Thread: Kawekas

Originally Posted by BrentG

thanks for the replies guys. Spotlighting not the intention, if we wanted to do that we would just take the 4wd to the end of the beach nearby and take a few fallow, could be there and back in and hour and a half. So if we were to head to the open tops, say weather forecast was good, would we be likely to see anything out in the open or are deer likely to be holed up in the bush this time of year?

thanks

I don't think there is much to eat on the tops at anytime of the year, certainly they are seen there but only as they pass from one gully to the next. You can expect anything from a dusting to a dumping of snow to cover the tops at this time of the year. My experience with hunting Kawekas is that the deer frequent a height band around the hillsides...find this height band from sign of their movements as in hoofprints, scat and browsing and stay within it. Shooting on the tops can be of long range with little hope of closing the gap on foot in a hurry so one needs to be confident on shooting at longer ranges with a rifle capable of achieving it.