Thread: What happens to spikers in the Roar?

Originally Posted by Makros

I'm heading out in the roar this year with some friends, I have no interest in antlers so I'll just head off in the opposite direction and shoot any hinds I come across. Doubt there's a shortage where we're going and good meat even that time of year.

Trip was a bit earlier than I thought, but a bit of thinning was under taken none the less. 8 Hinds/fawns down in the Lake Sumner area would have been double but I hung up the rifle after the second night to guide in a couple of friends from overseas to their first deer. But someone else had been putting in the good work up there too and I found 5 hinds shot to waste from sometime in the last week or so.

Will throw a few photos together later. Managed to recover all hind legs and back steaks except for the last hind as I was worried about weight coming out on the helicopter so just back steaks were taken. Distributed most of the fawn and yearling back steaks across myself and friends stomachs over the week which was bloody tasty after the cold evenings glassing and hunting. Most of the rest of the meat was distributed across some friends in Christchurch on Saturday and I still put down a $20 to get the over weight chilly bin (which was 2/3 empty) home this morning on the plane.
I think a 50L chilly bin jammed with venison and a large box also full of it must have totalled to at least 70kg of meat pulled out.

Shoot a few hinds between the stags this year fellas the numbers out there are too high pretty much everywhere.

Side note - there was a pair of hunters in the area that I had a chat to on Monday night as I spotted their tent as I was coming back through the valley after shooting a few in a clearing in the bush. I heard they got flown out after one got injured so if you're on here I hope it wasn't too bad and sounds fortunate that you must of had an inreach device to communicate with the helicopter company.