Thread: Mangatainoka doc hut

Hi everyone,

I’m potentially looking at a winter trip in here. I’ve heard the bush is smashed from the big snow dump a couple of years back. Can anyone give me some insights into the area? Is it worth a look?

Cheers
Hebe

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Originally Posted by hebe

Hi everyone,

I’m potentially looking at a winter trip in here. I’ve heard the bush is smashed from the big snow dump a couple of years back. Can anyone give me some insights into the area? Is it worth a look?

Cheers
Hebe

Theres plenty of windfall/snow damage, still huntable though. Some nice bush in spots although the deer have usually been parked up in the shite spots

Some nice little scrubby slips up a couple of the side creeks. Worth a crack, but like anywhere this time of year you will need to cover some ground to find where the deer are

I found the bush in there to be tight but there were plenty of clearings, slips and creeks to hunt and certainly no shortage of animals but it was at a different time of year I hunted it.

The meat safe isn’t fly proof unless it’s been fixed.

The area also has ALOT of ongaonga and for some reason it’s very prevalent in there as opposed to other areas of the Kaimanawas/Kawekas.

Its one of the areas identified by the Sika Foundation as suffering canopy collapse - for various reasons, Sika don't cause the collapse but stifle the re-generation. The Sika hind population is way too high and the stag population low and too young. The average age of the hinds is very high and their condition is very poor. Many of them are so light they only have a couple of fawns in their whole lifetime.
Go in there and shoot lots of hinds.

Originally Posted by Seventenths

I found the bush in there to be tight but there were plenty of clearings, slips and creeks to hunt and certainly no shortage of animals but it was at a different time of year I hunted it.

The meat safe isn’t fly proof unless it’s been fixed.

The area also has ALOT of ongaonga and for some reason it’s very prevalent in there as opposed to other areas of the Kaimanawas/Kawekas.

Ah shit about the onga, i hunt with a dog so that may put me off a bit.

Originally Posted by hebe

Ah shit about the onga, i hunt with a dog so that may put me off a bit.

Its not so potent in the winter.

Originally Posted by Tahr

Its not so potent in the winter.

.... can still kill a dog. Hebe - treat your dog as you would your bare legs and you will be sweet.

Originally Posted by Nickoli

.... can still kill a dog. Hebe - treat your dog as you would your bare legs and you will be sweet.

Thanks Tahr and Nickoli for the info. The dog got whacked by some a couple of winters ago...up Dead Dog Hut actually. I’m pretty keen not to repeat that. But As long as its not pure faces of it i think we should be alright.

Originally Posted by hebe

Thanks Tahr and Nickoli for the info. The dog got whacked by some a couple of winters ago...up Dead Dog Hut actually. I’m pretty keen not to repeat that. But As long as its not pure faces of it i think we should be alright.

Go get 'em Hebe - I'm very familiar with the Dead Dog Hut area; Dad & I do the trap lines into there from Herricks Hut and up to No Man's Road. Got to say the Onga Onga in there is pretty mild compared to other areas though. Keep a good watch on your furry mate - ensure your dog doesn't get a face full of it as that really hits their breathing (from what I've seen with my old dog) as I'm sure you've seen.

I carried a boned out Sika Stag out of there - non stop to Boyd's - got there 3pm
The head of the "other" Forum had a beautiful Trout cooked - that is right it was 1st October
Liked the place
End of my Possum season and I was as fit as a fiddlers bitch
And 35 years younger than now :-(

Stopped at Tussock for a midday brew up
Raining too - all the way

Anyone selling youth on here :-(

Originally Posted by Nickoli

Go get 'em Hebe - I'm very familiar with the Dead Dog Hut area; Dad & I do the trap lines into there from Herricks Hut and up to No Man's Road. Got to say the Onga Onga in there is pretty mild compared to other areas though. Keep a good watch on your furry mate - ensure your dog doesn't get a face full of it as that really hits their breathing (from what I've seen with my old dog) as I'm sure you've seen.

Yep, we just got unlucky I think. We were on a deer and he had just popped onto a wee rise ahead of me but out of my sight. I put him on the stop , turned out he’d sat down in a clump of it. Poor bugger shivered all night infront of the fire.

Originally Posted by hebe

Yep, we just got unlucky I think. We were on a deer and he had just popped onto a wee rise ahead of me but out of my sight. I put him on the stop , turned out he’d sat down in a clump of it. Poor bugger shivered all night infront of the fire.

Its not to bad in there for onga onga, doesn't grow in massive thickets like lower down but heaps of knee high stuff

See your vet and tell him about the nettle. I always get antihistamine for dogs and carry it in with me.

As Woody said, you can carry some antihistamine for the woofer. The "human" stuff is fine so you can use it as well if you get hit, but check on the dose for the dog with the vet. That Onga Onga is nasty shit, I reckon it would make a great alternative to razor wire for the boundary fence

Originally Posted by hebe

Yep, we just got unlucky I think. We were on a deer and he had just popped onto a wee rise ahead of me but out of my sight. I put him on the stop , turned out he’d sat down in a clump of it. Poor bugger shivered all night infront of the fire.