good weekend up the kawekas

some flooded rivers, some awesome sun, some terrible wind and rain. constant off and on but it led to the deer presenting themselves when the sun hit.
12 deer shot, 7 recovered, some of the unfound were recorderd on camera and dropped on the spot, but still unable to find them due to the terrain. Sad, but some times it is what it is.
got 5 guys, who hadnt shot sika before onto their first sikas - all of theirs were recoverable. Stages had all dropped, accidently took 2 of them as they had Just dropped with blood around the peds.

once the pics come through ill pop a few up! the sika didnt have much of a pattern to height etc. saw a couple low mid day one day, and the others were mid height during the day. Next day they were all high up, could have been the microstorm climate we were in!

Geez, I hope you left me a couple, I’m heading in next week!

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Originally Posted by Larskramer

some flooded rivers, some awesome sun, some terrible wind and rain. constant off and on but it led to the deer presenting themselves when the sun hit.
12 deer shot, 7 recovered, some of the unfound were recorderd on camera and dropped on the spot, but still unable to find them due to the terrain. Sad, but some times it is what it is.
got 5 guys, who hadnt shot sika before onto their first sikas - all of theirs were recoverable. Stages had all dropped, accidently took 2 of them as they had Just dropped with blood around the peds.

once the pics come through ill pop a few up! the sika didnt have much of a pattern to height etc. saw a couple low mid day one day, and the others were mid height during the day. Next day they were all high up, could have been the microstorm climate we were in!

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Good on ya! Its gotta be done. Its the 2020's, not the 1980's

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Originally Posted by Larskramer

some flooded rivers, some awesome sun, some terrible wind and rain. constant off and on but it led to the deer presenting themselves when the sun hit.
12 deer shot, 7 recovered, some of the unfound were recorderd on camera and dropped on the spot, but still unable to find them due to the terrain. Sad, but some times it is what it is.
got 5 guys, who hadnt shot sika before onto their first sikas - all of theirs were recoverable. Stages had all dropped, accidently took 2 of them as they had Just dropped with blood around the peds.

once the pics come through ill pop a few up! the sika didnt have much of a pattern to height etc. saw a couple low mid day one day, and the others were mid height during the day. Next day they were all high up, could have been the microstorm climate we were in!

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would have seen over 40 from thursday arvo to monday morning mate! few big bodies animals, left them for the roar ;)

Hope yis were not shooting from the carpark again and respecting other park user's .

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Hope yis were not shooting from the carpark again and respecting other park user's .

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cool story bro, but of course we were. Why wouldnt we ? - in all honesty, no. we didnt. That happened that once time, when we were locked in the road end due the the fords being closed from flooding. only one in there, and a few wanted to check zeros on a face 300m away.

Which deer farm were you on again??

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Which deer farm were you on again??

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haha no deer farm, all public land up makino/middle hut area, get off the track and go for it!

I’m surprised the numbers were that high post 1080 drop!

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I’m surprised the numbers were that high post 1080 drop!

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plenty about, and also good condition. none we got looked at all sick etc.

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I’m surprised the numbers were that high post 1080 drop!

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Repellent

The repellent was washed off within the first few days of the drop, fine spell for 10 days and then consistent big rain for well over a week, perfect storm for high deer fatalities.

On the way up to Makino hut mid October there was a dead stag just off the track that had obviously succumbed to the poison, I was with a DOC guy at the time who said it would be sampled to confirm, also a dead deer floating down the river and getting stuck at the ford on the drive in.

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The repellent was washed off within the first few days of the drop, fine spell for 10 days and then consistent big rain for well over a week, perfect storm for high deer fatalities.

On the way up to Makino hut mid October there was a dead stag just off the track that had obviously succumbed to the poison, I was with a DOC guy at the time who said it would be sampled to confirm, also a dead deer floating down the river and getting stuck at the ford on the drive in.

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We found that dead stag just off the track, had a bit of rib blown out. Looks like a shot that didnt drop him on the spot. We took the head as he was a character head with a twisted face! hes on my mates garage walll now, named cletuz.

Different stag, this one was fully intact

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Different stag, this one was fully intact

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I dunno, about half way from the bottom upto the clay pan at the top, on the left hand side about 2m off the track. it was bones only when we found it, and 1x rib bone had a blow out.

Yep that's the same spot alright, a little 4 pointer?
Fully intact when we saw him October 15th, actually didn't look long dead.

5 deer not recovered is pretty piss poor,numbers or not should be teaching the newbies only take recoverable animals

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5 deer not recovered is pretty piss poor,numbers or not should be teaching the newbies only take recoverable animals

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The Video that was on YouTube of a previous trip was the worst form I’ve ever seen. Multiple laws broken and then thick enough to post it on the net.

saw them drop, saw them lieing there. and had it recorded, but getting to the position of where it was was a nightmare, searching for hours at each location.