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

Great photo, looks like a nice eater also.
I cannot wait to see my typical spindly spiker walk in again acting like a 14.


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They will be there somewhere as there are very high hind numbers in the area.
I have been going there for a few weeks a year for 10 years now and refrained from shooting a single female deer.
Also never shot a really decent stag myself there ( put some others onto them ) in all that time, but have shot a few spikers and culled out some very munted red stags as mercy killings to improve the genetics.
So one day maybe I will pick up something special there.

With that approach I'm sure you will good luck

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?

I have only run into stags in the rut that I have seen in the late summer that do not have to travel far for their needs.
Otherwise it seems a lottery.

Major river valleys etc they can move anywhere and seem to travel a fair distance.
I seen one a few years ago from the machine in the Haast river valley. He was definitely a shooter.
Looked for him on foot before, during and after the roar.
Never seen him until around the same time the following year out of the machine again. 😆

I try to not do any recon until mid to late March.
Never had any real luck doing it any earlier.
I have even seen stags that you would think be dominant get moved off by smaller stags early in the Rut.

I rather search areas I know have good genetics and read the sign as best I can.





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Some work to do here!


That's better girl!!

She is really getting into it Gibo. Look at the scrunched up toes.

Originally Posted by Rushy

She is really getting into it Gibo. Look at the scrunched up toes.

The video is quite amusing

Originally Posted by Gibo

The video is quite amusing

Post a clip from it.

How?

Originally Posted by Gibo

How?

Ha ha ha ha you are baking that question of me Gibo? I am the anti geek. Ask someone else that knows that a hard drive is not really the section of road through Skippers Canyon.

Ok went out for a short walk this afternoon and found a freshly used wallow ! And mud on a couple of adjacent trees.
Crazy early for a red to be wallowing isn't it? Can only assume he's also stripping velvet at the same time. Either young and confused or stupid. Saw a good 10 or 12 pointer in same area last year. Hope it's him.
Will go back and put trail camera out tomorrow

At a favourite spot of mine this weekend gone and a wallow is being used, can only put it down to the heat recently

All deer will wallow to rid themselves of parasites etc.
Or just cool off, especially this time of year.
If it is still used mid to late March and stinks like it should, then it's worth a bit of time visiting.

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Originally Posted by Pointer

At a favourite spot of mine this weekend gone and a wallow is being used, can only put it down to the heat recently

What heat
Canterbury weather has been crap all summer.

Originally Posted by Pointer

At a favourite spot of mine this weekend gone and a wallow is being used, can only put it down to the heat recently

Deer wallow year round