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

Il be checking out a spot in the Catlins this week. happy for a mrs small and tasty but a mr big and smelly would be awesome too.

@JessicaChen let us know how you get on. With spring coming here the muntjac are starting to move I saw a few yesterday heading into the woods to start on the bluebells. Funny the intestines turn blue when eating them. As the mate all year round you can call em in almost any time. Hard to skin but good eating.

Originally Posted by Sideshow

@JessicaChen let us know how you get on. With spring coming here the muntjac are starting to move I saw a few yesterday heading into the woods to start on the bluebells. Funny the intestines turn blue when eating them. As the mate all year round you can call em in almost any time. Hard to skin but good eating.

Yep I will report back on my findings. It is an area that isn't very popular, not sure why, but it is restricted land so no other hunters are (legally) allowed to go in when im there which is great. Few years ago found a big wallow and scrapings in that area but never revisited since.
Got a spot called black gully, blue mountains in the middle of April which is exciting, but cant do any recon there unfortunately.

Muntjac are funny looking things, the skulls with fangs are awesome.
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikiped...r_skeleton.jpg

Yeah you don’t want your dog to corner one as they will give them a good ripping if the dog has no clue and the deer has one!
You also don’t want to hit one in the car, low to the ground and will make a good mess of you front bumper!
Have a crossing place up the road from me. Last count was 12 bumpers on the side of the road need to take a photo of that and stick it in the crash vehicle site lol

Feel sorry for those of you who have a Haast roar block. I flew into/over the Waiatoto early January and there were deer everywhere. The Wallis’ have been hammering the shit out of those blocks since then. Yarning with @bluebaiter222 who has been in there since. Gutbags everywhere, and the deer have become nocturnal. He can elaborate more if he chooses.
I also spoke with a close family friend of the Wallis’ and he said they have shot several thousand in the Haast area over the last few months.
They don’t get ‘em all but it makes it pretty tough for those of you who have a block and are spending hard won cash, taking leave etc to hunt areas that have been thrashed.

Originally Posted by gilly

Feel sorry for those of you who have a Haast roar block. I flew into/over the Waiatoto early January and there were deer everywhere. The Wallis’ have been hammering the shit out of those blocks since then. Yarning with @bluebaiter222 who has been in there since. Gutbags everywhere, and the deer have become nocturnal. He can elaborate more if he chooses.
I also spoke with a close family friend of the Wallis’ and he said they have shot several thousand in the Haast area over the last few months.
They don’t get ‘em all but it makes it pretty tough for those of you who have a block and are spending hard won cash, taking leave etc to hunt areas that have been thrashed.

I hear mixed reports about markets
I have a clip now given to me of a mop up in the Hoki region (like shooting fish n a barrel)
But where or what is the market
They wont be doing it for fun or free

I’ve heard it’s for pet food. Or they are stockpiling carcasses at the processors ready for the market to open again.

pet food and the local market. Though thought that market not so big? Overseas - take a while to get a shipping container and veni only keeps chilled for so long?

Originally Posted by gilly

I’ve heard it’s for pet food. Or they are stockpiling carcasses at the processors ready for the market to open again.

This is a guess, as the wallis's have their own export certified processing plant I would wager that they will have established Niche markets for 'Organic Wild NZ Venison'. The domestic pet food venny price is $2 kg skin on including plucks, not high enough to operate a flying machine on.

Price of venny in the UK is right down with restaurants shut. Same would go for Germany.
So I doubt its coming this way.

Does anyone know
Has the Pluck been left on the hill or not ??

the numerous gutbags seen in the Waiatoto last week we're paunches only.The heads/ears & plucks flown out attached to the carcass _ all required for both dog tucker & domestic/export markets

Found three big new wallowing areas and some scrapings yesterday. Some poop was left that morning but didn't see or hear any deer, just the noisy bloody cows from the nearby farmland. The cows hollered all day and night!
Only learned recently though that this area I looked at is inaccessible from today till after the roar ends which is a shame. But at least I went out there and learned the area. Not a bad wee bit of forest except for some areas of impenetrable supplejack which red deer wouldn't be able to go through anyway. Pretty much just followed deer tracks that went around these nasty areas.

Stags are getting into it

Originally Posted by PerazziSC3

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Stags are getting into it

@aetchell