Thread: Understanding how to approach deer turf- recommendations for media?

Originally Posted by Trout

Good N west wind in arounding clearings iv walk that close to deer.Couldv hit them over the head with the rifle,and im no twinkle toes.

I experienced that today with goats. Would be nice if deer were as easy to get up close to as goats though haha, or maybe they can be and I just havent tried enough yet.

Originally Posted by Pav

Another vote for the Lentle and Saxton books.
There are alot of great New Zealand hunting books with the Lentle and Saxton series in a league of their own in terms of informative guide style books, however some of the content is a little outdated because they were written in the 90s but the primary concepts and teachings are still relevant. "Red deer in NZ- a complete hunting guide" (which is the only book in the series still available new as a reprint, have a look on trademe. The others are harder to come by and fetch good money) and coupled with "New Zealand hunters companion" should see you right. Then if you want to go further down the rabbit hole there is "stalking the seasons round - a year round guide to hunting deer in New Zealand" which is probably the hardest and most expensive book in the series to come by... currently 2x listed on trademe sitting at $100 each and "alpine hunting in New Zealand" if chasing Chamois and Tahr through the alps floats your boat.

A few of these books are available at the local library, even the more expensive ones, so I may borrow them and maybe later purchase.

Originally Posted by ZQLewis

have a listen to the Cam Speedy interview on the Educated Hunter Podcast. I've been hunting on and off since the mid 1980's and I learned a lot from that one.
As others have noted, bush hunting is way hard, to make you feel better I for one have never truly shot a deer bush hunting <15mtrs , seen a few, heard a number, but most of the ones I have put down have been bush margins, clearings, tracks, river flats, dawn to 11am or dusk, or above the tree line.

I will listen to that at work, thanks. And yeah, im starting to realize that i shouldn't feel too bad about not getting fallow from blind bush stalking in the blueys. Only had two visits, need to learn the country.