Thread: Spot x

Originally Posted by GNAR

I got access from sth 29 before old kaimai road

Yep, that's a decent stream to cross. The old tramway clearings are well worth a look along. For hunting that area a compass is all you need as you will only be venturing either East or West and that is simple enough to get back to the track. If you go in off Old Kaimai Road you will cut out a fair bit of the track from the summit.

Id stick with just a compass and topo map .
My gps has a hard time keeping up and if your just going a wee way off the track the compass is by far the best friend youll ever have.
Like I said , north south track is a good place too start , but don't get too carried away till your confident using a compass too get back too where you started . Your either going too head east or west too return too the track so its not rocket science , just don't panic and leave yourself plenty of time too return.
Spook has a good point about wounding critters with the bow , perhaps you just spend some time in there with a camera until you start finding some good country .
The archery club sounds good , but the nearest bow hunters club would be a better idea.

Originally Posted by mohawk

Id stick with just a compass and topo map .
My gps has a hard time keeping up and if your just going a wee way off the track the compass is by far the best friend youll ever have.
Like I said , north south track is a good place too start , but don't get too carried away till your confident using a compass too get back too where you started . Your either going too head east or west too return too the track so its not rocket science , just don't panic and leave yourself plenty of time too return.
Spook has a good point about wounding critters with the bow , perhaps you just spend some time in there with a camera until you start finding some good country .
The archery club sounds good , but the nearest bow hunters club would be a better idea.

Will do!
I found this organization called bowhunters society.
I'm planning to join them. It was pretty hard to move around off track with all the thick vegetation and my bow keep snagging to all sorts of thing.
Next week I will go deeper into the wood where I found the droppings.
Hopefully I will find some deer trails with foot prints next times.

Originally Posted by GNAR

Will do!
I found this organization called bowhunters society.
I'm planning to join them. It was pretty hard to move around off track with all the thick vegetation and my bow keep snagging to all sorts of thing.
Next week I will go deeper into the wood where I found the droppings.
Hopefully I will find some deer trails with foot prints next times.

The crap you are snagging on is probably supple-jack...the Kaimai's are notorious for it...but then the deer frequent some of the worst country known to man.

Originally Posted by Spook

The crap you are snagging on is probably supple-jack...the Kaimai's are notorious for it...but then the deer frequent some of the worst country known to man.

Yep that's the one.
I hate those vines. when I take one off the bow there is another one snagging on to the bow.

Originally Posted by Gibo

One more bit of advise if i can mate, don't go off the track in the Kaimais if you don't have navigating gear or skills. We want to hear about your first success with your bow, not that you have gone missing
Start slow and start at the basics

yep i will do that
By the look of it, I think deer comes very near to the track.
I found dropping 5 meters from the track and found fresher darker looking dropping just 10 meters away.
Good signs!

wait till you get 15mtrs from the track

20 metres will probably be an overnighter

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rPBHqhBccRk

Fantastic footage Mohawk.

Bloody good skills there,

Great vid Mohawk, i find it hard enough with a rifle never mind a bow!!!!!!!

I really like that video mohawk. I like this one too.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mv9NyEU8r3Q

Holy crap that video was AWESOME.

And to the new fulla, keep it up mate, keep getting out there but please also be careful. And keep up the trip reports! Your nativity (sp?) is quite charmingly funny, you remind me a big of "a good keen man".


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Good head on that one Rusky