Red Deer At This Time Of Year

Hello everyone,

I trust you're all doing great. I have a query regarding the general whereabouts of Red Deer.

This upcoming Sunday, I'm gearing up for a hunt and I'm curious: Where can I typically find red deer at this time of year?

Furthermore, does anyone have suggestions on where I can access information about their general whereabouts throughout the year? I've been searching for Roger Lentle's book "Stalking the Seasons Round" but unfortunately couldn't find it for purchase. Any alternatives or resources you could recommend would be greatly appreciated.

Cheers

Try your local library. I found a copy and photocopied the whole thing. No disrespect to the author or intended IP transgression, I would have happily paid for it, but couldn't get my hands on the damn thing.

Let me preface the comment with the confession that im very inexperienced. However i asked the same question recently.

I think the correct answer is; north, sun facing clearings on the tops. I thing they can still be found in riverbeds moring and night.

Roger Lentle says deer only eat grass in spring. I think they eat grass all year. Especially if its nice and green.

Id love.to.get a copy of that book thought just to see what he thinks.



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Originally Posted by MB

Try your local library. I found a copy and photocopied the whole thing. No disrespect to the author or intended IP transgression, I would have happily paid for it, but couldn't get my hands on the damn thing.

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Wanna throw it through the copier again? Ill scan it in and make it a pdf. Either that or a more local tech savy fella could sort it.

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Ah true, I know in the book he says that Fallow deer are currently scavenging the bush as the grass there currently has more nutrients

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Originally Posted by Rn-85

Wanna throw it through the copier again? Ill scan it in and make it a pdf. Either that or a more local tech savy fella could sort it.

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Not really. Copying for personal use is one thing, putting it online is something else.

https://discover.aucklandlibraries.g...pe=FormatGroup

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Originally Posted by Rn-85

Let me preface the comment with the confession that im very inexperienced. However i asked the same question recently.

I think the correct answer is; north, sun facing clearings on the tops. I thing they can still be found in riverbeds moring and night.

Roger Lentle says deer only eat grass in spring. I think they eat grass all year. Especially if its nice and green.

Id love.to.get a copy of that book thought just to see what he thinks.



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Lentle knows a lot of stuff but not all of the stuff. Treat his books as guidelines rather than rules. The deer will still be on the very best feed areas scoffing up large in mainly discrete sex groups but with spikers and young chaps mixed with the hinds. The hinds have come out of seclusion with their fawns and have formed into groups and are quite visible. In a few weeks the stags will disappear as they move to their rutting areas. The hinds will remain quite visible. Knock some hinds over.

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Not really. Copying for personal use is one thing, putting it online is something else.

https://discover.aucklandlibraries.g...pe=FormatGroup

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Yeah i respect that. Especially seeing the fella is still alive.

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In light of the lentle book. Do the deer prefer grass or comprosma? What is "the best feed"

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I stopped believing the whole sunny faces thing after I was watched a hind and it’s fawn all morning eating and chewing cud on a clearing, they spent hours there all morning and then as soon as the sun hit them, they took off into the bush. This was on a cold day for the time of the year so exactly when you’d think they’d be soaking up the rays.

From my experience this time of the year they will have a very condensed feeding period in the morning and evening (and of course overnight) when it’s not too hot, otherwise they will be bedded up somewhere cool.

I have access to a clearing that I've taken numerous reds off. It's top of a big hill, no real water for a decent way into the bush, and every time I, the cocky, or his other mates go there, we see at least half a dozen. Often, we'll drop one, wander round the clearing before going back and sorting it out, only to have to pick the rifle up and shoot one half an hour later that's wandered out to feed. Seasons, our scents, our shots, weather, nothing has an effect on them. It's not really even a hunt anymore, just our go to meat supply, or to get a youngster their first.
And that's every month of the year.

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Originally Posted by Rn-85

Let me preface the comment with the confession that im very inexperienced. However i asked the same question recently.

I think the correct answer is; north, sun facing clearings on the tops. I thing they can still be found in riverbeds moring and night.

Roger Lentle says deer only eat grass in spring. I think they eat grass all year. Especially if its nice and green.

Id love.to.get a copy of that book thought just to see what he thinks.



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I've never got my head around deer and grass. In the Tararuas around Smith creek and Tutuwai hut the grass looks like someones mowed it using the lowest setting. In the Aorangis the grass is above the knees in some clearings, they just dont seem to eat it.

I searched for the book and found another one that Roger Lentle recently published. Could be handy ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

https://www.mightyape.co.nz/product/...aland/35961619

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Originally Posted by Daithi

I have access to a clearing that I've taken numerous reds off. It's top of a big hill, no real water for a decent way into the bush, and every time I, the cocky, or his other mates go there, we see at least half a dozen. Often, we'll drop one, wander round the clearing before going back and sorting it out, only to have to pick the rifle up and shoot one half an hour later that's wandered out to feed. Seasons, our scents, our shots, weather, nothing has an effect on them. It's not really even a hunt anymore, just our go to meat supply, or to get a youngster their first.
And that's every month of the year.

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Now that's a true spot X :D

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I searched for the book and found another one that Roger Lentle recently published. Could be handy ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

https://www.mightyape.co.nz/product/...aland/35961619

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I borrowed it from chch library and dont rate it. Its less imformative than red deer in nz.

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There's a new edition of Red Deer in NZ out too.

Identify your target beyond all doubt because you never miss (right?) and I'll be missed.

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I've never got my head around deer and grass. In the Tararuas around Smith creek and Tutuwai hut the grass looks like someones mowed it using the lowest setting. In the Aorangis the grass is above the knees in some clearings, they just dont seem to eat it.

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Whats the deer population like and other plant life?

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Regardless of where they are they will know where the best tucker is

I have also seen them eat the grease off bulldozer/digger pins, have their mouths underwater eating watercress, have seen a red deer eat a blackbird, a jap stag trying to eat a Moro bar wrapper, and reds eat all the flowers off about 15 roses

And they can strip apricot trees of fruit :)

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Regardless of where they are they will know where the best tucker is

I have also seen them eat the grease off bulldozer/digger pins, have their mouths underwater eating watercress, have seen a red deer eat a blackbird, a jap stag trying to eat a Moro bar wrapper, and reds eat all the flowers off about 15 roses

And they can strip apricot trees of fruit :)

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And I thought they were fishing because their heads were well into the water.

nah they were moose....Bunji released a few at his batch remember...

Best protein and sugar content, that’s what they are after. Depending on their environment this could be grass or where available plant leaves or other things. Shelter and food, that’s where you find them.

haha.they are everywhere. deer can be very unpredictable.the best way is mark where you see one,if a pattern is occurring in that area your onto something cover lots of ground and when you think you have it figured out you probably haven't.

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haha.they are everywhere. deer can be very unpredictable.the best way is mark where you see one,if a pattern is occurring in that area your onto something cover lots of ground and when you think you have it figured out you probably haven't.

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Hahaha.....aint that the truth, well said. Just joined and looking to learn about NZ, but sounds just about like whitetail and mulies over here. Nothing going to make up for laying eyes on them, and starting to piece it together from there. And then just when it all comes together the buggers change it up and its back to square one. Wouldnt be fun if it was easy!