Thread: 2016 Roar help

How many hinds do you usually encounter?
Is it a possibility of a lot of hinds around and the stags not having to work very hard to get his girls. Resulting in poor roaring?

Originally Posted by Shootm

How many hinds do you usually encounter?
Is it a possibility of a lot of hinds around and the stags not having to work very hard to get his girls. Resulting in poor roaring?

Very little hinds around. Not huge numbers of deer around the areas I hunt. Game cam picks up more stags than hinds, so I would of thought they be roaring there heads off but no . The 10 pointer I shot in 2014 on april 21, saw him april 9th thou only had one hind with him. Looking back on my records it seems all the stags I have heard roaring have been between March 21th to March 28th so I think for at least the last two years they start quite early here then shut up for all of april.

Originally Posted by deer243

Very little hinds around. Not huge numbers of deer around the areas I hunt. Game cam picks up more stags than hinds, so I would of thought they be roaring there heads off but no . The 10 pointer I shot in 2014 on april 21, saw him april 9th thou only had one hind with him. Looking back on my records it seems all the stags I have heard roaring have been between March 21th to March 28th so I think for at least the last two years they start quite early here then shut up for all of april.

Sounds like hunt that spot late March then head further a field and catch the rest of the roar somewhere else in early April. Two bites of the cherry

[QUOTE=deer243;427888]Very little hinds around. Not huge numbers of deer around the areas I hunt.

the answers in that line there,if the hinds are coming on season or are in season then the stags will roar to keep competitors at bay. once the hinds in the area have been serviced then the stag will keep walking to find more hinds.think of it this way, if you can only get a root three weeks a year are you going to wait around on someone to say, yes help yourself, or are you going to keep walking looking for that someone that says "bust your balls big boy". if they aren't roaring then carry on looking for the hind areas. you should be doing this thou out the year, hinds generally stay in the one area ( unless pushed) its the stags that do the walking and searching looking for some "girls"

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Originally Posted by deer243

Very little hinds around. Not huge numbers of deer around the areas I hunt.

the answers in that line there,if the hinds are coming on season or are in season then the stags will roar to keep competitors at bay. once the hinds in the area have been serviced then the stag will keep walking to find more hinds.think of it this way, if you can only get a root three weeks a year are you going to wait around on someone to say, yes help yourself, or are you going to keep walking looking for that someone that says "bust your balls big boy". if they aren't roaring then carry on looking for the hind areas. you should be doing this thou out the year, hinds generally stay in the one area ( unless pushed) its the stags that do the walking and searching looking for some "girls"

Sounds good advice, but if I look at that and compare it to a area I hunted in 2014 im not sure if that how it is. One area I used to hunt was stuffed with a 1080drop, very little sign of animals around after that and started not to hunt it anymore as was a waste of time.
After a couple of summer missions in there and no sign I went back for old time sake in march(2014), and found sign of a couple or 3 stags but little else, but they were good stags. Nothing was roaring, tried the graf caller, nothing, went back the week later, nothing.
On april the 9th went back again and heard a stag roaring, roared it in, walked a few feet past me but it was a very scrubby 4 pointer so let it be. Further up the hill I saw the mark of a big stag ive seen the same marks in march, im sure it waS THE SAME one then I saw him. Only saw half his body for a shot, waited but he walked of and got no shot and he had one hind with him, a smaller hind at that.
Went back again week later and saw his mark and another bigger mark that I also saw in early march but little sign of other deer apart from a lone hind.
On april the 21 I went back and took a forum member for a hunt from up north (other forum) and did a roar, the stag I was chasing came out of a gut and I shot a nice ten pointer.(still had one hind with him)
In end of april took my cousin to look for the bigger mark that was hanging around and walked within 6 feet from him (was hidden).
Was a big nine , he got away. I hunted that stag for the next 6 weeks or so, saw marks now and again , I got him in the end after a few trips in.

Moral was, there was very little deer sign in there, but clearly was sign from early march right though of at least 3 different stags...two of those stags I ended up getting (2 good ones )and of cause could of shot the scrubby 4 as well which could have well been the other stag sign that I kept seeing.
Never saw any other deer apart from one hind that was with the ten, saw little sign of much other deer at all but those two big stags stayed in that area with little hinds all roar and after until I shot both of them..
Big area, big country so why didn't they move on in a area that had clearly been destroyed by 1080 and numbers reduced to the point it was 8 hour days to find any marks?
(apart from of cause the two big stags and one or two others that stayed in the area right though, only reason I kept going back as fresh sign of good stags does that)