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

I haven't been a arvo person in a while but it was pissing down so scratched the morning hunt opted for the arvo it was bloody windy SW but sunny so opened up some country I hadn't been to in a while checked out 3 possies but probably a bit early saw 0 & not a lot of sign either but pressed on couldn't believe it but wind dropped rite off , got to a sloping type terrace area mostly beech , manuka & high tussock & could hear a couple of animals browsing only around 30 meters away I could hear the buggers chewing leaves & rustling about but then I heard a pig squeal over in the next gully so figered they mite be hogs below me not deer I ended up watching 10 deer hooning around opposite on a slip the little shits stayed there playing for an hour hinds, fawns, young stags nothing decent then a very loud bark almost made me soil my new field day special pants the critters below where deer , started heading for home as the evening wore on spooked 2 hinds & a spiker , found where the pigs where camped up not that I saw one , hit the old track that would take me to the truck 100M along & o the temptation crusty old hind , yearling & fawn 100M distance ...& im on the track I just smiled & walked on @Paddy79 would be so proud I never blasted ONE...thinking there could be a decent stag around the corner..& there wasn't !!!
had a pig walk infront of the headlights maybe 80lb & around 30 hares , Game was out tonight , of note a couple of shitty heads had lost the velvet 1 was rubbing it off on a bush , saw 1 bigger one but not worthy of being shot was still in velvet & in a different area fresh rubbing so bit of a broad spectrum but either way shits happening the old boys im thinking have already left the tops for now.

Cheers for the write up @Boaraxa sounds like a good way to spend and afternoon

Had a look at another spot in the ruahines. Only 30mins from the car, ill check it out one evening


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Originally Posted by Boaraxa

I haven't been a arvo person in a while but it was pissing down so scratched the morning hunt opted for the arvo it was bloody windy SW but sunny so opened up some country I hadn't been to in a while checked out 3 possies but probably a bit early saw 0 & not a lot of sign either but pressed on couldn't believe it but wind dropped rite off , got to a sloping type terrace area mostly beech , manuka & high tussock & could hear a couple of animals browsing only around 30 meters away I could hear the buggers chewing leaves & rustling about but then I heard a pig squeal over in the next gully so figered they mite be hogs below me not deer I ended up watching 10 deer hooning around opposite on a slip the little shits stayed there playing for an hour hinds, fawns, young stags nothing decent then a very loud bark almost made me soil my new field day special pants the critters below where deer , started heading for home as the evening wore on spooked 2 hinds & a spiker , found where the pigs where camped up not that I saw one , hit the old track that would take me to the truck 100M along & o the temptation crusty old hind , yearling & fawn 100M distance ...& im on the track I just smiled & walked on @Paddy79 would be so proud I never blasted ONE...thinking there could be a decent stag around the corner..& there wasn't !!!
had a pig walk infront of the headlights maybe 80lb & around 30 hares , Game was out tonight , of note a couple of shitty heads had lost the velvet 1 was rubbing it off on a bush , saw 1 bigger one but not worthy of being shot was still in velvet & in a different area fresh rubbing so bit of a broad spectrum but either way shits happening the old boys im thinking have already left the tops for now.

That's a good report. I have been out twice the last week and have noticed that the stags have disappeared off the fringes and grass. It happens every year. They go down deeper into the native and appear again after the roar.

Amping for Friday, heading into the mountains for four days looking for whatever we can find. Similar country to where I shot my big 10 and Jamie his 14 last year so hopefully find something else of similar quality and age.

I definitely know there is 2 old stags in there as I have let them walk in the last 3 years and they were mature when I first saw them

Originally Posted by JoshC

Amping for Friday, heading into the mountains for four days looking for whatever we can find. Similar country to where I shot my big 10 and Jamie his 14 last year so hopefully find something else of similar quality and age.

I definitely know there is 2 old stags in there as I have let them walk in the last 3 years and they were mature when I first saw them

@JoshC so this is the year then! Grace period for those two are over I guess. Good luck looking foreword to the report oh and stay safe

Originally Posted by Sideshow

@JoshC so this is the year then! Grace period for those two are over I guess. Good luck looking foreword to the report oh and stay safe

Hmm don't know. This trip will be more for a couple of mates I'm taking than myself. I'm going to take my bow instead of a rifle this time I think.

Are they that old you can take them out with your bow in the predestination zone

Starting to resurface after 2 months low key
No trophy - but not bad for Sounds
Hot off the GPRS Cam
Note the Temp - brrr

Now you can't get more handy than that right on the tack edge just back the truck up was that rear view vision cam @Sarvo better get him quick as he is in the predestination zone

13-17 March...S I K A....here...

Hard looking country @Tahr , do you find feed sit and wait or drift along glassing screes ?

Originally Posted by Boaraxa

Hard looking country @Tahr , do you find feed sit and wait or drift along glassing screes ?

I hunt the ridges and spurs moving quite a bit and glassing into the fringes and bush during the day, and night and evenings glass the best feed areas around the scree.

Over the main ridge there is some good Beech so I hunt that during the day too.

No - I don't think my Polaris Ute would get over that terrain
I got/getting too lazy for that Tahr - you doing well for a "pre" pensioner like me
Don't imagine we gunna meet up in the Cardiac Ward