Thread: The Roar - Let's see some photos!

Originally Posted by sako75

Whahoo thats awesome. Got a pic of it?

Have to wait for him to come down off his cloud......soon i hope!!!!!...got him at 3-30....headlamps to bone him out and carry the meat back to camp......long but brilliant day!!!!!!

Scousers buddy

Huge thanks Dundee, thats the exit wound, he shot him in the chest about 25 mtrs above him.......

That is a trophy photo

I had a mate turn up to help build me a deck so thought best take him for a shot so headed for hauroko unloaded our gear in the hut then across the lake ...picked the perfect spot thick, lots of windfall and steep and just to top it off no stags roaring either not even much sign PERFICT but with a stroke of luck when we were nearing the tops got a reply all happened pretty quick he came steaming in he even had to side track a couple of times around fallen trees to get at us ended up only 10 meters away roaring hes head off my mate was all set he lines up the 357 and...click opps safty was on not off !! at 10 meters the stag jumped sideways at the click lucky I already had my sights on him not a big boy but was awsum to see a stag up close ended up a good day until we got back to the boat to find the anchor rope had snapped (still had a mainline on a tree) and the boat was sitting amongst the rocks rolling away in the wash...few dings and water on board not sure how it got there eather a hole or a wave but didn't wait round to find out headed for home sitting rather low in the water for a while !

@Dorma - east Coast?

Originally Posted by Pointer

@Dorma - east Coast?

southern Fiordland

Did a write up over the other the side but thought Id better put the pic up here since Im wearing the logo

Got this little bugger on saturday, my first sika a small 8, pretty stoked

South Westland stag I shot in our ballot block, roared in & shot close.

Few more pics from the last few days;

Reds still roaring on and off, had a bit of fun with a couple of young reds, roaring them to within 20m. Hit one with a stone when he came into about 8m to teach him a lesson about humans











Fallow are croaking well. Spent the weekend chasing them, seeing quite a few younger bucks and only one mature one. Witnessed some awesome buck fights! Got a heap of cool photos, but they're on my laptop. Will add them later. Here's a photo of a promising young buck we left to do his thing.





Cheers
JoshC

@JoshC that buck looks like he will be a good in given time. Nice strong tynes

Originally Posted by puku

@JoshC that buck looks like he will be a good in given time. Nice strong tynes

Yep, promising fella. He got pushed out by a bigger one a day after I took that photo. I tried to get close to the bigger one to assess him properly, but the wind stuffed me up. I'll head up tomorrow for a look, and will be back chasing them in the weekend. They're awesome deer to hunt at this time of year.

Originally Posted by JoshC

Yep, promising fella. He got pushed out by a bigger one a day after I took that photo. I tried to get close to the bigger one to assess him properly, but the wind stuffed me up. I'll head up tomorrow for a look, and will be back chasing them in the weekend. They're awesome deer to hunt at this time of year.

I think I want you're job/life/hunting spots... Very jealous of the quality of animals you see!

Originally Posted by PerazziSC3

I think I want you're job/life/hunting spots... Very jealous of the quality of animals you see!

You and the rest of us

Originally Posted by PerazziSC3

I think I want you're job/life/hunting spots... Very jealous of the quality of animals you see!

Haha, I don't mean to make anyone jealous. I just love being in the outdoors and hunting. It was how I grew up. I don't do much else than hunt/fish, a bit of socialising so I still have a few friends (lol), but I put a lot of effort into making time to hunt, and still work a 40+ hour week and juggle family time. It usually means big days and late nights and I'm always tired but you only live once and I want to hunt as much as I can while I'm young enough to do it. At this time of year I'll work when the weather is crappy, and hunt when it's fine. Income definitely drops a bit but winter time is a very busy work time for me which makes up for it. The missus gets a bit annoyed, but she knows how much it means to me and gets over it pretty quick.

As for the hunting spots, get out there, do some foot work and start looking. Over 90% of my hunting is done on public land. All spots found by me, none "recommended" by someone else etc. All but maybe a couple of the roar photos I've put up in this thread have been taken on public land. I generally don't even take photos on private land hunts, as they're normally just meat hunting trips. The animals are always there, you just need to spend time to find them.