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Backcountry Hunting Podcast

Planning a DIY Hunt to New Zealand, with Rob Gearing

Backcountry Hunting Podcast

Joseph von Benedikt

Backcountry, Rifle, Deer, Podcast, Elk, Mountain, Sports, Hunt, Wilderness, Cartridge, Hunting

4.91.1K Ratings

🗓️ 11 April 2025

⏱️ 74 minutes

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Summary

Ever wanted to hunt New Zealand? Better yet, hunt New Zealand DIY, on public land? It's an easy and affordable hunt to do. If Kiwi country calls to you, it's time to plan and make that hunt happen! 

This episode, we sit down with Spartan's Rob Gearing, one of the most experienced worldwide adventurers I know. Rob is extremely experienced at hunting New Zealand, and has some invaluable advice and some great, inspiring stories. ENJOY! 

 

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Transcript

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0:00.0

Welcome to the show today, folks. Once again, I have the most interesting man in the world on the

0:05.8

podcast here, but this time we're recording from across the pond. Rob Gearing, the Spartan

0:11.2

Precision Equipment, has just returned from New Zealand and has some adventures to share with us.

0:17.6

Welcome back to the show, my friend. Well, it's very good to be here, my friend.

0:21.4

This is the first time we've done a podcast like this, Joseph. We've done them on this side of the

0:25.6

pond. We've done them in Africa and we've done them in the States, but we've always been

0:29.4

together. So it's great. The technology allows us to do these things. It's pretty incredible.

0:37.3

And folks, if the audio quality

0:39.0

isn't what we usually produce, just bear with us. I'm sure the conversation will be stellar,

0:44.2

as it always is, with this gentleman we like to call Lord G from the UK. Well, thank you.

0:52.8

No, New Zealand was great fun, Joseph.

0:56.3

I don't know if you do know.

0:58.0

I used to do a lot of work out there in a previous life.

1:00.9

So I'm very fond of New Zealand.

1:03.1

I've got a lot of good buddies out there.

1:05.6

It's a bit of a mecca for us hunters, I would say.

1:10.7

And it's one of those things that offers so much from public land hunting to obviously

1:17.5

amazing lodges that you can go to.

1:20.1

So there's a flavor for everybody out there, really.

1:22.8

You've just got to know what flavor you're after.

1:25.4

So you're pointed in the right direction.

1:27.7

Sure.

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