Thanks, heck of a lot sooner than I thought, need to make a plan soon.
Thanks, heck of a lot sooner than I thought, need to make a plan soon.
62,000 hectares earmarked for aerial drop...wow. How long will that even take? I imagine this will be weeks and weeks of operations. Anyone have word on whether deer repellent will be used for any of the area (I don't hold out much hope)?
Liquidasset, hunting in winter is often very productive in Pureoras, I seem run into deer in the middle of the day and there's far less hunting pressure. We have had a mega run of frosts since the shortest day. People often say reds are less fussed about the cold than sika, but I reckon they still generally stay out of guts and creeks where it will be super cold. North facing is your best best, walk down a slope until you find some fresh sign and sidle from there. Good luck!
Just got home, fair to say there’s a decent population of the buggers in there. A lot of sign around the timber trail south of the Piropiro campsite, even had fairly fresh scat on the suspension bridges hahaha.
There are some nice clearings around the area mentioned but there was no sign around them, another hunter in the campground said to stay away from creeks and low elevation due to the run of frosts. So hit the trail this morning up to 700m and dropped into some fairly open bush and had fresh sign almost immediately. About 20mins in I came across a pile of poo so fresh it was literally steaming! As I bent down to check it out a stag barked and bolted about 40m around the slope from me. Honestly I need to work on this as I seem to be making a habit of not being ready when I find fresh sign. Obviously it would’ve been a great idea to scan my surroundings before checking out this lads steamer but this is what learning is about hahahahaha will be back for sure!
Great campground up at Piropiro, easy access even in a 2wd car. Quite a few animals taken yesterday in the camp which was awesome to see 👌
Awesome man, thanks for posting your update. Haha you can't get fresher sign than that!
I usually cover plenty of ground when I hunt, but if I come across fresh sign, I slow right down. Like, one step...scan and look around...listen...another step, and so on. This time of year animals are moving about during the day so often they give themselves away as they wander along searching the forest floor for goodies. I was in there on Friday, saw a young stag in really good condition and a couple of pigs. I was hunting with a bow and it was one of those days where I just couldn't seem to get a clear shot before they spooked!
Awesome! Good to know the numbers in there are still good despite all the foot/wheel traffic. Hahaha it would be hilarious coming across a red skin doing it's business on a bridge Which trail did you take up to 700m?
I read in another forum thread that the 1080 was being postponed to some time in August due to budget constraints, so I need to make an effort to get down that ways.
Yeah the poo on the bridges was hilarious, would be cool to see one using it 🤣
I used the road that goes up to the Keremetangi track, easy 4x4 access if you have one I however did not so only got to the first peak then darted into the bush. There were other hunters further along as I heard their quad go screaming up the road at one point. Now weighing up wether I need a dog or a quad hahaha
Thanks for the good info in here for piropiro flats, looking to head in there soon
I rang Doc a couple of weeks ago. Its not happening until early November so there is still a couple of weeks.
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