looking wet and warm for that week ..... my pick would be the week ( tues -fri)after easterQuote:
Originally Posted by superdiver
looking wet and warm for that week ..... my pick would be the week ( tues -fri)after easterQuote:
Originally Posted by superdiver
Only 1 roar heard yesterday and know 3 others that went to different blocks and no action.
Been nothing like last year, cant work out if its been (been abit of moaning around week ago and some before) or its going to be late roar.
Have only heard stags this roar when i got them going my roaring at them, last year they were all going nuts and no need to roar ...its very strange year
We heard nothing in Pureora today, but were a bit late to the carpark.
Other hunters we met said it's been quiet, one guy had some replies in the early hours this morning, but not really going off, same guy saw 3 hinds but no stag with them. Another guy said he had one stag going quite well for a while.
I was in the Pureoras from Friday night until this morning. Yesterday morning and this morning I had some back and forth roaring but it was probably just other hunters. The roars sounded a bit tinny so suspect the roars weren't a real stag.
This morning while sitting quietly on a ridgeline just after day break we saw a stag and a hind walking along. He wasn't that flash looking and we were deep in the thick stuff so I shot the hind for meat as she was small enough to be carried out whole from where we were.
Yesterday down in a gully we saw a hoof print that was about as wide as my palm so there must be a big boy walking around there somewhere. Unfortunately someone else will probably get to shoot him in a couple of weeks once the roar kicks off properly!
I was in the Kaimais today (Tauranga side) and we got onto one, roaring relatively hard. Good to get close, mucked it up (I hoped I could roar him out to us, should’ve just gone straight in, he kept moving away) but good first hunt in a new spot. Encouraging, I’ll be back.
I was in the tauranga side too, didn't have any roaring in my area but had a bit of moaning going on just before first light and after sundown. Plenty of deer in the area.Quote:
Originally Posted by Matt308
Bit of noise first thing Saturday in pureora. He was pretty shitty but moving around and then shut up. I suspect it wasn't his first rodeo.
Quiet otherwise. Hope for some colder nights for next weekend.
Shot a hind and pig on farmland in evening.
Plenty of sign off the beaten track where we were too, bloody good to see. Stag was roaring at approximately 11am.
Attachment 193985 saw this in Dannevirke yesterday. A 12 and a scrubby 8.
Attachment 194003Got some Timber in the tarauas over the weekend they were going pretty good on Saturday day time, not so much on Sunday but there is some strange shit going on with this years roar, def not a traditional one.
They learn to shut pretty fast in Pureora...Quote:
Originally Posted by Longrun
Was in the sout ruahines overnight and was very quiet,got lucky and heard a moan and had nice 10 pointer pop up only a few metres in front of me an the dog a few minutes later as we came out of a creek onto his run he must of bin going back and forth no hinds with him thoAttachment 194009
Just out of 5 days in the Te Piri block (southern Kaimanawas) and they were regularly heehawing there, but no single calls and stayed deep in the bush which was corn flake dry, virtually impossible to stalk even in bare feet. It was stupid hot in the days still, we were in shorts and singlets and even swimming in the Mangamaire, for perspective.
North Wairarapa/Pahiatua just getting going. Roared up a spiker last evening (he lives) and another stag unseen going well. Up to now, nothing. Very high temps for the area. 22 yesterday.
It's warm as here in the Hawkes Bay, 27-28 here the last two days.
I was in the northern Ruahines on Sunday and there were a few stags going, but only just starting, most not going properly. Called one young 6-8 pointer into 15-20 yards, my newbie hunter mate was with me and had the rifle, he messed up and had the safety on, almost pulled the trigger out of my rifle! So the stag lives, prob just as well as his antler length and width showed potential. Heading back in on friday for a couple of nights, hoping they are well into the swing of it by then.
i'm doing 4 days in the bush next week, tuesday and wednesday have the potential for a fair bit of rain. I'll still go in and the forecast will likely change by then but i'm wondering what the roar is like in wet weather? Will it have much impact on stag behaviour?
Somehow I don't think wet weather will put off a horny male animal from performing horny behaviour. :PQuote:
Originally Posted by Louie
im hunting in a similar area,tararuas Behind a farm between pahiatua and Eketahuna,the front country is silent but pop over the back and they are going alright.Quote:
Originally Posted by Tahr
Are you hunting front country stuff mainly?I have a feeling our farm edge boys aren't gonna really get going this year, last year they went beserk though.
Interesting thread. Back to pureora again tomorrow.
Me too if I can drag my butt out of bed at 2:30am.Quote:
Originally Posted by Longrun
The stags were going off in my spot on the 7th of April 1994, hopefully they are doing the same 28 years later!
