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Thread: Kaimanawas hunting - anyone been there lately?

  1. 18-11-2024, 12:45 PM #1
    hunterkate
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    Kaimanawas hunting - anyone been there lately?

    Hi, wondering if anyone has been in the kaimanawas lately and is there sign/animals around? thinking around Oamaru, Boyd and Cascade huts, thanks.
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  3. 18-11-2024, 05:39 PM #2
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    Was in kaipo last weekend. Yes there was sign. There are 2 less animals though
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  4. 18-11-2024, 06:24 PM #3
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    My son was there on Saturday watching and videoing a mob of small pigs. No deer.
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  5. 18-11-2024, 06:32 PM #4
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    I've seen/spooked animals it those areas in just about every month of year so they are around. Shot bugger all of them mind you but that's on me
    308 and veryfuturistic like this.
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    Grass growth at the 1000m altitude is going gangbusters now. In a fortnight it will be hitting all that 1200m hunting ground.
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  7. 19-11-2024, 08:19 PM #6
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    Apparently a bunch of 'legends' thermalled 7 deer on the flats around Oamaru. Gut bags etc left around tracks
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  8. 20-11-2024, 11:28 AM #7
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    Quote Originally Posted by superdiver View Post
    Apparently a bunch of 'legends' thermalled 7 deer on the flats around Oamaru. Gut bags etc left around tracks
    Name and shame!
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  9. 20-11-2024, 12:16 PM #8
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    Be on snap chat or face book it happens everywhere now
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    Was in halfway between kiko and clements mill couple of weekends ago. Sign everywhere seen two stags and one hind and spooked another over 2 days.
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    Just came back from gold creek which is just downstream of Boyd. Lots of animals about, spring growth in the guts and gully’s is pumping and animals in prime condition!
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    I see the desert road is going to close for nearly 2 months!
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    Quote Originally Posted by Liquidasset View Post
    Just came back from gold creek which is just downstream of Boyd. Lots of animals about, spring growth in the guts and gully’s is pumping and animals in prime condition!
    Trip report!
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    Quote Originally Posted by Sika 8 View Post
    I see the desert road is going to close for nearly 2 months!
    The whole thing?
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  15. 21-11-2024, 09:41 AM #14
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    Quote Originally Posted by Liquidasset View Post
    Just came back from gold creek which is just downstream of Boyd. Lots of animals about, spring growth in the guts and gully’s is pumping and animals in prime condition!
    @Liquidasset

    The animals all pretty nocturnal, or out and about morning/evening?
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  16. 21-11-2024, 01:39 PM #15
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    Quote Originally Posted by superdiver View Post
    The whole thing?
    Yep - Jan 6th until late Feb.
    Diversion via Ohakune / National park
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