Thread: Help a young hunter out - Taupo

Hey guys, well headed down to taupo friday night and camped out, got up bright and early and headed for a rd named john mcdonald rd that I had found on the doc web site. Me and my mate walked around for a few hours seeing alot of deer sign but no deer. We got back to the ute around lunch time and arranged our next move. We decided we would go all the way to Te Aroha and go up tuahu track and walk up to the Te Rereatukahia Hut and stay up there the night. So we set off and made our way to tuahu track. we got up to the hut at around 7.30 that night not seeing any sign on the way up, not they we were looking very hard, we were more focused on trying to get to the hut before dark. Sunday morning woke up 6.30 started on our way back down stopping and scanning clearing where ever we could. Saw some trees that had been stripped of bark and some big prints just off the track. just down from there we were walking then wouldnt of even been 15m away a huge crash! and off ran somthing big! then the exact same thing happend about 1km futher down the track. Deffinetly learnt some lessons on that trip! But you cant win em all!

Originally Posted by Yeti

Deffinetly learnt some lessons on that trip! But you cant win em all!

That's the important thing bro, keep doing that and eventually they'll start hitting the deck

Originally Posted by Yeti

Hey guys, well headed down to taupo friday night and camped out, got up bright and early and headed for a rd named john mcdonald rd that I had found on the doc web site. Me and my mate walked around for a few hours seeing alot of deer sign but no deer. We got back to the ute around lunch time and arranged our next move. We decided we would go all the way to Te Aroha and go up tuahu track and walk up to the Te Rereatukahia Hut and stay up there the night. So we set off and made our way to tuahu track. we got up to the hut at around 7.30 that night not seeing any sign on the way up, not they we were looking very hard, we were more focused on trying to get to the hut before dark. Sunday morning woke up 6.30 started on our way back down stopping and scanning clearing where ever we could. Saw some trees that had been stripped of bark and some big prints just off the track. just down from there we were walking then wouldnt of even been 15m away a huge crash! and off ran somthing big! then the exact same thing happend about 1km futher down the track. Deffinetly learnt some lessons on that trip! But you cant win em all!

You will find higher concentration of animals a little more south of where you went.