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"Another adventure with Tim" is how one of Tim Wallis’ friends wryly puts it. The "adventure" came about when Wallis combined an “expensive toy” and a noxious pest: using helicopters to recover deer shot by hunters in inaccessible South Island backblocks. Live capture to stock deer farms followed and a multi-million dollar industry was born. At the peak of his operations, Wallis had a fleet of 35 helicopters. The aerial shots in and around Milford Sound are magnificent; and the stories he tells of his many crashes are 'she'll be right' Boy's Own classics.

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 Tony Benny
 Frank Torley
 Glenys Barker

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Quotes

I know I’m a hunter at heart and there have been many challenges that they have given me right throughout – from the days when I first shot to the helicopter days ... and really, when you’re looking at the farming side, in 20 years of farming a noxious animal has really been changed into a national asset.