Thread: what are people thinking the start date of the roar will be .... ?

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

Originally Posted by Mohawk .308

I always wonder how the hell they get those big stags out whole, a lot of them must be shot on farmland where they can get a Ute or quad to them.

I would say a big percentage of them would be shot where you can drive to them.
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.

Originally Posted by Puddleduk

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.

competitions bring out the very worst in the hunting community.....I couldve put harvesting in there just as easily.

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.

Originally Posted by kiwigreen

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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!

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

Originally Posted by superdiver

Certainly weren't roaring in the pureoras where I was or in Clements today.

been a few coming out of pureora. I've screwed up a couple of stalks.
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.

Originally Posted by JessicaChen

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 nearing

Originally Posted by Ryan_Songhurst

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 nearing

Ah, at least I know it wasn't just me not hearing anything. And here I was thinking I was late for the croak.

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!

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.

Heard croaking in the Armstrong last weekend three different bucks ,mate got onto two fighting in Tramways he shot a White Buck

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