EP28: South Pacific Safaris (Outfitter Spotlight)

Let's Go Guided · Oct 13, 2026 · 57m

James Pinfold shot his first red deer at 9, spent his teens and early twenties rodeoing, then came home to guide hunts on New Zealand’s South Island.

Robbie sits down with James of South Pacific Safaris, an operation two hours north of Christchurch on the east coast, where the hunting country runs from the mountains down to the ocean. James’s then girlfriend’s parents had just bought the business. He came back to help them through one transition season and is still there eight or nine years later.

James covers the species the operation hunts and how each one is accessed. Red stag, fallow…