

Wilf relates his hunting exploits in a language plain and simple, in many places with cryptic sentences that lead you at pace from one roaring stag to the next, from one gut-busting hill climb to dangerous river crossings. Very soon you are just feeling his exhaustion. Whether you’ve been there and done it yourself or merely dreamed of a similar outdoor, self-reliant lifestyle, these stories will keep you fully entertained.