Thread: Early Winter hunt

Not a bad first hour.

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Need a bigger ute or at least a canopy with more room. Chainsaw must be a quick way to quarter animals, leave a bit of a mess though

Any kind of a story to go with the pics?

Originally Posted by 223nut

Need a bigger ute or at least a canopy with more room. Chainsaw must be a quick way to quarter animals, leave a bit of a mess though

3 was enough for me mate.... was very intense hour, first one was the 8 pointer, then ten mins later my hunting buddy hit one while I was dressing mine, packed the two to the track across the river and another one appeared on the river so I got a second... epic morning !!

Originally Posted by 308

Any kind of a story to go with the pics?

Sure,
We arrived at hut Friday Afternoon, after the usual toss the coin to see who gets the prime bunk and unpack, we headed out for a evening stalk, loads of sign but the weather was against us, headed back to the hut.
We got up at 4 am, coffee, and kitted up, neither of us slept well. We knew the weather was set to break so the deer will be out,
Walked about 2 Ks from the hut down stream and crossed the river, sun was starting to light the tops, the wind sorted I sneaked up a bank onto the flats, took about 15 steps in and something caught my eye, I thought in the darkness it was ferns blowing but soon realiased the fern fronds were antlers! Heart racing, I had no shot, I rested against a manauka and watched it feed, decided to give it a whistle and it lifted its head, looked left, dropped it, clean neck shot atabout 35-40 meters, how easy was that!
My mate carried on while I dressed the stag, 5-10 mins later... boom, he had one, nice spiker! we packed the animals back over river to the track.
After collecting animals we started back to hut and a my mate yelled out STAG! in the river... I lept out and ran to the bank with rifle, lined up and took a shot, missed... was leading it to much.... watched the stag nearly leap the river in one go, it stopped on bush line just over 100 meters away ( we ranged it afterwards), I’d loose it if it went in, had no side shot so I went for head, I know my rifle is 2” high at 100 so took a guess, pink mist and the stag dropped on the spot, head shot.
That’s all within about 1:20 from first to third.. thats the short version...

Good on ya

Awesome mate, well done....

very tidy effort.....looks like you have great taste in saws along with knives. enjoy the vennison. like the hand wash station with soap in picture,just so Mrs knows you keeping it clean LOL.

First one



Jack the knife shot LOL love this knife, about to do a run of 50 as steel is here !!


Head shot deer on river.

Originally Posted by Micky Duck

very tidy effort.....looks like you have great taste in saws along with knives. enjoy the vennison. like the hand wash station with soap in picture,just so Mrs knows you keeping it clean LOL.

That’s the shower mate.... a bit nippy this time of year!

Awesome bro, hope to get some of that action soon!

Gotta love it when it all goes to plan, well Done.

Got to be happy with that effort- 3 deer on the ground in quick time and close to the hut. Nice open looking country - what part of the country?

Yeah Nga....!!! what part of the country did this allegedly occur....!!!! Anyway well done...that 8 looks pretty good too....

Originally Posted by BruceY

Yeah Nga....!!! what part of the country did this allegedly occur....!!!! Anyway well done...that 8 looks pretty good too....

Private land and hut mate, not the usual for here, normally it’s a pretty hard day stalking, this day was gentleman’s hunting, just one of those rare days, right time right place.