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No photos,who needs to go hunting.Just drive the highway.Two weeks ago between Tekapo and Fairlie,a stag was hit by a van,van right off.Top of Burks Pass hill,a fallow buck was hit by a rental.Rental not in good shape.Tonight just on sunset,my daughter was driver home to Fairlie.Just out of Tekapo,5 tahr were in a paddock just by the fence.Just youngish tahr she thort,they looked abit lost and hungry.
Definitely plenty of animals on the landscape these days if you keep your eyes peeled getting about the place. School bus hit a fallow buck behind our farm when we were down south, went straight through the front windscreen caused a hell of a mess blood everywhere (from the deer) and you could pick the towny kids from the country kids all the towny kids were huddled together crying while the farmer kids were pretending they had guns with sticks and posing with dead deer while they got some vans together to come pick them all up
yeah some will be talking about it for awhile others will need a night light on
On the highway 50 a stock truck smoked a fallow stag, it was still alive just so I cut its throat, I had to take the kids to town, I asked a mate to grab it and chuck it away. When he went to get it someone had scored it [emoji1787] can't imagine the damage when they skinned it.
The neighbours wrote off there Santa fe hitting a big reg last year.
This fallow got smoked buy a car last week was literally a head and legs left, we got called out to wash the road.
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yep , have seen a couple of fallow along Hwy 50 , thought to myself that they would have a fairly short shelf life
Last Monday when I seen the fresh fallow buck smashed on Burks Pass hill.It was hit in the stomach,I thort il grab the legs.Na the front half of top sides like jelly,guts ripped open.Been feeding on grass and yellow berrys. Attachment 272384
You go thru a stop sign,this what happens.
1 a week being hit in the lindis atm
Red hind got smoked on Sth Branch Ashburton bridge along Thompsons Track not long ago, only the hooves left after a few days
When you go through Otematata heading towards Oamarama up the big hill just out of town there's a red spiker in the ditch on the side of the road got smoked a few months back and is still there just a skeleton now
Heading over to lake Taupo Sun night before last seen a yearling roadside then not 5 min later 2 big hinds right on the verge on my side. Been seeing the odd one the last year so def pay a lot more attention now on that stretch of road.
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Attachment 272398 Had to wait for this one to get off the bridge
dont have to go far in the costal waiarapa, coming home about 9 from a unsucessful hunt , came round a corner & had to wait for 2 big hinds to cross the road in front of me
Common occurrence on the roads around here. A few months back a tourist from QT hit a young stag up by Florence Hill, driving a VW Passat wagon. The car was not well but he decided to bubba it and drive to Owaka for repairs. Got as far as the head of Catlins Lake and cooked the motor.
Two yearlings on main road today coming back from Invers in the usual spots south of Purakauiti. Have struck groups of up to four. Even got held up on the way to a fire call-out by an eight pointer who decided that he would just calmly trot in front of the truck, flicking gravel onto my bonnet, all the way down the bloody road. Was sorely tempted to clip him in the ass end and deal to him but he was lucky with time not on my side!!
Saw four fat little piggies in a paddock by SH1 just north of Auckland this evening. It's the second time I've seen wild pigs on that stretch of road.
I could imagine hitting a wild pig at any sort of speed would be a messy affair. Did see a decent size, very dead boar on the main road between Clydevale and Beaumont last year. You would not be a happy camper if you’d hit that thing even if it was one of the logging trucks.
Few yrs ago a big stag got hit by a truck just out of Tekapo.Stag didn't survive,truck hobbled to garage for some temporary panel beating n check over.
Years ago near Koromiko in Marlborough, I came around a blind corner on the state Highway to a hell of a blood stain across the whole road, like a slaughterhouse floor.
Apparently truck fresh off the early ferry came around the corner and hit a whole mob crossing the road, judging by the quantity of blood it got most of them
Working in the Aussie mines in the 1980's when our blasting work was ahead of the rest of the crew we would truck dump trucks. Just the small 150 Tonne variety. The waterpipe keeping the pit dry ran alongside the 10km haul road and attracted wildlife from miles around with its leaks and subsequent lush vegetation.
Those rear duals on the dump trucks turned 200kg red kangaroos into 10m long pizza bases real quick:XD:
Guy hit a deer here a few weeks back in the early hours, took the legs out and it almost punched the windscreen right in. Gave him a hell of a fright, as it dropped off the bank right in front of him and bang. I don't even think it registered as a deer before he hit it, bloody lucky nothing was coming the other way as he ended up on the wrong side of the road in the drainage cut. Made a mess of the bumper, bonnet, windscreen and pushed the roof back, photos were impressive. Haven't heard if the car is a write off yet. Didn't think to ask what he did with the animal either.
Seals.....around Kaikoura anywaysQuote:
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Coming home from Christchurch one night when I lived up there, rough seas and a high tide meant they were all over the road. Counted probably a half dozen that had been hit and barely missed a couple myself. Pretty grimQuote:
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Mate came up on the ferry one night, arrived back home near Aucks early in the morning and went to bed. Woke up about midday and couldn't figure out what the stench was outside the house... Had seal bits caught up underneath the truck (hot summer day and parked on the road). That was a pretty grim cleanup.
Just got sent wee video from my sister, this fellas just ran across the road in front of her and hopped the fence. Twizel area
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Looks like the same gene pool these two came from that I left back in 2022Quote:
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A couple of months ago a friend was heading home to Kaikoura, towing a trailer of roofing iron. A fawn stepped out, and he couldn't swerve with that load so clipped it head and had some tasty meat in the freezer.
12 point stag got cleaned up on Malaghans Road near Arrowtown a couple weeks ago....
