Help with ideas

Hey guys looking for ideas please. Mrs is coming on her first hunt with me since before having our kid and we have been quite limited on time as can only leave auckland Friday night and have to be home by Sunday arvo. I have spots but they require big walks which basically cuts hunting down to a couple hrs on the Saturday which is not worth it. Not really to sure about February hunting. Any suggestions for within 5hrs drive and sub 3hr walks? Was going to do ureweras but that has been spoiled and nzda waikato are doing a group hunt to piropiro flats.
Happy to return favors with spots for hunting or diving/fishing.
Appreciate any help guys

you could do worse than camp overnight in /beside car on clements road,hunt all day Saturday,and quick hunt Sunday morning.....

Yeah mate that is probably number 1 at the moment but I don't like that place as have terrible luck, think I have seen 1 animal in there. Shoot them at other well hunted places just something about there I cannot work out

slow down...till going too slow,then slow down more.
Ive hunted there 3 times...saw over dozen animals and shot 2 on my best trip in..one on road driving in,one with loaded packs coming out. that was 30 years ago and numbers have only gone up since then.and its one of only two places in NZ where my internal compass goes haywire.

what about up Thompsons track in Wairongomai, Te Aroha. There's a few reds up there.

Kiko road?

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Kiko road?

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Been in there once and did think about it but unsure on it so will do some reading.

Any advice on somewhere like the urchin this time of year?

If you want to do Thompson's in the Kaimai's I can give you a spot off the road to camp.

5 hour drive one way or return?

One way. Have the option of basing out of taupo or possibly rotorua/tauranga to cut the drive time down

Enjoy the armed tramp with your choice companion.

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What about flying into the Oamaru. Walk up the valley an hour or so and fly camp. Always deer up there. You have the option of walking in and flying out also.

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That was also on the list funnily enough just have to email them

What about Clements Rd but walk up the Te Iringa track to the old hut clearing and camp there. Walk to clearing is about 75min. Plenty of hunting on the north face of Te Iringa just walk another 20min up the track and drop to the right. Will be plenty of water about at present.

Nope

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I pm'd you but it doesn't look like they are getting sent . You recieved any from me ?

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Did you get my first response? If it plays up I can email.you

Helisika want me to come in first to.sign paperwork and weigh my wife and I to make sure we are under 400kg. If I am walking in via poronui will be at 5am otherwise will be too hot which I told them so waiting to hear back. There is 4mm of rain forecast on Saturday and 3.2 on Sunday so that is also a pain in the arse

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Helisika want me to come in first to.sign paperwork and weigh my wife and I to make sure we are under 400kg. If I am walking in via poronui will be at 5am otherwise will be too hot which I told them so waiting to hear back. There is 4mm of rain forecast on Saturday and 3.2 on Sunday so that is also a pain in the arse

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It is not just the "we" that make up the 400 kg, a couple of decent deer to fly out might mean the wife has to walk out.

Never been weighed on the flight out of oamaru..

Maybe between the mountain rd and the mill at Karioi on Ruapehu?

Likely going high up te iringa. Hopefully I can find an an animal for the wife to see. If nothing else it is a bit more scenic than full on bush whacking

Good hunting this time of year anywhere around Te Iringa, hunt around the pepperwood belts and open ferny guts and you should see a few.

Two less in the Kaimai's today.

Decided to hit a lower area in Clements. Went full ninja mode and managed to get the wife to be sneaky too. Beautiful stalk through some gullies and then onto a big terrace where I saw some pepperwood moving ahead behind a log. Snuck in and got to less than 30m from a pair of spikers then sent a bullet their way. Only managed one but was stoked as found a spot for the roar and got my first deer from Clements bush.
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