Thread: Kaimais vs Priongia deer stalking

Hey,

Looking at different locations around Hamilton to get out for a hunt.

Have looked at priongia and kaimais, what’s your thoughts?

Cheers

I can potentially offer some input - send us an email via the forum. Matt

Heaps up the Kaimais, Pirongia gets more than it's share of 1080

I've shot 16 on the tauranga side of the kaimais this year plenty around

Sweet will definitely plan a trip up kaimais

Funny, my best hunting mate leaves in leamington and is name is Aidan as well. Go kaimai side.
You need a good gps ( and not just your phone gps), a small bottle of puffing chalk or flour ( to constantly test the wind during your progress in the woods). And a pair of sécateurs in case you get stuck into supple jacks.
Just spend your days exploring the terrain, and not just on tracks ( it can actually be dangerous to be on tracks with a rifle when there are other users/hunters/ peoples), and mark every time you see interesting signs like wallows, fresh poos …..etc.
Within ten outings you will see your first deer and maybe shoot at one, providing you are not too noisy and you monitor your wind well and keep exploring .

I live in cambridge and kaimais is the closest worthwhile public place. Pirongia gets nailed with 1080 and cullers too often for deer. Plenty of goats but going for deer there is pointless. Have taken 5 reds and 6 fallow out of the kaimais waikato side this year between me and my young son. Most within 20 mins walk of roads. Would have been more but we got distracted with our "private" hunting grounds getting overrun with released pigs and had to thin them out. In the kaimais, dont be fooled into thinking the deer will avoid the thickest supplejack areas,they hide in them and kind of duck under them as they walk. If you go up Barton rd off old te aroha road and walk up the paper road,head towards Mangamuka hut and go S L O W L Y and you will likely see deer. Heres a map of nz paper roads (unformed legal access into various areas). Zoom in on the map till you find Matamata,then move map till you see kaimais,the barton road quarry and paper road access is in a line between matamata and te puke. Zoom in enough on the end of Barton road and paper road appears as a thin green line going across and up past the airstrip. Take note of the private areas you cant hunt .Also shows huts n hunting areas on the map. clicking on areas of interest will tell you linz info about them. Amazing where you can get into sometimes when it looks like no access.
paper roads link -
https://maps.herengaanuku.govt.nz/Vi...94c3839df4d3a3

Hey @oneipete do you mind if i send you a message?

Ive attempted to hunt both and will choose Kaimai's any day of the week over Pirongia

Originally Posted by HuntlyHunter

Hey @oneipete do you mind if i send you a message?

message away.

Originally Posted by oneipete

I live in cambridge and kaimais is the closest worthwhile public place. Pirongia gets nailed with 1080 and cullers too often for deer. Plenty of goats but going for deer there is pointless. Have taken 5 reds and 6 fallow out of the kaimais waikato side this year between me and my young son. Most within 20 mins walk of roads. Would have been more but we got distracted with our "private" hunting grounds getting overrun with released pigs and had to thin them out. In the kaimais, dont be fooled into thinking the deer will avoid the thickest supplejack areas,they hide in them and kind of duck under them as they walk. If you go up Barton rd off old te aroha road and walk up the paper road,head towards Mangamuka hut and go S L O W L Y and you will likely see deer. Heres a map of nz paper roads (unformed legal access into various areas). Zoom in on the map till you find Matamata,then move map till you see kaimais,the barton road quarry and paper road access is in a line between matamata and te puke. Zoom in enough on the end of Barton road and paper road appears as a thin green line going across and up past the airstrip. Take note of the private areas you cant hunt .Also shows huts n hunting areas on the map. clicking on areas of interest will tell you linz info about them. Amazing where you can get into sometimes when it looks like no access.
paper roads link -
https://maps.herengaanuku.govt.nz/Vi...94c3839df4d3a3

Hey Oneipete, have you ever had any trouble from the land owners either side of the paper road? In the aerial imagery it looks to just be a hedge line?

Originally Posted by Cameron13

I've shot 16 on the tauranga side of the kaimais this year plenty around

Jeez, I'd like to see that many.

There are deer at Pirongia but mainly in the fringe country and you need access to private land. The actual bush / public land gets a lot of 1080 and culling as mentioned before. But I had two fallow yearlings on the front lawn the other day so they are definitely around...