Thread: How's the recon going for the roar?

Yeah they are roaring here at home but a different story up the road where I shot that scrubber sat night. Still a few weeks away

Farm stags haven't said a peep round here yet

Farm deer been going five weeks up Waimate

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Was in the tops over the weekend, saw a older stag thrashing about, and a sad six pointer one let out a few roars. Six pointer is now at butchers.

No recon done, have been a bit busy fixing stuff on the farm here in Hawkes Bay.
The Roar has begun here, heard a few from the porch last night. which was confirmed by a mate who was here looking for a venison last night.

First wallow I have seen getting used. Seems late as it was happening in February last year. No roaring heard yet.

Too busy fishing and work but been out once and no good. But i did see signs of a stag and using a wallow for awhile .
Still, my mate heard stags roaring/moaning in two different areas around here in the last couple of days so its starting, which is about a week early than normal.

Finally got out tonight for a look, heard a couple stags just getting in to it. Got to dark. Have another look in the morning

Big day yesterday, left home at 3am and got home at 1:30am this morning. Covered a few catchments, not sure how many kms but I’m a bit tender today! Saw ok numbers of deer quite a few hinds and yearlings. Only saw 6 stags, on their own at the moment, wallowing and wrecking trees but didn’t hear any roaring. Saw one really old boy, 11-12 pointer, he was already with a group of hinds as I’d expect a stag of that age to be. Definitely a cool stag to shoot but conditions weren’t right so will go back another day for a look












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We must have walked passed each other Josh c sounds about the same trip anyway . we also seen a lot of hinds and yearlings with no stags in tow . The mature and only stag we seen wasn’t interested in the ladies ,no roars heard APNP

niiice

Greetings All,
A series of unfortunate events has severely curtailed my preparation let alone scouting for the roar. The weather over spring and summer has been wet, very wet over summer. Gabrielle has done a number on our local roads and my long planned trip to Makino has been torpedoed (three road closures on the way to the road end). The weather has finally settled, at least for now and we have moved from sodden to damp. The Taihape road is now open as far as Lawrence Road, about 35 km from home, so this morning I set of for a little forest bathing sans rifle in Blowhard Bush. A couple of hours easy trundle including visits from the local NI Robin population resulted in a much happier chap. I even spotted some deer sign. Hopefully some improvement in the roads will result in a trip up Kuri Hill in the near future.
Regards Grandpamac.
PS. The Kawekas are still inaccessible from the HB side but Kuripapango can still be reached from the Taihape side.

Northern Tararuas still quiet-heading into Mid Ruahines tomorrow morning for a listen will report back.

Had two stags going well in the Catlins bush today.


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Went hunting wednesday local, heard 2 stags. got within60m of the first one, pushing a hind up the hill. Saw bit of it thru the rubbish but had no clean shot.
Wind stuffed it for me thou and that one was gone.
Second one wind changed on me and it smelt me as i was heading down thur the native.
Nice 8 pointer, was running across in front of me, had the crosshairs on it a number of times, nearly pulled the trigger twice but just wasnt the right shot etc so that one was a lucky one.
Wallow well used that morning, might have another go on the weekend