Thread: Spring tops

Originally Posted by hispeedlodrag

Thanks for the tip, I was thinking that a mid-November Ruahine mission was in order, but since I'm a crap bush hunter I might delay.

Just get out at walk the bush, lots of practice makes for a good hunter and shooter, sus out where the animals are and learn off you mistakes.

Here’s a old barren hind shot the other day at 1000m ASL on a clearing. The grass has been growing a while in this area. There was 5 of them bedded down together but she was the skinniest. There was no way way of stalking onto them because of the wind and terrain so shot across the gully from them at 260m with the 300 blackout.

There is fairly good growth on the flats and lower parts of the slips.
Deer numbers were low but they were coming out on dusk.
This is the eastern Ruahines last weekend.


I'd say its still a bit cold for much new growth on the tops, even in sunny places, so they will have winter behaviour higher up. We saw a stag still in hard antler.
Go now. Go low.