Mainly Hunting

For 12 years Mainly Hunting Ltd has been Wellington’s premier firearm and hunting store, located only five minutes from Wellingtons CBD at the bottom of Kaiwharawhara gorge. Staffed by an experienced team of passionate hunters. We pride ourselves on the attention to detail while delivering a high level of customer service to both our local and national customers.
Mainly Hunting now boasts an in store gunsmith able to undertake a wide range of firearms work on site.
• General Gun work e.g. Re-barrelling – Re-chambering.
• Barrel treading and suppressor fitting.
• Custom suppressor and silencer making service.
• Small parts manufacturing.
• Action Accurising and glass bedding.
• Stock work.
• Glass bead blasting and Cold Bluing.
• Trigger tuning pistol and rifle.
• Custom barrel weights for pistols.
• Sight work – scope mounting / bore sighting.
• Pistol sight mounting / Slide milling
• Custom work in general.

In addition both Finance and Lay-by options are available to assist with your purchases.
Our new team


Tony as most of you will already know has taken on the roll as the store manager as well as involved with NZDA and a very keen hunter.
Moritz completed his apprenticeship in Austria with over 20 years in the trade he can offer you his experience in building & turning guns & triggers, fault finding Accurising , silencers for pistol & rifle, cold bluing & bead blasting as well.
Mike with 37 years reloading under his belt for all your reloading requirements, as well a Mountain Safety Council Firearms Trainer.
Shane (part time) is a keen hunter and the in house butcher with 18years in the trade for all your hunting knife sharping and shop sales.
Mainly Hunting is an authorized dealer of leading brands : Swarovski Optics, Steyr-Mannlicher, Sako, Tikka, Browning, Howa, Remington, Schultz & Larsen, Ruger, CZ Rifles and Fabarm, Remington, Browning, Beretta, Yildiz Shotguns. Redding reloading equipment, Pro-Shot Cleaning gear, Sierra projectiles and Niggeloh slings.
In addition we stock a wide range of unique, top quality hunting gear including new and used firearms, air-guns, ammunition, camping accessories, clothing, footwear, gun-care products, and knives as well a range of hunting related products.
Mainly Hunting in conjunction with Southland Locator Beacon Charitable Trust is able to provide Personal Locator Beacons for hire directly from our Wellington store for your convenience.