IN THE ALPS
Chamois Shooting
A number of hungers took advantage of the first open season for chamois and that 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 three with beautiful skins. • On the first day a party of three worked up the Hooker Valley and scoured the lower slopes of the Moorhouse range. Mr. It. 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, following the gullies of the Mount Cook range under Mabel and Rosa. In al], about thirty' chamois were sighted, but many jvere too far away. Mr. H. Coxhead and Mr. J. Moffitt, of Timaru, each secured a head and the whole party were greatly impressed by the attractions of the eport. As yet chamois seem more popular khan thar, more numerous, and more widely distributed over the various ranges.
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Dominion, Volume 23, Issue 221, 14 June 1930, Page 9
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178IN THE ALPS Dominion, Volume 23, Issue 221, 14 June 1930, Page 9
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