Check Ditch Keeling's voicemail announcement. "I'm in the middle of killing something right now," it says. "Leave a message and I'll get back to you just as soon as it's dead.

Former Australian cricketer Glenn McGrath has issued a public apology after images surfaced online of him participating in a big game hunt in Zimbabwe.

Chances are you've probably never heard of Kid Rock. He's not the kind of character who appeals here.

A man was injured after his rifle accidentally went off while he was on a hunting trip near Murchison.

Kiwis for Kiwi is running training sessions nationwide to condition hunting dogs against attacking our threatened national bird.

The parents of a young man shot dead in a hunting accident hope law changes prevent a similar tragedy happening again.

A young man spent hours in near freezing conditions after leaving a hunting group in bush near Oamaru, early this morning, drunk and with no shoes.

A deer hunter has been hospitalised after his quad bike rolled and crushed him in remote forest overnight.

Angry friends and relatives of a young Southland hunter walked out of court when it became apparent the man who mistook him for a deer wouldn't be sent to prison.

A man who shot his friend in the elbow on the first day of duck shooting season can now be named.

A man found duck hunting in a wildlife reserve has been arrested.

A string of hunting accidents is proof New Zealand's firearms laws need to be reviewed, a leading gun control advocate says.

'Some muppet has failed to determine his background,' says the Dunedin man who believes a hunter put a stray bullet in his deck.

'I've always been a shooter,' the 44-year-old said as she prepared to return to the family's shooting spot on a dammed pond at Maraekakaho today.

About 40,000 hunters will be heading to huts, ponds and rivers from tomorrow as duck shooting season begins.

A man who died after the ute he was driving in rural North Canterbury rolled and crushed him yesterday morning has been named.

A 56-year-old Tuatapere man has been charged in connection with a fatal hunting shooting in Southland earlier this month.

A25-year-old dairy farmer shot dead at the weekend was the latest victim of a spate of hunting accidents around the country.

A hunter who was shot dead by a member of another hunting party in Southland yesterday has been named as local dairy farmer Adam David Hill.

Two Hawke's Bay men are facing charges of unlawful hunting and are likely to be among the first to face tough new penalties which were introduced last November.

Search teams have this morning located a hunter who had been reported missing in Te Urewera National Park.

The year's busiest hunting season has been marred by a "disappointing'' run of four serious incidents in the first week.

A 22-year-old Hamilton man with a gunshot wound in his chest lay on the ground of a Bay of Plenty forest for four hours while his father gave him first aid and his brother ran for help.