Thread: hunting this time of year, kawekas, ruahines, aorangis or wapiakahi?

Originally Posted by Tahr

There's a few skinny deer around at the moment.
@craigc shot this with me last week and you can see how thin it was. Quite an old buck though so he was obviously struggling getting condition back on post roar. The Reds are only just holding their own at the moment too.

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In terms of finding deer at the moment they are where the sun is. They herd a bit so if you can find where they are there will likely be more than one. Warmth seems to be more important than feed because they don't move around very much - conserving energy. For them, it will be a few weeks yet before they think it's spring. Daffodils mean nothing to deer.

And yet I shot a red hind the other day and she was mud fat. Maybe she is eating first and not leaving anything for the rest.... and all 9 fallow we shot last week were in gd condition.

Spring is starting to show in the native as the jelly ferns are sprouting....well at leatbthenone I saw in the Kaimanawa last weekend were

Hamish

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