Thread: Month of a lifetime in Taupo roar hunting

Originally Posted by Carbine

Hey guys just after some advice. Im looking at spending the roar hunting sika in the kaimanawas for about a month, several 5 day trips with a return to civilization
to wash clothes, myself, restock supplies etc in-between each trip. I more then likely will stay at a holiday park campsite when intown restocking, Question i have is
it would be nice to bring some meat back home to Canterbury but im wondering where, who, how to go about this as it would be good but the aim is mainly for a stag
but some meat would be nice if possible.

Ive been diagnosed with relapse remitting multiple sclerosis "MS" what Graeme Sinclair has and i want to spend the roar of a lifetime hunting sika because i want to
do it before my legs are taken out from under me so to speak or anything worse with this shit disease. Ive spent 8 or nine trips sika hunting when i lived in Auckland
and there's just something about sika hunting compared to red or fallow which ive done more of but a 6 or 8pt sika is my aim for this trip if the opportunity presents
itself it would make my year. Got to get out and do some miles while i can

Cheers guys for any pointers, advice all opinions are appreciated good or bad

@Carbine - re MS, man that sucks, take it from someone who knows. So here's some advice on MS, not hunting.

Get yourself overseas (when it eventually opens up again) and do HSCT treatment before it gets any worse. My wife had the treatment in Moscow in Nov 19 (she was edsss 6.5) and since our return has been completely off of the shit MS drugs. The treatment is basically chemo (with a few extra bits) - stem cell extraction, 6 weeks of chemo drugs in 4 days, stem cell re-insertion, isolation/recovery - it is brutal and absolutely destroys the immune system.

We have not seen a massive improvement but we do see and are still seeing small improvements so for us it was worth it. The other 2 ladies in my wifes intake have seen much better results but they both had lower edsss scores. Here's the rub though, it doesn't work for everyone, is expensive (5 weeks trip to Russia or wherever you decide to go) can cost up to $100k (we had to extend our mortgage and fund-raise) and NO DOUBT has better results the SOONER you do it. Honestly (and i know this is a bit depressing) having MS is an absolute shit situation to be in. In NZ, all they'll do is use you as a test subject for the drugs, and amend them as your progress. You'll be lucky if they even tell you about HSCT and when you mention it they'll try and scare you saying you'll come home in a box. Strangely enough, the hematologist we saw on our return was in favor of the treatment.

If you need more info just PM me but my last words would be - just do it!

.e.