Thread: Otawa Forest hunting?. Welcome bay access.

Hi everyone,

I live near the Otawa forest up the welcome bay end. I was just wondering if anyone has any success up there?.

Last week I walked in there for the first time with my dad's 308. sako, 150 grain bullets. I'm sure that's enough stopping power for fallow?

Anyway I bumped into a sleeping stag literally 3 meters from the track but I had the gun decocked and not on half bolt like I should have.
It jumped up behind me(only woke up as I walked past it) and took off, I only had a split second to work the bolt for a un-scoped shot. I tried running after it through the supplejack and dense forest but those fallow are fast buggers lol, gave me a fright that's for sure

I've only been up there once and ran out of daylight for a decent hunt, seems to be very dense and looks like an extremely hard area to hunt. lots of dead leaves that crunch and make too much noise in boots, I might go up there for an early morning hunt this week.

Cheers, where's everyone going for the roar this year? Ruahines and possibly Kawekas too for me.