FOUR WAPITI HEADS.

Auckland Star, Volume LXX, Issue 89, 17 April 1939, Page 14

FOUR WAPITI HEADS.

THREE "WEEKS* HUNTING,

(By Telegraph.—Own Correspondent.) INVERCARGILL, Saturday.

With a bag of four wapiti heads, including a fine 14-pointer ooin long. Mr. E. J. Herrick, of Hastings, and Major R. A. Wilson, of Bulls, returned to Invercargill after three weeks in the Bligh Sound district. In the course of their trip the hunters saw nine bulls, six cows and three calves.

In an interview Mr. Herrick said that pullers had done their work well and had cleaned out the Glaisnock area. Mr. Herrick and Major Wilson entered the Bligh Sound area from the Glaisnock, which runs into Lake Te Anau.

"Our best head," Mr. Herrick said, "was a 14-pointer. It was a long head and very heavy, but a bit narrow in the beam."

The hunter added that points did not count for very much in wapiti, length being th» main factor. This particular animal wa« 55in, which was good. They had shot four bulls, one being one of the best he had ?ecn, and another being one of the worst, a very poor specimen, which was better dead. It might, he thought, be regarded as a sign that the quality of the beasts was deteriorating.