Thread: Forgotten Highway

That on the forgotten highway? wild if so

Originally Posted by bumblefoot

@Barry the hunter I nearly hit a fallow spiker when it shot across the road just in front of the car, just on dark out there last year. Not much fun hitting the brakes on a gravel road! It very nearly became a hood ornament! And I very nearly had a badly damaged car! I only missed it by inches

I took this pic just off the State Highway about 15-ish years ago.... There were 28 (that I could count) in the mob

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Without being too specific, roughly where was that pic taken, @bumblefoot?

I was under the impression that the deer population in that part of the country is a relatively recent phenomenon? Certainly didn't see any when kicking around the likes of Aotuhia, Moeroa/Omoana, Waitotara in the 1970's.

Originally Posted by Maxx

Without being too specific, roughly where was that pic taken, @bumblefoot?

I was under the impression that the deer population in that part of the country is a relatively recent phenomenon? Certainly didn't see any when kicking around the likes of Aotuhia, Moeroa/Omoana, Waitotara in the 1970's.

very different now Aotuhia scattered pop and low numbers but those other areas heaps especially Waitotara some of Waitotara just to high

the foundations of that herd likely arrived in a horse float behind a hunters car , back in the day.

Originally Posted by sportco62

the foundations of that herd likely arrived in a horse float behind a hunters car , back in the day.

yup a lot did and still do - not sure about the Waitotara herd fallow have been there for a long time - just hope that those releasing get some decent blood lines cause the herd in there are a very poor example of a fallow

I watched video of about 40 jumping out of big trailer in bottom of ruatiti valley,into poorly fenced "safari farm", LOOONG before any had got that far from wanganui river side....and the rest as they say is history

Used to shoot goats up on Larsens in the 70's, when the freezing works would take them for 25 cents a kg. Always saw a few Fallow up on their property. The Ahuahuiti always had more.

Greetings,
Drove through there around 1976. There were settlements of little railway pre-cut houses just like the ones around the corner from where we lived. I often have wondered what became of them.
GPM.

Originally Posted by grandpamac

Greetings,
Drove through there around 1976. There were settlements of little railway pre-cut houses just like the ones around the corner from where we lived. I often have wondered what became of them.
GPM.

some still around - my partners Uncle moved one into Wanga from just up the road over the bridge - rolled it into town on old telephone poles - its still there last house on left before the bridge but has verandah now added - he had the garage for years and is buried out at Wanga down by the rugby ground- still a few left at Tangarakau

Originally Posted by Maxx

Without being too specific, roughly where was that pic taken, @bumblefoot? I was under the impression that the deer population in that part of the country is a relatively recent phenomenon? Certainly didn't see any when kicking around the likes of Aotuhia, Moeroa/Omoana, Waitotara in the 1970's.

@Maxx In respect to the landowner, that's about as specific as I'd like to be. Cheers

Originally Posted by XR500

Used to shoot goats up on Larsens in the 70's, when the freezing works would take them for 25 cents a kg. Always saw a few Fallow up on their property. The Ahuahuiti always had more.

Interesting how time can affect one’s memory. Recall going through Larsens to Pokeka around 1975 ( and a number of walks up to Trains/Tahupo about the same time) and understood that there were basically no deer ( the odd outrider excepted) in that locale.

ha do a quad trip from front of Larsen's out to the the old whare where Pokeka enters the main bush and in that trip you will see likely 50 + maybe more but trophy quality is simply not there

My Grandson and his wife farm on the highway, and she shot a glorious 14 point red just a few metres from their house within the last 3 years...it would score pretty well on the Douglas.....stil quite a few around in 2024....just saying....