Hunting Aotearoa - Series Five, Episode Six

I don’t always have to kill something. I get as much of a kick out of videoing and photographing animals … the whole stalking and sneaking up onto an animal … you don’t necessarily have to shoot every animal that you see … I get as much of a buzz out of that.

– Sam Rust

Hunters need to realise we need to meet in the middle to get a balance of healthy forest with some good stags … and some good deer, some good venison to take home to the whānau. […] Everybody’s a winner!

– DoC ranger Eddie Te Kahika on the need for culling

They tell me you’re going to hop in the river in your g-string camouflage underpants?

– Howie to Sam

She might want to join us on the hunt … as long as you realise it’s not rutting season.

– Howie, on the possibility that Spencer’s partner Sam will join them

I’ve got a few records: loudest fart in a presbyterian church in the North Island.

– Helicopter pilot Spencer Putwain