The Venison Hunters | Mike Bennett | Second Hand Book | Fair Condition | Writing on front page
The rocketing price of export venison in the sixties meant that a man could make a good living hunting deer. If he was tough enough. Light aircraft and even jetboats were pressed into service, enabling men to exploit the remotest back country, teeming with deer. Mike Bennet began as a government deer culler, then went into business on his own as a meat hunter. A stint as a helicopter shooter with a game-recovery firm followed. Then he bought his own Piper Cub aircraft, flying deep into the deep-rich hinterland of the Haast as a private meat hunter.