Took the boat up the top of South Arm Te Anau with @Sako851 the other day and we checked out a likely looking valley. Typical fiordland stuff, looked nice and accessible on topo and google earth etc but it was a whole different ball game once into it! We had two stags roaring at each other one afternoon but couldn’t close the gap on them due to wind then next day had one sneak right in on us (not roaring at all) to about 15yds but he got the jump on me, I was staring intently at the spot I thought he was about to appear in before realising he was standing about 10yds to the left and downhill and had pegged me so as I moved rifle around he decided to high tail it out of there, had nightmares all that night about missed opportunity but that’s hunting. Pretty quiet really there would have been a fair few deer around us where we had the boat parked at night and no roaring heard. Pretty big days put in and no cigar but that’s what makes the successful trips all the better! Good to meet another good bugger from the forum and I’m sure we’ll get some more hunting done together when opportunity arises. Will be back in Te Anau on Friday night to take another forum member into wapiti block and I have another area I want to check out and hopefully stags are a bit more fired up.
rain is good if its not heavy or driving in, the stags will more than likely be more active if its a nice rain and stalking in the rain is good it cancels out a lot of your noise.Quote:
Originally Posted by Louie
Mates up the Molesworth for 4 days, yesterday said stags roaring good, got a 10 pointer and having another go today.
Not much actgion around anywhereive been in last week. Certainly nothing like last roar...very poor this year.
Kaikouras 4 day hunting comp recently must of went great.
82 stags weighted in, biggest 171kg
Just walked through a fair chunk of the middle ruahines 2-8th. 4th April was pretty good but overall it was more quiet than not. Stags roaring just enough to advertise themselves but not going berserk.
You got that right, all about how good your private land is that competition. And you can guess what happened to most the 80 odd stags weighed in after being in the warm sun getting fly blown while the hunters got pissed. Raised a lot of money for charity though.Quote:
Originally Posted by Mohawk .308
Just come back from the bottom of South Westland
There for 2 weeks
Heard fark all
Best we saw was a scrubby 8
Base was 1100m hunting down into several big catchments
Roaring on the Coastal side though
But at all times of the day
Still 22 degrees at 11 am second week of April at 1100 m might have had something to do with it
I would say a big percentage of them would be shot where you can drive to them.Quote:
Originally Posted by Mohawk .308
Prob lots shot shotlighting and by thermal in paddocks ....doubt much hunting actually went on but it is what it is.
82 is alot in 4 days but plenty on private land there so no surprise. 60 boars weighted in also.
competitions bring out the very worst in the hunting community.....I couldve put harvesting in there just as easily.Quote:
Originally Posted by Puddleduk
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Got out for a couple nights last weekend in northern southland. Managed to by far get my biggest stag to date, couldn't believe it. Dropped him off at the taxidermist yesterday. Stags were going off everywhere and saw an excess of 35 deer bush hunting!! Definitely too many around down here now.
Nice.if he's a bush stag he is the real deal Holyfield!Quote:
Originally Posted by kiwigreen
Certainly weren't roaring in the pureoras where I was or in Clements today.
Roaring in the kaimais today but life and death to get to them so just enjoyed the to and fro
been a few coming out of pureora. I've screwed up a couple of stalks.Quote:
Originally Posted by superdiver
Stags roaring but not responsive.
Rolling the dice again down waioeka this weekend.
Unfortunately didnt get to hear the elusive fallow croak while I was out yesterday evening and this morning. Maybe I was on the wrong end of the blue mountains, or too low? I like being lower in the gullies. Plenty of morepork, nice to hear them.
I heard another hunter take a shot at around 6.30pm somewhere in the distance right before I got myself a little spiker.
No noise here yet. I have heard whispers around the place that the odd one is starting up but I swear there people out there that either have audio illusions or just plain talk shit when the roar/rut is nearingQuote:
Originally Posted by JessicaChen
Ah, at least I know it wasn't just me not hearing anything. And here I was thinking I was late for the croak.Quote:
Originally Posted by Ryan_Songhurst
I heard what may have been a couple of croaks from the carpark on Saturday morning, but we heard nothing during 7.5 hours in the bush. It is supposedly the peak of the fallow rut up here around the 10th April. Even the scrapes don't seem to have been opened up properly yet. Plenty of thrashed silver ferns so the bucks are around.
Just out of bush today to dry out. Got hit by that wx bomb. Stags going off 8&9th. Quieter last couple of days. Wx will help
The front country stags in tararuas around Eketahuna area have finally wound into action last couple of days ,I was thinking they weren't going to go.about 9 days later than last year.
Maybe the best is yet to come lads-get ready for a late roar!
Heard croaking in the Armstrong last weekend three different bucks ,mate got onto two fighting in Tramways he shot a White BuckQuote:
Originally Posted by JessicaChen
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