Thread: Bloody hell !

cause you mentioned fallow

Suit yourself then. Shrug.

Originally Posted by Woody

Don't think so mate., except on deer farms.

They’re around mainly... mainly land locked with no access and abandoned farms reverted back to scrub/native


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Woody mate, hate to break the news but micky d is right... I’m central N Island and I see mixed mobs of deer, 20-30 animals, hinds, spikers and a couple of good stags, sometimes more, sometimes less, on a very regular basis.

Not farmed deer, not on farms, but near farms or ex-farms now regenerating into scrub and native for the bees....totally 100% free ranging wild as red skins for the most part but also shit loads of fallow lower down. And I can tell you for a fact those sika are in places you wouldn’t imagine as well. There’s heaps of deer on DOC land but bloody hard to get to and also hard for the WARO boys. I flew with the honey guys last summer on several jobs across a broad area of the CNI, far out there were bloody thousands of deer.

I work in two main regions, either side of the island, its the same in both areas. And I can think of a third area in the North Island that I visit once a year that is teeming with deer but you’ve got to be pretty keen to get in there. But make the effort and you’ll be stoked you did. Not being flippant, just reckon if someone hasn’t found them yet, they’re not getting out and about enough.

Leave the wife and kids at home, go on a road trip for a week, just follow your nose. Its only a small place the CNI but there’s some very cool remote spots. Good manners and a sensible looking non-bling ute go a long way to making friends. Not being all kitted up in brand new Kuiu or digi camo Hunters Element also helps...

A mate and the crew have just harvested 500 from 5 blocks top of south, all for export.
My only comment is the export part: charity begins at home but for this red tape.
Prefer this any day to dropping poison and leaving them to rot into nothingness.

Originally Posted by Micky Duck

there ARE numbers of deer like that in the central north island...always has been and always will be.

I hunt doc land central north island & have seen mobs of 20 or so of red & fallow deer & every time I go in there I take a lest one

Not the biggest mob Ive seen in the last ten year while hunting different places

Holy shit I've been hunting in the wrong place haha.

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sat back watching over a farm few years back and counted over 150 follow. I know since then they have had a chopper in and have had a big cull and left them on the ground to rot. big bucks to fawns. Want even let locals on that place.

Originally Posted by bigbear

sat back watching over a farm few years back and counted over 150 follow. I know since then they have had a chopper in and have had a big cull and left them on the ground to rot. big bucks to fawns. Want even let locals on that place.

Seems moronic to let them for when you could sell them...

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This guy is real different, they had a chopper back in last year and meat recover over a hundred reds.

Originally Posted by bigbear

Not the biggest mob Ive seen in the last ten year while hunting different placesAttachment 93586

Well...they’re healthy looking ..


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Originally Posted by Russian 22.

Seems moronic to let them for when you could sell them...

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When the price is down, by the time they are shot, recovered, processed & inspected the return is nearly zero or less, Fallow don't weigh much.

Originally Posted by Kiwi Greg

When the price is down, by the time they are shot, recovered, processed & inspected the return is nearly zero or less, Fallow don't weigh much.

Makes sense.

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You and me both @Russian .22