Thread: After advice on winter hunting red stags (north island)

Hi Team,

There is a reasonably small native gully not too far from home where I have spent a fair bit of time over the last 6 years. For 6 long years I have also had game cameras in the area just quietly watching the movements of the resident red deer, not really trying to track their movements to the second so that I can get one step ahead and go on a killing spree but rather just fascinated by their comings and goings. 2 years ago a large mature stag entered the photos, seemed to have won over the hinds off a younger local stag, but haven't seen him for a while? he's either gone to deer heaven or got a nice harem of hinds somewhere else.

Anyway long story short, one of the "photographed" stags this year is looking pretty good to me. Wouldn't mind trying to catch up with him over winter. I've been doing a fair bit of reading on winter hunting stags but it usually goes something like " finding the stags up on the tussock tops feeding up" there ain't no tussock tops around here, its straight bush, like 1980's porno magazine bush, thick n dark, all shapes and sizes bush ,

I know where he hangs out during the roar but I don't know where he goes after that. Any advice or tips on where, when, and how I should go about tracking this bugger down?

Thanks in Advance