Thread: Kaimais vs Priongia deer stalking

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?