Thread: Can you help?

Originally Posted by bigfish

Best shoot your first deer the hard way and save the easy stuff for later. If you really want to shoot a deer why on earth would you shoot a goat and leave it?

I didnt actually shoot the goat i could have put one rite between the eyes with the way he was looking at me and were i was sitting but left him to carry on as that wasnt what i was after. As for easy from what if seen on google maps ect the next block i try i wouldnt say easy but easier than the last block but i havent givin up on that block either.

Originally Posted by muzza

I thought you were after deer , not neutered sheep ...

Good luck EVILWAYZ, keep us posted how you go. As they say, nothing is for free, and a lot of public land that holds deer in the north island involves bush hunting - you will need to work for them as opposed to hunting the 'fallow farms'. Especially the public land around wangas with fallow, most of that is quite crappy.
It takes a while to learn, and I don't profess to be any kind of expert myself, but once you can hunt the bush properly it is a skill that will feed your family for life, you will be pulling deer out of places that farm edge/river flat/pine block hunters could only dream of.

Originally Posted by Pointer

Good luck EVILWAYZ, keep us posted how you go. As they say, nothing is for free, and a lot of public land that holds deer in the north island involves bush hunting - you will need to work for them as opposed to hunting the 'fallow farms'. Especially the public land around wangas with fallow, most of that is quite crappy.
It takes a while to learn, and I don't profess to be any kind of expert myself, but once you can hunt the bush properly it is a skill that will feed your family for life, you will be pulling deer out of places that farm edge/river flat/pine block hunters could only dream of.

Thanks heaps for the words of wisdom pointer its good to now that there are fellow hunters out there wiling to help the newbies like myself. will definitly keep you posted and will have pics of my first when i get lucky.

Well guys been a long time coming partly due to I don't get to get out much but I finally bagged my first deer a couple of weeks ago Im stoked and to make it even better tho no trophy it was a buck 7 points and off good size shot downhill at around 180m just above the shoulder longest shot Ive done tho not perfectly placed he went down were he stood and tastes great.

Congrats on getting your first deer

Well done:thumbup:

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Shot on your first deer. You always remember the first like it was yesterday. Ugly head (the deer that is) but some good eating hopefully.

Good stuff! Cant wait for my first!

yeah it is an ugly head tho not many can say they got a buck as their first. And yes he tastes good

Well done on the fallow Evilwayz. Doesn't matter what the head looks like. It is what the back end tastes like that is important.

to true rushy I have no intention of being a trophy hunter im in it to put meat on the table and to just get out there and enjoy it

Good on you Brother!.Well done and you scored your first animal on DOc land mate.

cheers guys but wasnt doc land this time a mate took me in to a forestry block well he said it was more like a gorse plantation with a few pines in it lol

Originally Posted by EVILWAYZ

cheers guys but wasnt doc land this time a mate took me in to a forestry block well he said it was more like a gorse plantation with a few pines in it lol

Ahh ok sweet close enough gorse is shit house to hunt thru so well done any way mate.

Originally Posted by Neckshot

Ahh ok sweet close enough gorse is shit house to hunt thru so well done any way mate.

Lol shit house is right still got the lil red dots all over my legs and pulling the odd one out of my hands and its 3 weeks ago today but we were determined to get him nothing was getting in the way. All in all was a good hunt even the weather played its part and didn't start raining until we were getting back in the Ute all in all I think it was only like 3 maybe 4 hours from getting in the Ute in the morning to getting back to my mates with the deer on the back. Spooked one before we found this guy didn't see it thru the overgrown gorse but sounded heavy on its feet as it bailed down hill