 Welcome back and good morning everybody from New Zealand. Deep up in the mountains. We've just had our coffee, we've had our breakfast, get out here first thing. Todd spots a bull tar up on top of the mountains. I mean literally we're sitting next to hot spring pools. We've got this amazing cabin behind us where people stay and then we step outside and there's tar. Like all around us sound too bull tar and a shammy so far. So right now we're getting out the spotting scopes, kind of getting to see the movements. See if this this is a tar or a shammy that we can go after or if it's just no go. I mean if you look where it is, I know I can't get up there. So it's one thing to find them. It's another thing to find actual huntable tar that you can approach. Now for my buddy JT who is a hardcore bow hunter that adds a totally different element to try to get to those things and get a shot on him with a bow. So if he cannot get within bow range I'm gonna take the rifle and I'm gonna take the shot. He's got a huge challenge ahead of him but good news is we've already we're already seeing animals right off the bat y'all. Yesterday the hardest physical thing I've ever done. Slept like a rock and today just to get up and have this excitement feels good man so let's go get it done. So I'm gonna head across the river now. I've seen about half a dozen tar up here. Kind of work our way up the creek and see if they move down to a little bit better shooting position some pretty rough stuff right now so yeah we'll see what I see what the day brings. Crossing another mountain sway bridge. I promise you the color of this water is not photoshopped it actually is blue. What do you think JT? Well I think these mountains are crazy steep and it's freaking awesome that we've already seen some tar from the camp. Right up here is where we had one bull tar that was kind of in a position that we could get to so I was just glassing up here making sure he wasn't still there. Like most sheep hunts this is a lot of glassing just sitting here and looking at these rock lodges we've already seen five or six tar but can't get to them where they are it's insane where they're living so right now is the rut over here the males right now are a little bit different coloring so they stand out a little bit better. The thing about this area that we're in though Todd is saying like all these tar bull size so if there's really no question when you see one it's a definitely shooter bull I'm gonna shoot anything that I see and over here there's no restrictions regulations you could shoot a hundred tar in a day any size if you want to obviously I just want one and it's been a hell of a challenge getting up here so just savor the opportunity to see one and get the shot at one. So the tar are way up there we've been glassing down by the river for a little bit and Todd's thinking the best thing to do is just get to where they might come out get in the best position where there's like two or three little avalanche washout areas where they'll step out and then we could shoot from you know anywhere from I don't know hopefully close for JT. Yeah like 60 yards in them. 60 yards in them. That's what I want. It very well could be like 500 yards we just don't know we don't know where they're gonna come out so it's time to strap up get your gators on and get to rock steppin all the way up there. Straight hoofing it right here. Some of them are just like straight walls bigger pools up here we're about 2,000 feet of elevation right now. Have a good foot placement before you go on to the next rock across the way way up there the sketchy one there. I'm thinking about carrying this one. Yeah I'm jumping partner like a billy goat. That big rock right up there. That's where we're going we can see all around so we just got to get beyond this pool and then that's where we're gonna be hunting right there. I think we're gonna have to go up under this huge rock here. That's a big freaking rock. Good thing there's no jaguars in New Zealand. Last stretch right here. We're going straight up the waterfall and then we'll be at our spot up there where we can start glassing. This has been about three hours going straight up right here just to get to this spot. What'd you drop? It wasn't hanging very good or it wasn't stuck very good. Todd we gonna be able to go up that way? Do you have a good footing? I'm probably gonna have to hand you this bow. Grab that. Pass it on up to Todd. My shoes are not gripping very good right now. It's pretty wet right here so I'll use your axe to get on this side. Okay that's slick as f*** right there. Dude we ain't gonna be able to go this way. We may be sleeping up here tonight. You almost got it. That was rough y'all. Great thing about New Zealand though. There's water everywhere, drinkable. I forgot my canteen today so I'm just gonna get some of this water right here. This is a lot of work for a goat. Matter of fact all goat hunters right now. What's the word Todd? There's literally tar poop right here. You can smell. Tar literally get up on top of here. You can smell the must. We found a top of our rock where we're glassing now. So we can actually see the hut all the way down behind us. It's taking us probably three or four hours to get up here. Where we originally saw this tar this morning is probably about 600 yards. But now we're sitting on like this perfect rock where we can see tar coming from multiple directions. And we're just gonna sit here and we're gonna glass until we see something. We're literally a strange feeling. I get to start to feel the mist. Put the jacket on. A little strange to look up and then