Thread: Help a young hunter out - Taupo

Good one Yeti. Put in the foot work and you will eventually work out where the deer are and aren't. Best to use as much daylight as possible and just go to one spot for a weekend and work it hard then driving around.

Well done Yeti, thats the spirit mate, its like buying a lotto ticket when you start out, find a couple of places you like the look off and make that 'your' hunting place, look for sign, game trails and where the buggers will feed.......do that instead of hitting a new, different area every time you go out.......you will soon start to find animals and start getting results........good luck both of yer........

You have found them so go back and plan a stalk in the area using the wind to your advantage and be prepared to change plan if the wind changes.

Originally Posted by Pengy

Sounds like you stumbled on your cuzzys (bigfoot) homeground. Now to find the deer.
There are no deer in the Kaimais

At the rate animals are being shot lately in the Kaimai's, you might be right...I know of five taken in the last week.

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.