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

Originally Posted by chris-b

3 days out in a block and only roaring one evening over the fence , was pretty warm at 21-23c each day..... might have had something to do with it?
On the drive home yesterday the deer farm just south of 'kune was full of stags (hummels? no antlers), stopped for a watch and listen. They were going nuts, a non-stop barrage of roars, was pretty cool to prctice the technique on and get them all pissed off

Antlers are cut in velvet to sell. 'Hummels' I believe are stags without testicals, or testicals that don't work etc. wont grow antlers. And normally they are big animals, like a steer bull I guess

Originally Posted by chris-b

3 days out in a block and only roaring one evening over the fence , was pretty warm at 21-23c each day..... might have had something to do with it?
On the drive home yesterday the deer farm just south of 'kune was full of stags (hummels? no antlers), stopped for a watch and listen. They were going nuts, a non-stop barrage of roars, was pretty cool to prctice the technique on and get them all pissed off

Roaring activity has nothing to do with temperature - its all to do with hinds in oestrus (cycling) this is triggered by the photoperiod - shorter days and in particular shorter evenings and twilight are the main triggers -- if a hind is not in oestrus - they wont roar - that's why some days they go ballistic - the next day reduced or even no roaring
weather conditions do play a part in that heavy rain and wind inhibit roaring - the best conditions are still/little wind as that these are the most effective conditions for sound carriage - hence roaring more prevalent - frosty conditions provide these factors -
temperature tho aint one of them.... old wives tale which seems to be perpetuated over the years...

It is easy to see the correlation to the myth in what you say though. Frosty conditions provide the best conditions hence roaring is more prevalent (I know I am quoting out of syntax). It is not hard to see how the lesser informed jumped to the conclusion that cold temperatures ( a by product of frosts) triggers the roar.

Yup totally agree that temp has nothing to do with active stags but do find the colder the day, the longer they will stay active.

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Can you explain why they would roar for two or three days and then all of a sudden stop? Or why they could roar a few consecutive day at roughly the same time of the day ?

hind cycling, possibly getting up to feed at that time of day.

Recon good for the 2017 roar.
Just spent 4 days on the Westcoast checking out the stags while they are still feeding up big time.
Saw 10+ multi pointers and 3 or 4 of them were pretty bloody good.
This one was watched at 240m for ages and was eating like his life depended on it.
Now just have to hope he can be found again once hard and in the roar.

Originally Posted by akaroa1

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Recon good for the 2017 roar.
Just spent 4 days on the Westcoast checking out the stags while they are still feeding up big time.
Saw 10+ multi pointers and 3 or 4 of them were pretty bloody good.
This one was watched at 240m for ages and was eating like his life depended on it.
Now just have to hope he can be found again once hard and in the roar.

That's awesome. Great photo.


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Great photo Akaroa1.

Just seeing the return of this thread gets me excited

I seen a good animal last week.
Around 35 long and looked to be wide. Had 14 even but undeveloped points.

He has so many catchments with in a short jaunt for him I wouldn't know where to start in the roar if he manages to last that long. Some Bozo will shoot him in a spotlight knowing my luck. Nice to see him all the same but I doubt I will again.

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Originally Posted by Pointer

Great photo Akaroa1.

Just seeing the return of this thread gets me excited

We will check out my new handy spot when we get a chance after all this festive silliness

Always keen. Got a spot in the 'kumaras thats due for inspection around April too, just needs a a whirly bird to get in there. The other musketeer is keen, you?

R93 do you find the stags in your spot move far from their summer range? I hunt a spot that is completely devoid of mature stags throughout the year, but come the roar it's chocka. How does it work down your way?

I went for an overnighter last week to a new spot , steep rocky dry ugly face didn't see anything on our side first evening then in the morning 4 spikers 4 guts away somehow they gave us the slip think 1 got upset at a rock tumbling down the hill so we carried on round a big dogleg in the valley it opend up wasn't quite as ugly & spotted a few mobs around 30 deer mostly all hinds odd fawn with them few smaller stags crossing over a saddle it was supposed to get to 27 degree's so we figered best pic 1 a yearling hind drew the short straw , 7 gunshots latter we managed to fell the poor beast it was a bit further away than we thought after the smoke had cleared I looked across the valley to see a big stag he looked pretty well formed nice big beams , tops looked pretty good two heading way up a tussock face got me thinking mite have to chopper in in the roar guess if the hinds are there he will be 2.

Originally Posted by Pointer

Always keen. Got a spot in the 'kumaras thats due for inspection around April too, just needs a a whirly bird to get in there. The other musketeer is keen, you?

R93 do you find the stags in your spot move far from their summer range? I hunt a spot that is completely devoid of mature stags throughout the year, but come the roar it's chocka. How does it work down your way?

Yeah could be. Let me know the dets

Originally Posted by akaroa1

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Recon good for the 2017 roar.
Just spent 4 days on the Westcoast checking out the stags while they are still feeding up big time.
Saw 10+ multi pointers and 3 or 4 of them were pretty bloody good.
This one was watched at 240m for ages and was eating like his life depended on it.
Now just have to hope he can be found again once hard and in the roar.

Hey akaroa1 thanks for revving this thread
Hope they stick around for you good luck and keep us all posted