Victory! (First Deer)

Great work mate, enjoyed your story. Congratulations on your first Deer!

Beaut hunt there and well done on your first deer. River crossings like that are always risky. Pays to lock arms over shoulders and wade over together with shoes on. Sucks getting wet feet/shoes but its so easy to roll an ankle or lose your footing and damage yourself rendering an early end to your hunt.

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Originally Posted by Rusky

Beaut hunt there and well done on your first deer. River crossings like that are always risky. Pays to lock arms over shoulders and wade over together with shoes on. Sucks getting wet feet/shoes but its so easy to roll an ankle or lose your footing and damage yourself rendering an early end to your hunt.

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Yeah we did that with the crossing. We're in a predicament now because if we go back there I'd love to cross to get in, but then it's two days to dry the boots out, or a night with them by a fire which will probably damage them. (Just bought new boots).

I guess we could wear old pairs across and carry new ones, then dump the old ones and pick them up on the way back. Might do that actually, as we can nearly drive to the river.

Good shit mate and congrats on your first redskin :)
You must have been shitting yourself when the mrs leg was stuck. Lucky you were able to hulk out and move it :thumbsup:

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Originally Posted by MattyP

Yeah we did that with the crossing. We're in a predicament now because if we go back there I'd love to cross to get in, but then it's two days to dry the boots out, or a night with them by a fire which will probably damage them. (Just bought new boots).

I guess we could wear old pairs across and carry new ones, then dump the old ones and pick them up on the way back. Might do that actually, as we can nearly drive to the river.

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What are your new boots? If they are leather fill them with bees wax (Snoseal). Stops the leather saturating.

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Originally Posted by gadgetman

What are your new boots? If they are leather fill them with bees wax (Snoseal). Stops the leather saturating.

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Scarpa Kinesis Tech GTX's....what a mouthful. I see that Scarpa recommend their own product (surprise surprise) for the leather. Don't know if you can get it in NZ though, so i'll be looking at other stuff if I bother at all. Does anyone even bother regularly treating their Scarpa's? Seems like a bit of a marketing ploy to me.

As mentioned, next time we will just cross this river in gumboots then stash them somewhere for on the way back. Will carry other footwear across and then wear it in dry.

Wifes ankle is still playing up a bit, so she's off to the doctor today to see if she needs x-rays.

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Originally Posted by eve

good stuff, that is one deer you will never forget. I still remember my first deer like it was yesterday not 35yrs ago. if you can it is best to let it hang over night and set, if you can't take the whole animal the best cuts are the back steaks, eye fillet and back legs the rest is only good for sausage.

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Nothing wrong with a good venison stew or venison pie, been having some delicious ones on the cold nights made from some nice shoulder and neck meat, heaps of feeds there if you can carry it out...


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Excellent result and a good write up, kudos to your wife for being out there and doing it.