Thread: Chopper trip

Gidday all with the roar fast approaching ,im looking at doing a fly in trip for a change.I have a couple of areas in mind providing helicopters can land there,as they seem to be able to only land at certain spots around southland i would rather not land at any huts but i might not be in luck. The areas I have In mind are the upper windley hut (eyres) and Whare Creek Hut (takis) i have tryed to just get droped of into the middle nowhere but they reaken they cant land unfortunately .My main goal is to get as far away from foot traffic as possible into areas with reasonable deer numbers more looking for plenty of roar action than shooting bone  my question is am I waisting my time in either area or am I best to look else where? I've heard the choppers have been hammering the eyres over the past cheers

Got a goodie for ya. East of te Anau is a long valley(forgot the name) it flows from a saddle in the east Ellington, you're able to land in the saddle as it's just outside the no fly zone. This valley is between the Anau downs and mavora lakes. Wicked spot, either camp down towards the bush or halfway easy country to get around. Let us know how you go.

Cheers mate I know the exact spot your talking about just a bit concerned ill run into foot traffic.ill let you no if i head up there in the chopper. I was in there last year on foot a little lower down the valley though seemed to be a hell of alot of people in and out of that valley.bumped into 2 different hunters in the bush no shortage of deer that's for sure

Originally Posted by SmokeyJason

Got a goodie for ya. East of te Anau is a long valley(forgot the name) it flows from a saddle in the east Ellington, you're able to land in the saddle as it's just outside the no fly zone. This valley is between the Anau downs and mavora lakes. Wicked spot, either camp down towards the bush or halfway easy country to get around. Let us know how you go.

45yrs ago my uncle use to manage a big doc farm in there on the bush edges.His 30 06 was his favourite toy.

In that case stay up in the heads.

Originally Posted by SmokeyJason

Got a goodie for ya. East of te Anau is a long valley(forgot the name) it flows from a saddle in the east Ellington, you're able to land in the saddle as it's just outside the no fly zone. This valley is between the Anau downs and mavora lakes. Wicked spot, either camp down towards the bush or halfway easy country to get around. Let us know how you go.

Used to hunt that valley a fair bit. Plenty of traffic through there as reasonably easy walk in from Milford Rd or Mavora lakes. Last roar trip I did in there bumped into multiple different parties in the mid-upper reaches. Gorgeous country and no shortage of animals.

If it were me I'd keep with the eyres, plenty of animals about just let the binos do the walking