Thread: Ruahine's hunt

Originally Posted by craigc

There’s a few in the north too. Like he says, make sure you shoot a few. They need culling.

https://youtu.be/6KXiQdW-YeY

Yup that whole range all the way through Mangaweka and Hikurangi is crawling. Was further North in December and saw 20+ in the few weather windows we got (was in for 7 days and probably got 1.5 days out of the cloud). Shot a few but would have shot a lot more if we got the weather to go chasing them with a bit more earnest.
Possibly heading back in to a similar area September to a lower altitude in one of the valleys, assume I'll have good success hunting the north facing slips and upper head-water feed-belts even that time of year. Deer might be a bit skinny though, although in December the deer we shot were in quite good nick.