Backcountry New Zealand Hunting and Fishing Guides

13/02/2026

Best of Red Stag hunting in New Zealand.

02/01/2026

29/08/2025

Always the highlight of our season, and thanks so much to Methven for their continued support of this effort.

Mince, glorious mince – maybe not the prettiest picture but it's a wonderful sight for us in our foodbank freezer. Protein is one of the hardest things for us to source for the people we look after but luckily the deer hunting community have got our back.

We are getting the best wild caught, organic, free range venison mince (go on, let’s say in the world) for our clients thanks to Nigel and Myriam Birt of Alpinus Station and Backcountry New Zealand Hunting and Fishing Guides and the Hunters4Hope team who supply us through the Hope Community Trust.

In both cases, hunters – local and international guests – are honouring their sport by processing surplus venison from the hunts into mince packs for people struggling to feed themselves and their families.

The Birts have been supporting us since 2018 and they have been joined recently by the North Canterbury hunters. The mince helps us feed our men’s and women’s emergency shelter residents, our day programme guests and our foodbank clients. We are also blessed with longstanding support from farmers through the Meet The Need NZ charity.

Sometimes you hear talk about an urban-rural divide but when the mince donations arrive in our freezer what we see is Kiwis helping other Kiwis and it feels like we are all in this together.

We fed about 320 people today and we do that every weekday. Thank you so much to everyone who helps us do that. ❤️

07/06/2025

Today’s hunt transport was rather unique and very fun.

07/05/2025

The most amazing family fun!

20/04/2025

Utilising quality equipment in the pursuit of quality experiences..

24/02/2025

Jarom and Nicole had to wait patiently for this big old boy to wake up from his sunny resting spot and start the afternoon grazing towards us…. But man wasn’t it worth the wait!.

18/02/2025

As we are about to land back in New Zealand we wish to thank everyone that assisted us so much with our trip. Without you all, your generosity and kindness our trip would not have been so seamless and successful. We loved catching up with each and everyone of you. Thank you also to everyone that visited us at the shows to learn about New Zealand, it was great to pass on our love of our country. Again thanks, we are forever grateful. Nigel Myriam and Ruben.