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

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

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

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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Stags & hinds will wallow, we used to see them doing it quite a bit in the summer time on the farm to cool off, the younger ones would splash around playing in the dam too.

There are a lot of velvets' hitting the ground at the moment - and a good proportion under a spotlight. The hunting facebook pages are full of them. There has always been tension between those hunting for meat and trophy hunters, but currently the avowed meat hunters are quite scathing of the trophy hunters. It might be because there are so many deer around at the moment. I'm inclined to think it is promoting a cavalier "they are still making them" attitude. Maybe its all become a bit too easy? There is certainly a lot of bravado bullshit being talked - if half of these guys had to actually work for a deer I think that they would soon disappear back to doing something easier in their spare time.
Then again, maybe only the fringe is being picked off and further away from the tracks and out of spot light range the stags are thriving. I'm not a trophy hunter, but I hope so.

I personally think shooting high potential stags or hinds this time of year, says a lot about people that do it.

I haven't been out for a look this trip home yet, but last month I seen shit loads of deer that were either hinds, stags or too big for me to carry out.
Don't usually struggle to find a yearling this time of year, but I have been the last couple months. Only seen 1 since I took one in October.
There definitely appears to be a few more stags around than normal.


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Originally Posted by R93

I personally think shooting high potential stags or hinds this time of year, says a lot about people that do it.

I haven't been out for a look this trip home yet, but last month I seen shit loads of deer that were either hinds, stags or too big for me to carry out.
Don't usually struggle to find a yearling this time of year, but I have been the last couple months. Only seen 1 since I took one in October.
There definitely appears to be a few more stags around than normal.


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Cant say i agree with your first sentence above when it comes to shooting high potental stags at this time of year. Hunting and what you shoot, when you shoot it is up to the individual.This time of the year for a meat hunter stags are in prime nick and if you not a trophy hunter then no one else has the right to tell you that you cant shoot that 12 pointer in velvet because you should leave it for another hunter so he an shoot it in the roar, take a rack and either waste the meat or turn it into small goods because its too rank now to use as prime venison!
Any hunter doing the hard yards looking for prime venison should be looking out for themselves first rather than worry about someone else and there opinion. I personally like chasing a rack in the roar, and if i saw a good stag in a area i hunt in velvet i prob would leave it and hope i got lucky later on or if i was hunting a area i normally wouldnt go and there were two stags standing there, one 14 pointer and a scrubby 4 in velvet etc i shoot the scrubby four and leave the trophy one for someone else, thats just me.
If someone else thou in the same postion shot the 14 pointer i feel no ill feeling at all toward them, even if it was in the area i was saving for the roar etc.
. Each to their own, if that hunt made them happy good on them. Hunting DOC land thats just life, doesnt worry me, hunting is a personal choice and its your decision what you shoot, when you shoot it and im not going to say to anyone else you cant shoot that or do that etc as its none of my business and nobody has the right to tell others what to shoot for their own personal benifit do they?

Lots of deer around and more hinds than stags. Yes theres a heap of velvety stags getting eaten lately by a lot of hunters me included. Even deer in spots that haven't had them in years. It should be easier for the newer hunters.