Thread: Hunting Pureora. Suggestions and Warnings please

Hi All,
I'm looking at an early May hunt in Pureora with a couple of mates and my Mutt. (Pheasant dog but does point deer etc plus he's silent when hunting)
I have only hunted in from Waihaha lagoon a few years back. Found sign and spooked 1 or 2. Definitely easy to go in circles down there.

Anyway looking on Google earth and Doc View I see a lot of old cut over areas and clearings further north off SH 32 and SH30.
We ideally would be looking to camp from a car or a walk in of no more than 5-8 km to a camp site and then do 3 hour loop hunts Morning and Evening.
From Doc View it all looks too easy so I'm asking questions.

From experience these open areas can be full of 6 ft high cutty grass, Gorse, Tea Tree etc, or whats shown as a car/light 4wd public access road actually requires private land permission or is impassable unless you have a Quad.
None of us are great hunters only doing 2 trips a year but have done a lot of off track tramping etc so are competent with compass and river crossing etc. (We are just a lot slower than we used to be 20 years ago)

Looking for some suggestions of good access points what won't put us in conflict with locals and allow us to access some decent slips faces or clearings looking for meat animals.
I'm up north of Auckland so have no real local knowledge.
Thanks
Zane