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

How we getting on guys??

Originally Posted by Dundee

you were up here today,weren't you?

Yeah popped up looking late in the morning without a rifle for a look around. Was that one of your vehicles in the park?

Anyone started looking yet for this year?

Originally Posted by Sideshow

Anyone started looking yet for this year?

heading out tomorrow for afew days recon work

Originally Posted by Sideshow

Anyone started looking yet for this year?

I never do any recon....i i rather be surprised whats there when i get there.Besides, couldnt help myself and take a rifle and velvet stags are just great eating so they just end up
on the deck. Like to give this time of year a miss until mid feb or March where the stags are still in good nick and hard antler..
Did see a 8 pointer in velvet when trying to get out and set up a game camera and i know where he be.

Im the other way haven't got any public spots for the roar so doing 7 or 8 3-4 day trips between now and the roar to try and locate some good animals/ground so during the roar im not
wasting my time so to speak, not wasting time so to speak just wasting the roar looking for animals

I only posted to see if anyone was looking at new ground and to put the thought into your heads…only 4 months to the roar…I’d not shoot the ones in velvet. But I would knock over any yearlings or hinds that had not dropped a fawn.

Game camera fucked out got a new ordered mental stuff i have witnessed big fan more deer and trophy blood Hunter Hills game cameras rule big fan and fuck all wallaby action

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Had to read that one twice any good photos yet @NRT our have you not put it out yet.

Originally Posted by Sideshow

Had to read that one twice any good photos yet @NRT our have you not put it out yet.

Agree drinking ,and texting not a strong point Need to get photos off laptop there is a classic one of a velvety red with his head tilted sniffing the camera with wtf expression on his face

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Any updates?
Just got a new bit of land myself so looking forward to the roe buck rut.

Don’t really get the time to do pre roar recon specifically. For the likes of Sika which I intend to target, I feel your recon would be more ground focussed anyway rather then animal focussed as the stags can travel a long way over the March period into their rutting grounds for April. Places that don’t hold any good stags over the feeding months will have them turn up for the roar and then bugger off again. My best recon info comes from things learnt during previous roars.

I haven't managed to get out and look but mates have and reckon its looking good

Got my first hard antlered stag already



So the big guys ought to be well stripped now.

The problem being with "pre roar" scouting is that they don't roar where they grow their velvet. They can move a very long way.

Originally Posted by Tahr

Got my first hard antlered stag already

The problem being with "pre roar" scouting is that they don't roar where they grow their velvet. They can move a very long way.

Nice one @Tahr plenty of fat on him??