Thread: red deer advice please

This morning around 7am I spooked a red in native bush close to my home. I was on a ridge, it was just below me and cought my scent with the cold air moving downwards. I found it's tracks and shit and a place I believe it must have bedded down I believe (see attached picks). It had urinated onto the possible bedding area which surprises me. Also the bush is not very thick there, I would have expected the bedding area in a less acsessible part of the bush.

What would you do? Give it a few days and come back?

Is there anything you can say from seeing the scat and hoofprints? I am a bow hunter and after meat, not trophies, so I dont really care if it is a buck or dow, this is just interest.

Generally I am looking for hunting buddies in the Golden Bay area. I have taken newbies hunting, but I haven't shot many deer and pigs myself and would love to learn from more experienced hunters.

Cheers!!