you see a mountain in the clouds. Anyways, we're hoping this is gonna give tar and possibly the shami too. A little bit of a false sense of security. That evening's coming closer. They're gonna step off the mountain a little bit. They give us a chance. We've worked so hard to get up here. It feels like heaven is meeting Earth right here. It's so weird. I assume we just need to get him to stand up. Yeah. Hold on a second. Can you hold it pretty steady? I can kill him whenever I got it recording. You do? Yep. And I've got it all perfect. It's not gonna work. It's just scope. You gotta stand up. I'm not gonna work right here. You could get my spine scope and the spine scope see up here. We'll know he's saying that the blast will shake this. This close to getting the shami. This fog just rolled in at terrible time before the shami was gonna stand up. We know that there's other animals up there. The shami kept looking back. We're gonna try to get up there and maybe make a stalk so JT can get along with his bow. And maybe we'll see some other animals up there when we get up there. It's a mountain hunt man. Conditions changing all the time. So we're gonna head over to this big rock. See if we can get on some other animals. Oh yeah I see. I was looking past him. Oh he's right there. They're up on top of our ridge. He's trying to get the camera out. Get over there fast enough. As soon as we started to even touch the rifle and started walking away. We don't have enough time to stay up here. The fog has gotten too thick. We know there's animals all up here. But we can't. It's gotta go all the way back down to those rocks and creeks and everything. And I guess we're gonna have to come back here later. I think tomorrow is just gonna be rain. So we're not even gonna be able to hunt. We saw a couple of animals at least. And there's signs of them. But it's not gonna happen today. We had to come down the mountain in the dark. And we had to even use our headlamps just to get back. The sun has been going out about 6.30. And adding in the overcasts, the mountains. You really have to wrap your hunt up earlier in order to get down. It took us over an hour and a half to get down. It took us about three hours to get up. And just crawling through all those rocks and the river. It was just a challenge. The physical aspect of hunting these goats is crazy. Like I trained. I got in shape for this hunt. My legs are still killing me. The great news is my back feels great. My head feels good. All that's good. It's just you gotta make sure you're stepping in the right spot. And if you're going down, you'll make sure that that rock doesn't have any slick spots to it. Or it's not gonna move. Because one wrong step and a rock can roll over on your ankle. And then you're really screwed. But what we learned yesterday is a great spot where those tarred and shaming are coming out. About 2,000 feet up the mountain. The top of the mountain is about 8,000. That's where you're seeing the snow. And it's really nasty up there. Definitely not going in that direction. The highest we'll probably go is maybe 35. Little grazing areas and have some grass to it. Little pathways. It's easier to spot when you're looking at a broad picture of it. And then kind of mark that. Keep the middle note of that. And then trek up there. It's not too shamy, but we weren't able to get a good shot. What I learned was this is a lot like bow hunting. Even though I'm gonna be hunting with a rifle. Todd's rifle that I'm hunting with. Similar to the one I have back home that has a dial out scope on it. The Leopold scope. And it's super accurate. But if you know the distance you can dial to 150, 300. All the way out to 600 yards and shoot really effectively. You just have to know that distance beforehand. And be able to dial real quick. And then squeeze a shot off. So in that aspect, it's a lot like bow hunting. It's so hard to hunt these goats from below. It's much easier to get on top of them. But in order to do that you have to sneak above them when they're not looking. And it's just a big challenge. Y'all, the weather is in charge of the program out here. If it wasn't for Todd, his knowledge of hunting up here for so many years. And just knowing the weather. And how it's looking. And how it's coming. Having those Garmin devices giving us the forecast. Where we can have a good idea of what's going on. It'd be extremely tough. And this is why I had to get so much gear. Like get the reindeer. Get the puffies. Get all the warm stuff. Because it is miserable conditions. Just cold and wet the whole time. We're extremely blessed right now to be able to stay in this hut. This cabin. There's no electricity. There's one little room that has water and a shower. And we're able to heat stuff up with a coal stove. Just to be able to get inside. Warm those coals up. Dry your boots out. Dry your gear out. That is nice. Because from here on out. Me and Todd. We're going to go by ourselves. JT's going to go by himself. And we're going to spike out. Which means basically we're taking everything on our back. Taking our tents. And we're sleeping on top of the mountain. Because in order to have those prime time moments. Where, you know, right as the sun comes up. And they're moving around. Just like white tail back at home. Right in the evening. You've got to have some time to get in position. Especially if we want to get on top of them. Get above them. And really get a good opportunity to see them. We've got to stay on top of the mountain. We're left. We're splitting up. That's where we started today. Right now at that river basin. Todd spotted. Spotted a tar.