Thread: First deer ever

Very good. I can relate to that as I shot my first deer in nz from Thomson track but from the katikati side 18 years ago :-)
it took me 10 trips in the kaimai before getting that first one. Over the years I managed to get that average down to 5 trips and now days I am down to 3 trips to get an animal.
So keep going at it , and you ll gradually get better and better. And once you master the hunting in the kaimais , you ll be good pretty much anywhere else in nz.
The three essential tools for the kaimais are a gps to mark the good deer spots and find your way out,a bottle of chalk to indicate the wind direction and some secateurs .

Congrats, such a great achievement and the first of many to come. You often have to work harder for the public land ones but they all taste great!

Well done mate!
Plenty of good eating there!

Good work!!

Congrats mate, always good to get one on the ground....

Good on you. Enjoy.

good job

Nice job.

Deets on the rifle for us geeks?

Nice!

Originally Posted by 260madman

Nice job.

Deets on the rifle for us geeks?

Thanks mate. She’s a Tikka T3X .308 cut down to 16 for the bush but I haven’t managed to find anything in the bush yet. Got about 50m away from this guy and it put him straight down.