James Cagney's New Zealand Hunting Adventures
Lake Coleridge · 1 Hart Place, CMB 22, Lake Coleridge, RD 2 Darfield, Canterbury 7572, New Zealand
James Cagney's New Zealand Hunting Adventures is a free-range outfit based at Lake Coleridge in Canterbury, 75 minutes from Christchurch International Airport. The operation focuses on genuine free-range wilderness hunts for red stag, bull tahr and chamois in the Rakaia Valley and surrounding ranges, with wallaby and game-bird shooting as add-ons.
Access is by Land Rover into private land, with helicopter use for public-land hunts built into the package price rather than charged separately. Hunting style is spot-and-stalk on foot with heavy emphasis on glassing — Cagney quotes a 95%+ success rate on free-range rifle hunts.
Packages are priced in USD with clear 1x1 and 2x1 daily rates and trophy fees, and combo packages running up to 12 days for the three-species grand slam. Suited to hunters wanting authentic free-range alpine hunting rather than fenced estate trophies, with the Canterbury logistics keeping transfers short.
Species targeted
Pricing
- Chamois 5-day 1x1 (private land, incl. trophy)$9,500 USD
- Chamois 5-day 2x1 (each hunter)$8,250 USD
- Tahr 5-day 1x1$9,500 USD
- Tahr 5-day 2x1 (each hunter)$8,250 USD
- Red Stag 7-day 1x1$9,500 USD
- Red Stag 7-day 2x1 (each hunter)$8,250 USD
- Chamois/Tahr combo 7-day 1x1$16,500 USD
- Red Stag/Chamois combo 10-day 1x1$16,500 USD
- Red Stag/Tahr combo 7-day 1x1$16,500 USD
- Red Stag/Chamois/Tahr 12-day 1x1$23,500 USD
- Additional Chamois / Tahr / Red Stag trophy$4,000 USD
- Additional Fallow Buck trophy$4,000-$5,000 USD
- Wild Boar trophy$1,500 USD
- Goat / Arapawa Ram trophy$1,500 USD
- Wallaby / small game (per day)$1,200-$1,600 USD
- Non-hunting companion (per day)$150 USD
Prices as listed on the operator's site. Confirm with the operator before booking.
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