But the four are remaining tight-lipped about the secret to their success.
"We couldn't possibly tell you the secrets, other than to say, `don't stop hunting until the clock stops'," Mr Crawford said yesterday .
"We saw the big one at the last minute."
The team won the trophy for the heaviest bag of three - boar (60kg), red stag (112kg) and fallow buck (44kg) - in the competition.
Hunters came from as far away as the Coromandel Peninsula for the competition, which attracted 64 teams, the largest number in the competition's history.
Results. - Boars: Average weight, Marty van Turnout and John McKinlay (54kg); heaviest, Shane Dobson (87kg); best jaw, Shane Dobson.
Stags: Heaviest red stag, Jim Crawford, Jock Martin, Darrell Cornish, Dave Brydie and Stu Moore (112kg).
Fallow buck: Heaviest, Clayton Peters, Glen Duncan, Jason Gunion (52kg); best head, Clayton Peters.
