Thread: Perfect South Westland weather.....and deer, or not!

Sounds good Thar, I had set a game camera up last couple times I was over there, I checked it on the last visit and there were hinds around all hours of the day & night, didn't see any stags, I moved it to another spot but will set another camera up in the first spot again and see if hinds have fawns and any stags around.

Shoot as many pregnant hinds as you can

Rogie

I reckon close shots,inside 20mtrs.Aim bit lower as you tend to hurry yr shot and yr rifle tends to lift a little under recoil.Just a thort.

Originally Posted by gimp

Shoot as many pregnant hinds as you can

All meat for the freezer.

Ok. Confession time then....
Some time ago I was out for a hunt locally. Within the space of an hour I had wounded a medium sized pig standing broadside at 12m and completely missed another small pig quartering towards me at 15m. When I got home I discovered why my usually accurate 308 wasn't shooting so well. The idiot using it had taken 243win ammunition with him. Amazed I didn't blow the suppressor off!
On the velvet note, I filmed a stag two weeks ago with about 400mm on his head.

Twodiffs, I spent 5 days hunting in South Westland just a couple of weeks ago with my oldest son. We only saw one stag over the five days. We have been hunting this spot for 14 years and have also noticed a lack of stags in late spring in recent years. When we first started hunting there we used to see a lot of stags on the valley floor, but recently very few - I assume this is because there is much less helicopter hunting pressure now so the stags are up higher.

Hunting was still pretty good though - we shot 7 but could easily have shot more. My son shot 2 on the walk in to the hut and another that evening.

The highlight for me was my son shot a spiker with a crossbow - hit him in the chest front on at 50 metres. The spiker only ran about 20 metres before collapsing.

Originally Posted by Shearer

Ok. Confession time then....
Some time ago I was out for a hunt locally. Within the space of an hour I had wounded a medium sized pig standing broadside at 12m and completely missed another small pig quartering towards me at 15m. When I got home I discovered why my usually accurate 308 wasn't shooting so well. The idiot using it had taken 243win ammunition with him. Amazed I didn't blow the suppressor off!
On the velvet note, I filmed a stag two weeks ago with about 400mm on his head.

Originally Posted by Shearer

Thats a nice clear image.

Would have given you brother in law something to rubbish you about if he were still here.
"Mumsie" would have given you arseholes I'm sure

Theres no right or wrong, hinds are pregnant from April onwards and personally id rather take them before the fawns are on foot so theres no possibility of one starving to death

Originally Posted by Twodiffs

Sounds good Thar, I had set a game camera up last couple times I was over there, I checked it on the last visit and there were hinds around all hours of the day & night, didn't see any stags, I moved it to another spot but will set another camera up in the first spot again and see if hinds have fawns and any stags around.

This time of year they can live in completely different locations, due to differing diet and cover requirements.

Originally Posted by Boxton

Would have given you brother in law something to rubbish you about if he were still here.
"Mumsie" would have given you arseholes I'm sure

Yep...she does anyway, I'm always a larakin and winding her up so being rubbished or clobbered is normal lol.

Originally Posted by Sauer

Twodiffs, I spent 5 days hunting in South Westland just a couple of weeks ago with my oldest son. We only saw one stag over the five days. We have been hunting this spot for 14 years and have also noticed a lack of stags in late spring in recent years. When we first started hunting there we used to see a lot of stags on the valley floor, but recently very few - I assume this is because there is much less helicopter hunting pressure now so the stags are up higher.

Hunting was still pretty good though - we shot 7 but could easily have shot more. My son shot 2 on the walk in to the hut and another that evening.

The highlight for me was my son shot a spiker with a crossbow - hit him in the chest front on at 50 metres. The spiker only ran about 20 metres before collapsing.

Nice going mate, what part were you in?. In and around Hari x2 is our local.

Originally Posted by Tahr

Thats a nice clear image.

Thanks. It was my first time out with the Sytong SX06-25lrf. The deer were at about 200 yards and I have no idea what zoom level (if any) I was on. Accidently made about 8 videos I didn't know what I was making.